This is just the type of activity I love to do with my girls. Simple, unique and do-able. And in my opinion, anything with the name "Klutz" on it is going to be top quality. So, when I was contacted to try out Glossy Bands Bracelets with my six-year-old daughters, I jumped all over it.
And we are hooked!
The instruction manual is amazingly easy to use and everything you need is in the kit. There are so many clever patterns to choose from, four colors of gel, and clear plastic strips to use as a guide.
The bracelets were super fun to make and turned out beautifully. The hardest part was waiting for them to dry overnight. Now the girls wear their creations with great pride and wonder.
This one minute video about Glossy Bands sums the project up perfectly.
The very best part is that I'm giving away three Glossy Bands Kits to three lucky readers of this blog. Leave a comment telling me about one of your favorite childhood activities. I'll announce the three winners on Friday morning. I hope you win!
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i loved making jewelry as a kid! would LOVE to do these with my girls:)
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I can just see using this with my granddaughter. She is loving crafting just like I do. That makes me a happy camper. Thanks.
Cheryl Sims
As a kid, I loved making paper roll-up beads with magazine pages, glue and a pen to wind them around.
I was a big reader as a kid, and my daughters are, too. They would love to do this!
I loved using household items to stamp into playdough when I was a kid. Mom would put out all sorts of "stuff" and we would stamp and restamp for hours. I loved knowing I could change it over and over.
As a child a loved to pretend. Loved to play like I was a school teacher teaching students.
These look really cool, and if you like 'em, I'm sure they are great. I likes making jewelry with the woven plastic laces when I was little. Are those still around?
What a cool activity! My girls would be thrilled to make these (so would I)! :D
There are so many things I enjoyed as a child. The one that comes to mind is making those pot holders from those strips of cloth on a plastic weaving frame. I recently picked some up for my kiddies to try.
Thanks!
We spent a whole week last summer making fimo creations using a pasta maker. We ended up with beautiful bowls and necklaces.
I loved to make friendship bracelets and play-doh. :)
I loved making friendship bracelets with colored string and shrinky dinks were always fun too. Friendly Plastic was big when I was around 10 or 11 and we used to make earrings and hair barettes with it.
These look fun!
I loved making friendship bracelets! I had a little basket full of different color threads, I took it everywhere :-)
My favorite thing to do was ride my bike. We lived in the country, my nearest neighbor was a mile away and she was my best friend. We wore out our bike tires traveling the road between each others houses!
Favorite childhood craft was baking Christmas ornaments. I really wish I could remember what they were called. You started by placing the metal shape on a cookie sheet and adding colored plastic beads. Once your design was complete, bake and let cool. You then had a beautiful stained glass ornament. My mom recently found some while preparing to sell my grandparents house and my kids got to experience what I did as a child.
What a great activity!!!
My favorite thing to do as a kid was ride my bike!
I loved to have a lemonade stand anytime I could. What a fun memory!
Friendship bracelets were my favorite thing to make growing up. And now I have a daughter that seems to be following in my foot steps. She is six also.
I loved playing with the fisherprice people and all their stuff, the house, the western barn thing and stuff like that. :)
Shrinky Dinks. Definitely Shrinky Dinks.
I loved making daisy crowns and hollyhock dolls.
What a great product!! Love it!
We loved making Shrinky Dinks when I was little!! Remember those??
I loved sidewalk chalk...anything at all that had to do with it.
Paper dolls! You know... the kind in a chain? I thought I was such big time when I figured out how to do that. My five year old hasn't quite gotten the hang of it yet, but I think we would have a grand time with these bracelets!
I loved crafting with my mom and sister. Clay and papier mache were our favorites.
These look like so much fun! My daughter would love them! As for my favorite childhood activity...clay! I've always loved clay...still do!
My FAVORITE childhood memory is making snowcones in our Snoopy Snow Cone Machine. Sometimes we had "tea" snowcones or even "water" snowcones -- depending on what we had around the house. Shaved ice made me a happy girl!
LOVE these bands -- looks like a lot of fun!!!
Oh these look so neat I can tell my daughter would love it already!!! One of my favorite things to make/do when I was a kid was shrinky dinks.
As a child, one of my favorite activities was my Lite Brite!
this looks like so much fun! i'm sure my six year old daughter (and maybe even her older brother) would love this!
My girls would absolutely LOVE this activity! As a young girl, I loved to make those funny little potholders with the rubberband-type fabrics (sorry...I have no idea what their "real" name is!).
Reading. Still is, come to think of it :) My four year old is just starting basic phonic readers and the look in her eyes when she is reading gets me SO excited!
I loved making things with Perler beads when I was little.
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I loved baking. Cookies, cupcakes, you name it. I still love to bake with my kiddos.
These look so fun! My girls would love them. When I was little, I loved drawing make-up, cutting it out and pretending it was real. I was so obsessed with make-up! :)
I liked making shrinky dinks. Remember those?
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these look like so much fun!
as a kid, i loved making things like plastic lanyard keyrings, friendship bracelets, macrame plant holders and spirographs, a true child of the 80's!
I loved working in the garden with my grandpa when I was a kid.
