I have creative children. How wonderful I hear you say. Well yes ,it is. With my first son, now aged 12, I was the doting first time mother keen to encourage his creative exploits from an early age. For his first Christmas aged 6 months, he sent the whole family hand made Christmas cards, complete with co-ordinating paint and glitter effects. (interestingly now aged 12, he has turned out to be the least artistically inclined of all the children, though I am sure that my early attempts to encourage his talent have nothing to do with this.) Once my second child came along I was a little more tired and a little less enthusiastic about possible mess making ...  Read the complete review

Bendaroos are construction-type / craft toys for kids, a bit like a cross between Plasticine and Lego. They take the form of maybe 20cm lengths of string, coated in a skin of brightly coloured, sticky wax-like material. They are highly flexible - and sticky, and can be made to stick to one another as well as being bent back on themselves and rolled / stuck into spirals, flower shapes, etc. They're also reusable (to some extent) and anything you've made from them can be unravelled quite simply and re-formed into new shapes. The Bendaroo strings are available in various sizes of packet - from the basic £5 kit that contains about 80 pieces in a range ofseven ...  Read the complete review

Alongside the Dsi Nintendo my daughter brought herself out of her birthday money, she discovered that she has a bit left over to spend, she was over the moon to find the product I will now review, as it did say in the television advert we had seen prior to going to Toys R Us, that these were only available to buy through a dedicated website. The product I will now review is - "Bendaroos" These are advertised as the "amazing flexible building sticks", they are shown on the advert as being the ideal thing to build 3D pictures and models, sticking to virtually any surface with them actually encouraging the child to build a picture ...  Read the complete review

I first came across these Bendaroos a few years ago now. My niece was at my parents busy making something hunched over the table and being a child at heart I was keen to see what it was that was so interesting! Since then, Bendaroos have featured regularly at my parents house. ==What are Bendaroos?== Bendaroos are described by their maker (Merchant Media) as 'amazing flexible building sticks' and this is basically what they are. Bendaroos are long thin sticks which are about the length of a drinking straw but about a quarter of the width. They come in a variety of colours and they are quite sticky meaning that their main purpose is to use them to make or ...  Read the complete review

Bendaroos are advertised as 'Amazing Flexible Building Sticks', and to some degree this is true- yes, they are sticks, yes, they are flexible, and yes, you can sort of build things with them. The 'amazing' bit might be stretching things a tad! My daughter asked for these for Christmas, I had seen the 'Mega pack' on the argos website for £19.99- it looked a pretty good set for this price. My sister bought it, and I couldn't believe the size of the box- suddenly the price didn't seem so reasonable after all. For what you get, twenty quid seems a bit steep, but i suppose if we're silly enough to pay it?! My daughter (8), couldn't wait to open this, and ...  Read the complete review