To want to put out a public service announcement - DO NOT BUY MY KIDS SCIENCE / SLIME KITS

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

God that felt good to shout.

Kids dying to play with her goop and gloop science kit she got last week. Eventually find a bit of time to sit with her and give it a go.

Step One :- mix A solution with B solution, shake for 20 mins then leave to settle for 24 hours

Packs up kit and puts it away.

I fucking hate these kits. Same with the slime making and the bath bomb making. They never work, leave extra mess, and dd just gets annoyed with the fact that the end product isn't anywhere as good as the equivalent that can be bought from the shop for a quid.

So....

If you have a kid you know who loves slime or goop or bath bombs- just buy them slime or goop or bath bombs. Step away from the kits!!!

Ooh I remember making the crystals. They were good. Unlike the little monkey things, what a con

Bath bombs are fun to make (although we don't use kits) because you can choose your own scents/colours and use fun moulds. I quite enjoyed a crystal making kit but it only took about 12 hours and it was fun watching it grow slowly. It didn't teach anyone anything about science but was cute enough. The science kits are usually fairly lame you can have more fun with baking soda and vinegar, alka seltzer and old film tubes, skittles and water, mentos and coke etc

Oh god the slime kit we were given was terrible, never turned into slime and took bloody ages.

I never got a mr frosty as a kid. My mum bought me one for my 21st birthday. It was still shit.

DD got the mr frosty ice cream maker for Christmas few years ago. I warned her not to expect too much. She and her big cousin managed to make ice cream. It tasted like the stuff that’s been in the back of your freezer for a year.

Yesssssss

Same with chocolate making factories etc. Awful awful things.

YABU to suggest buying slime at all. Last Christmas was almost ruined for me whenDN spilled the fucking stuff all over my pale grey sofa. It’s toxic, housewrecking filth.

But I agree about crappy ‘sets’ in general.

I always wanted a science kit when I was growing up. And a toolkit.
Mother obsessed with buying dolls and teddy bears. all the while spouting on about treating my brother and I equally.
And he was allowed to go all night fishing (as a teenager) but I wasn't allowed to go to the nightclub on the beach (that looked out onto the pier where my brother was fishing) unless I agreed to leave early and be met by a parent.

Any gifts requiring parental supervision are a PITA!

Slime, sand and/or chemicals take things to another level though. I once received moons sand from a close friend WITH DC! Seriously worried she secretly hated me.

I made up little slime kits for my whole class one year. I bought little jars off amazon gave them a little bag full of PVA, bag of aldi washing gel and some sequins and glitter in a bit of clingfilm, you tip the whole lot together and mix and its done. Worked out about 30p a child, with enough left over for DD to give some to her friends too.

The children loved it, the parents not so much. Yes its a pain having to sit and do these kits, if they are anything like DD they then get it stuck to the carpet/curtain/cat and you have to clean it up, or you find bath salts stuck to the ceiling (I still have no idea how) but come January when they come back to school I get told about the afternoon of some kit going terribly wrong, or how poor Dad walked to the 24 hour garage to get vinegar for the crystal kit, I rarely hear about the good presents.

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