Alex M & M's Candy Wrapper Jewelry
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 9 x 2 inches ; 0.6 ounces
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
- ASIN: B004K1EZD8
- Item model number: 759W
- Manufacturer recommended age: 7 - 12 years
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 8,019 in Toys ; Games (See Top 100 in Toys ; Games)
- 24 inToys ; Games Arts ; Crafts Craft Kits Jewelry
By : Alex Toys
Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Make your child's craft time with Alex M;M's Candy Wrapper Jewelry. Alex has partnered with Terracycle to create this fun jewelry activity, which repurposes unused M;M's candy wrappers that would otherwise end up in landfills. Make bracelets, headbands, and belts with a simple linking pattern. Help the planet and make a fashion statement, too!
M;M's CandyWrapper Jewelry
- Ages: Seven and up
- Requires: Ready to play
At a Glance:
- Upcycled materials become something fashionable
- Comes with over 200 pre-cut wrappers and additional jewelry details
- Simple pattern turns into a shiny, sturdy design
- Helps kids develop crafting skills that will last a lifetime
Personalize Your Design with Different Materials
Candy Wrapper Jewelry uses upcycled M;M's candy wrappers and a simple adhesive and folding pattern to create bracelets, headbands, and belts of varying sizes and designs. Upcycling means finding a new use for a material that would otherwise end up in the trash, and Alex's partnership with Terracycle has made sure that your child is able to take part in that process!
This kit includes over 200 pre-cut, shiny, multicolored M;M's wrappers to give your child's creations some extra flair. Kids can use their imaginations to choose different color combinations and patterns, tie projects together with a suede cord or elastic band, and finish with a bead of their choice.
Fold and Link to Create Your Look
The included assembly instructions make jewelry crafting simple with both visual and written instructions for a thorough description. The pattern includes five steps of wrapper folding per link, and it isn't long before the links begin to form a glossy, sturdy chain. Our testers enjoyed using the glue stick cap as a burnishing tool, but keep an eye on the exposed glue stick, or it will dry out!
Develop Crafting Skill and Sense of Style
While the folding and linking process is fairly straightforward, the repetition of each step and extra details, like burnishing, helps your child to refine his or her crafting skills. These are skills that remain for a lifetime, helping with future crafting projects and problem-solving activities.
What's in the Box
Over 200 pre-cut candy wrappers, glue stick with burnishing cap, hole puncher, 9 suede cords, 9 beads, 4 elastic loops, 30 sticky gemstones, and instructions.
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Save the planet and make a fashion statement, too! Make sweet bracelets, headbands and belts from candy wrappers. Just fold and link! Includes over 200 precut candy wrappers, glue stick with burnishing cap, hole puncher, 9 cords, 9 beads, 4 elastic loops, 30 sticky gems and easy instructions.
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Product Features
- Save the planet and make a fashion statement, too!
- Make sweet bracelets, headbands and belts from candy wrappers.
- Includes over 200 precut candy wrappers, hole puncher, cords, beads, and more!
- Upcycling is when you find a new use for a material that would otherwise end up in the trash
- Imagine and create!
Customer Reviews
My daughter has been trying to figure out how to make things using the candy wrapper technique. This kit was perfect. She's already made 2 bracelets and there are plenty of materials to make several more. She only wishes they would make a kit that would let you make a coin purse.
I love the idea of recycling and reusing materials, but this kit falls short. I remembered making gum wrapper chains when in grade school and thought this would be a great gift for my granddaughter.
The paper is too "slick" and doesn't hold the folds. There's glue and a burnisher included, but that adds a lot of steps. Fold. Burnish. Glue. Fold again. Glue again.
The glue didn't stick! In fact, the instructions recommend putting the folded pieces UNDER A BOOK or heavy object to help flatten them.
The kit could be improved by using a matte or dull paper that is a little thinner.
I plan to return it.
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