I LOVED making friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss. I have no idea how to do it now, but I made lots of them back then. My 5.5 year old daughter would love this!
painting rocks and putting fun googlie eyes on them :)
I loved playing outside when I was a kid. Picking blackberries was the best time in the world!
Stephenie
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My brother and I drew our own superheroes and made up their powers :)
I made a lot of necklaces as a child, and lots of time making roads in the dirt in the summertime for my younger siblings. Blocks and Silly Putty. We were poor, but we had lots of fun.
Making those iron-bead things... I don't remember their offical name, but they were fun! :)
I also loved making the iron bead things, though I do remember trying to iron one myself one time and burning my finger. :(
Basically any craft or anything I could come up with was good for me. I would build entire buildings and "streets" out of wooden pieces, popsicle sticks and small cardboard boxes.
We would cut up old pattern books for paper dolls. So many options!
Those look like FUN! I loved to watercolor when I was a kid.
I loved making baby doll blankets with my grandmother when I spent a week with her in the summer. She was sick with heart disease (genetic disorder), BUT she still took the time to teach me how to sew little blankets for my dolls. :-)
It's hard to choose my FAVORITE activity (there were so many fun ones...and I was never bored), but I think my #1 was playing Sardines with the neighbor kids! :)
This is very cool! Unfortunately this fun girly stuff wasn't available when I was a kid (in Finland :D). I loved playing "pretend". I made "homes" in the nearby forests with my friends and pretended we were moms, dads, kids with pets...
My four sisters and I LOVED to color in color books. My stepmom colored right along side us with her own pack of sharp Crayons often. We shared tips on shading and put music on. Good stuff. I gotta go call my sister now :)
My cousin and I spent one whole summer collecting bottle caps, hammering them down and making jewelery out of them. I wish I still had them!
I loved making beaded bracelets! :)
I would love to try these new bracelets out with my 2 girls!!!!
Planting seeds it is a project that keeps on giving.
We had cookouts in the woods often during the summer, and came home through the woods after dark - using flashlights.
oh there are so many crafts that my Mom did with my sister and I. I think my favorite would be the apple doll!! Loved carving the face and then watch it turn into a very very old lady!.
So Fun! Please pick me!!! :o)
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I loved having tea parties with my stuffed animals.
What a fun craft idea!! I loved spending the summers swimming with friends.
These look like mega fun! I wish I had something like that back in my childhood days. I used to roller skate to the point where the only time the skates were off was during school and during bedtime :)
I loved going outside and pretending to have a 'brick cleaning factory'. I'd scrub the bricks with chemicals I'd find in the garage (oops!) and rinse them off to reveal clean brick. I also loved 'playing house' in homes that were under construction (oops again!) I guess the lack of supervision didn't kill me!
Love the glossy band activity - my daughter and I would love this! Thanks for the opportunity!
I loved when dad would bring home a huge box for us to make a play house out of, complete with a cut out door and windows. We would spend hours decorating it and days more playing inside it.
I loved doing paper mache and my mom hated it. Now I know the feeling :)
those are darling! What a fun product! As a child I loved to read outside in a tree-- and make barbie beds out of grass and leaves...
I loved any kind of imagination games. I even had pretend pigs that I would go outside and feed daily..one day I even told my Mom I was headed outside to feed them!
I loved playing "Little House on the Prairie"....especially making my own "soup" and "oatmeal" from weeds.
I loved to make Shrinky Dinks and enjoy making them with my kids now. :c) I also loved making the friendship bracelets with embroidery thread. Funny how everything is coming back!
One of my favorite childhood memories involved making friendship bracelets on the way to and from from school on the school bus...
(I was always so good at putting off any kind of school work!)
I loved making and trading friendship bracelets! Sometimes I think about trying to teach my daughter to make them now, but I'm not sure I could remember anymore (although, there's probably a YouTube video out there for it!)
Oh, I also made gum wrapper chains!
loved making God's eyes....so fun!
my 3 girls would LOVE these!!!
I like anything to do with craft....knitting,sewing you name it!!
These look fun.
I really liked doing shrinky dinks.
I also loved making elaborate forts and water messes. Hmm, maybe it's hereditary.
This looks like fun! I loved making friendship bracelets and beaded friendship pins. This book/activity reminds me of those fun times. Fun, fun, fun!!!
POTHOLDERS!!! My cousin and I made them feverously and sold them for 50 cents door to door. We took our business very seriously and I have past this trade down to my two girls, they don't sale them , they give them to grandparents as gifts:)
Wow - this looks really fun. As a child, I love making the friendship bead pins. Where you put beads on a safety pin and then wear on your shoelace.
Cheers - Rika from Utah
When I was little I made jewelry with a friend and sold it to our neighbors! I LOVED making jewelry! I must honestly say, I'm not sure if everything was ever delivered, but we did have fun!
I'm getting ready to homeschool my daughter this next fall and she saw these on the computer and said, MOM, MOM I WANT TO DO THIS! So I thought I would try to surprise her for this fall!
I loved doing craft projects as a child and still do as an adult. I loved making those braided barrettes with 3 or 4 colored ribbons, i had them in every color. I also loved friendship bracelets.
My Oh MY !! Just in time for summer. My daughter absolutely loves to make stuff and this would be a perfect thing to give to her too. thanks for the chance.
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