To jump up and down on the chocolate coin maker and deny all knowledge?

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What a shite thing it is! An hour to do it and it doesn't even print the foil rope rely.

The 'Tude asks to do it yet I end up doing it all!

Avoid it! Let this be a warning.

Those slushy cups are ace but do not put in dishwasher.

We have the choc lolly maker.
We have the ice cream maker.
We have the boiled sweet maker.

But don't get me started on fucking ORBEEZ.

And what are those abominations called? The ones where you peg tiny plastic beads onto a board/template thingy & then have to iron it to melt it all together. My arm hairs are standing on end just thinking about it.

I see your Playdoh Ice Cream Maker and I raise you this. Even the thought of it makes me go all fingernails down blackboards.

Yep its shit!! so is the ice cream maker AND the smoothie maker - all shit - when will my DP ever learn!

Our slushy cup maker is utter utter utter shite. Forty-eight hours in the freezer on the coldest possible setting with a six-year-old going 'Is it ready yet??' every twelve seconds and all you get at the end is some very cold lemonade with a small lump of ice in the middle of it. There were tears.....

spermy I think that's hama beads? I could be wrong... my ds announced that moon sand is "sprinkled on to earth by aliens" today...yes love, that's the closest you're going to get to the evil crap!

Moonsand is shit, closely followed by moon dough (which seems to be to be moonsand in a different box)

Oh Hama beads are awful aren't they!

If you want slushie there is a science/ experiment thing on you tube where you put a bottle of fizzy in the freezer for a specified time and when you open it it turns to slush in your hands, so cool and it really works! ( sad and easily impressed )

Thank you Tshirt. It would've plagued me for days. I'm now intrigued by moon sand & moon dough. What are these things?

I'm hoping to make amaretto slushies

Spider if you are keen enough try it when DC is in bed or otherwise not around for the first time. It took me a while to get the hang of it.

It takes a lot more strong squeezing than I expected, like 3-4 minutes of it constantly. My DD2 is not strong enough to do it herself, it really needs adult hands I think.

Worth it though. The DDs love it and frozen juice is much better for them than ice cream.

sp if you do the coke/ slushy/ freezer thingy you can add the amaretto after ( I had a voddy& tonic one )

I am talking about those slushy cups, in case it's not obvious

spermy moon sand is supposed to stick together for modelling... it doesn't ,it sticks to your hands,face,clothes and especially carpets..if someone gives you some give it back...unopened

I hear you, and sympathise.

However, I have one word for you. Mousetrap.

Moon sand and moon dough are NOT to be bought if you value your carpets.

None of these things compare to the bastard black crayons color wonder sheets. If your DC's are anything like mine, they rapidly realise that running them under a tap dissolves the black coating into a liquefied substance. That they then drip all over your hallway carpets en route back to their rooms. It NEVER cones out. You could blast a hole in your carpet with a hand grenade, and you'd still have a black patch on the fucking floor underneath!!

Aah pictish mousetrap, me and my sister had that year's (30+!) Ago. We just used to fill the tub with water and throw things in it! Couldn't work it and figured that was the best part

Ds2 yearned for it with all his wee heart, so we bought it for Christmas.
Utterly dreadful is all I can say. It took about 2 hours to build, collapses if you blink anywhere near it, and is ridiculously convoluted to play.
It was quickly hailed as a complete dud, and poor ds2's dreams were crushed.

I love the kids slushie cup. Bacardi and coke slush, whiskey latte slush, all the old spirits lurking in the back of the cupboard are now turned into slushies.
The drink needs to be put into the fridge while the cup is in the freezer for best results.

Hama beads are torture,
"Muuum look at this I've just spent an hour making"

"Waaaaaaaahhh, Muuuuuuuum"
My Hoover thought it was a a Hungry Hippo the Christmas DD got Hama.

Oh god Mousetrap!
DS got it one year, me and DH spent the part of a day, several beers and a whacking great row putting it together. It got played once for about 10 minutes, DS got bored and mithered for Monopoly.
It stayed set up for nearly a year because there was no way in hell it was going to get rebuilt! When we moved it got sent to the charity shop, the Moonsand just got accidentallyonpurpose dropped in the bin...

I have hidden the one ds got since boxing day. He has not asked for it since.

Hama beads forced me to buy a new iron. There are still traces of a boat, a train & a cat on the old one which can now only be used for ironing on name tapes.

My DM got DS the playdoh ice cream maker for Christmas. Of course DS couldn't wait to try it out - at DM's house!

We also have a chocolate coin maker. Please do jump up and down on yours and break it rather than donate it to the school fair for some one like me fool to buy!

My friend had about eleventy-squillion Hama beads, all sorted into loads of different compartments in a Special Box, so she her son could find any colour she he needed, without delay.

One day, one of my children knocked this box over, and I felt obligated to pick up and sort out all the bastarding beads, back into their individual sodding compartments.