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Glossy Bands: Stretchy Bracelets to Share with Your Friends (Klutz) Review

These bracelets are super fun to make and to wear! I'm way older than their intended market (I'm 23), but I still love them, and they're easy enough to make and wear that I'm sure their target market (ages 8 and up) could make them without much trouble. Even my 20-year-old sister had to admit that the novelty aspect of being able to make stretchy bracelets like these, and fastening the flat strips into bracelets simply by sticking the ends together and wearing them for a few minutes (they permanently fuse after about 15 minutes of being warmed by body heat) is cool, even though she wouldn't be caught dead in a home-made brightly colored shiny bracelet. My only complaints are that it only comes with four of the plastic strips to put the gel on (I want to do more at once, without waiting for them to dry first, although it's probably just as well that I couldn't use up all the gel in one go), the plastic strips aren't long enough to make an ankle bracelet (at least for an adult), and so far the refill sets only come with the same four colors of gel (judging by other Klutz products though, if these do well enough they'll start selling more colors eventually).

And I'm hoping the little girl I'm going to be tutoring this summer likes them, cause it would be so easy to make a division problem out of figuring out how many dots it will take to make a bracelet that's the right length for a given wrist! Incidentally, this could also be presented as an issue of counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, or measurement, depending on the age of the child. I'd say it would be possible to sneak some math into making these for at least most elementary school levels, and I think the viscosity of the gel has some potential for older kids, since the gel slowly spreads out after you put it on the plastic, which changes the shape of the bracelet and the way the dots fit together -- that one even threw me off a bit, and I have some three years of college science classes behind me. Of course, it's entirely possible to make the bracelets without thinking about any of the math or science aspects at all, but there is quite a bit of potential as an educational tool if so desired.

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ISBN13: 9781591747307
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Glossy Bands: Stretchy Bracelets to Share with Your Friends (Klutz) Overview

Amazing bracelets you squeeze out of a tube. When we first showed Glossy Bands to girls, it was clear we had a winner. They put the bracelets on and admired the colorful designs. They stretched the bracelets to take them off and watched as they shrank back to their original size. They put the bracelets back on, and that's when things got sticky. Clearly, we were not going to get these bracelets back. Glossy Bands start as a special, non-toxic, acrylic paint. To make one, simply squeeze out dots of color following one of the patterns in the book. Then use the swirling stick to mix the color into fancy designs. Once it’s dry, peel your bracelet up and wrap it around your wrist. You've made your first Glossy Band: a beautiful, durable, completely wearable work of art. Chances are good that you've never seen anything quite like a Glossy Band. We think this book is going to change that. Once word gets around how easy it is to make these deliciously shiny, irresistibly stretchy bracelets, you're going to start seeing them everywhere.

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