Anyways, Orangie picked out a kit that she'd received for Christmas..the dreamcatcher kit. The girl LOVES dreamcatchers! So I said 'sure! go to it!'. The kit is marked for ages 5+.
When i get it open, she pulls apart the various packages, lays it out, reads instructions, and then looks lost. 'Mom, can you help?'
So I get her started wrapping the ribbon stuff around the metal ring..I then crazy-glue it so it sticks(the included glue was completely solid). Next up is making the web...yeah, that took me 3 tries and over an hour later to get decent looking!! Orangie at this point has completely given up and is cheering me on! lol. The weird silver string stuff is rather hard to work with and sure likes to shred when attempting to put beads on it..and don't even get me started about the instruction to glue the feather to the shred-y string!
ANYWHO, the project got worked on throughout the day and took about 3 hours of an adult working on it. Who in their right mind labelled this ages 5+ ?!
* said product *
* final product! Frustrating but pretty! *
So, my questions are: Have you encountered any ridiculous kits like this? and my other thought was should I have made her do more? I understand the whole giving the child satisfaction of making the product...but I also know that my daughter wanted something that actually resembled a dreamcatcher, and certainly could NOT have made this on her own...
anywho...thoughts?
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Good job Mom! Dream Catchers are a challenge to make! May the love it was made with bring Orangie the sweetest of dreams :)
I honestly think that some of these kits are labelled wrong. Some of them are just to complicated for certain ages. I think if she was having problems in the beginning she might not have wanted to continue.
aww that stinks that you had issues with it.. sometimes I wonder if they really test out the age groupd for these things or just pull a random age from a hat lol
Oh I'm all for letting kids just create their own crafts! That way you know they will succeed and sometimes they surprise you too!
I used to make dreamcatcher earrings... when I was in my teens... :) I have some crafts that I've looked at and known that my daughters aren't ready for, so I've put them away. Or ones that I only pull out when I want to do most of the work for my 4-year-old. :)
I have not encountered that yet... but probably will... that sucks that it was not geared for the ages it said. :(
I stopped buying those kits when I ended up doing them more than the kids did! Because they couldn't do them on their own.
I know some 5 year olds that I would trust to not shove those beads up their noses. I'd say more like 5++ You did a nice job though ;)
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