Cra-Z-Art Be Inspired Twist N Wear Girls Bracelet Maker Activity Set

Too complex for a child. Needs adult supervision, and that adult had better have a lot of mechanical/craft ability and a lot of patience. Got this for a very bright eight year old girl. Even with her mother's help, the results weren't very good. Both mother and daughter are do it yourself types; very good with projects (both indoors and out), crafts, baking etc. This thing was so confusing, I decided to watch some YouTube videos. The children and the adults in the YouTube videos didn't seem to have much luck, either. Lots of skipping steps and creative editing to skip over the parts that we actually wanted to see. I can rebuild a BMW engine, resurface a swimming pool and replace a compressor on a central air conditioning unit, but I can't make a respectable bracelet on this thing.

This is an item I really didn't like much! It reminded me of those electronic hair braided a from the 90's and 2000's that would leave the hair looking messy and unkempt but was a nice through if it worked. So I tried a few different ways to do the braiding. It I found it very sloppy and messy and to be honest a little ugly. I can imagine a smaller child being impressed with this. For example my 3 year old was excited about the results and maybe possibly a child under 8 years old but this has a recommendation of 8 and is trying to market to that age and older. It would probably be better to learn knots by hand. One end gets ‘knitted' so it won't unravel and when the braid is done, you Tie it off but there's nothing from stopping the other end unraveling so it unfold on itself and becomes loose and starts looking a hot mess. You can see in the photo where it has loosened. I let two other people try it incase it was just me and theirs was messy too. It's a nice idea but Personally I wouldn't recommend it.