Just Like Home Ironing Board Set

Advantages: Keep sthe kids entertained for ages
Disadvantages: Little bits sticking to your feet

...Last Christmas my daughter's sister got this for Christmas and as soon as she saw it her face lit up and wanted to make one straight away but I managed to convince her that it would be better to do it later. We have now completed this set and she like it so much she asked for another set for her birthday and again for this Christmas. So what do you get, you get a set of instructions on how to make the butterfly girls, three white boards which can be linked together according to which butterfly girl you are going to make, grease proof paper and 3000 beads, which is enough to make at least one each of the butterfly girls. The beads you get with this sets are midi, which is the medium sized beads. So how do you make the butterfly girls, well first decide which butterfly girl you want to make, put the boards together according... Read review

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Advantages: Hours of fun
Disadvantages: Not cheap

...Most Friday afternoons I visit a friend of mine and we usually talk about all the things one talks about and it passes the time well into the evening. Sometimes of course, the conversation dries up, (my friend has this uncanny habit of forgetting i'm there!) His pc is joined to him! It was such as this that looking around the room I noticed some beads in a bucket that quite intrigued me. My friend has a ten year old daughter and she had been playing with these. After interacting with her, (Ten years old is just about on my level, ) I found out what they were and all about them. They are made by Hama, and are bought in several activity sets, containing a number of coloured beads, different shaped peg boards and ironing cloths to complete your patterns. The beads are about 3/8 of an inch in length... Read review

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Advantages: fun, creative, aid childs development, good quality, fair prices
Disadvantages: not something you want to knock over, can be a bit fiddly if you get small beads

...to the ironing paper for a few seconds using smooth, circular movements. The temperature of the iron depends on the size of the beads you have used, for the mini beads you should set the iron to the wool setting, for the midi beads you should set the iron to the cotton setting and for the maxi beads the iron should be set to the linen setting. As you iron the design the colours of the beads will show through the ironing paper to show that the ironing is completed. It is then advisable to leave the design to cool down for a bit (or it will go squidgy and become ruined and you will also burn yourself…trust me!) Once the design is dried you can remove it from the peg board and voila! You have your design! The pegboards and the ironing paper can be used again for future design but obviously the beads which you have just used wont be able to be used again... Read review

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