Crafty kids (Crayola Friendship Bracelets)

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Product:	Crayola Friendship Bracelets
Date:	28/06/07 (435 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap, fun, easy and great for a rainy day

Disadvantages: None

~~~~~Crayola Friendship Bracelets Aged 5+~~~~~

My daughter received this for her birthday last week and we have both had great fun in making bracelets for her and all her friends at school.


~Company Background~

The company began back in 1880 when the first headquarters were set up in New York City.
Crayola is a brand of crayons and other arts & crafts tools and kits manufactured by Binney & Smith, Inc. The Crayola company was one of the first to make its crayons, chalk, markers, and coloured pencils as well as other writing utensils and artistry tools non-toxic. The first box of Binney & Smith crayons, produced in 1903, sold for a nickel and contained eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black.


~Appearance~

The box is a medium size and is yellow in colour and has a handy yellow handle on the top so it can be carried easily. There are examples of the finished bracelets on the front and down the sides, there is a 3 step diagram on one side. On the back of the box there is a large clear picture showing the contents of the kit.


~Contents~

All of the content come in a vacuumed plastic tray so that once you have opened the individual bags you can place the beads and threads in the compartments so that they don't get mixed you and in a mess.

*40 pony beads - These beads are about 9mm with a 3mm hole. They are pearly pastel colours blue, yellow, pink and purple.

*40 heart and star beads - You get 20 stars about 11mm wide with a 3mm hole. They are blue and yellow. 20 heart beads about 11mm wide with 3mm hole and come in purple and pink.

*Braiding thread- 16 meters 4 meters of each of the colours yellow, pink, blue and purple. Each thread is made of 6 single strands twisted.

*Elastic - There is about 90cm of white elastic.

*Ribbon - You get 70cm of blue ribbon and about the same in yellow ribbon

*10 Foam flower shapes - Which you can thread on to your finished bracelet to make it extra pretty.

*Instruction sheet - The sheet comes in 6 languages including English luckily! It is quite easy to follow with adult help and gives a guide to make six different bracelets.

~ Summary ~

The friendship bracelet kit costs around £4.00 which I think is an excellent price. This is a fantastic present and gave both myself and my daughter a good few hours of fun.

The great thing about this kit is there are simple and more complicated designs to make. Some are just threading beads on elastic and twisting /plating the threads where as others are knotted bracelets which take more time and attention.

Once you have made a bracelet you can either keep it or give it to your friend hence the term friendship bracelets, let your friends wear your piece of art!

Summary: Great little kit and provides hours of fun