To think there's a special place in hell for the designers of these paint pots (pic)

[WorksTheDinerAllDay]

They usually come in children's craft kits or magazines in a strip of about 5 colours complete with a token paint brush. They are impossible to open without using your teeth / a knife / breaking all your nails. They contain a trivial amount of paint that certainly isn't enough for the project they are intended for. By the time you've managed to open each one your child has completely lost interest and moved onto play with something else.

They are up there with those toys that come with 5000 plastic ties to attach them to the box.

And they fall over. Half they time the lid is heavier than the pot so you have to awkwardly balance them against the water glass / scrunched up paper.

Plus like yoghurt pots, sometimes they spit.

Yep they are always unbalanced and falling over. Plus you get a handful of shit colours and nowhere to mix them so you always end up with slopped on blocks of colour and some brown smudgy bits. And then are expected to say ‘oh Daniel that plaster of Paris Spider-Man is lovely’ when in fact it is shit.

Omg!
I didnt realise you could separate them.
I've been keeping them stuck together and they keep tipping over and spilling.
Making them even harder to use!

@nikkylou yes! My hands got coated trying to open them and half of them tipped over.

Wee blob of Vaseline underneath will keep them still

Hellish. Totally agree. Last set we got half were dried out and the other half watery.

I bought a toy digger for my nephew last week that was screwed to the box. Cable ties are okay because I usually have something to cut them with but screws are a special kind of annoying.

😂😂😂 you made me laugh. So true!

Am I the only one trying to work out where it's a map of?

They are up there with those toys that come with 5000 plastic ties to attach them to the box
Up until the DDs were teenagers, DH’s job, every Christmas Day, was to sit in his armchair in the corner of the room and await each and every box that was unwrapped by them. He’d then use scissors/hammer/screwdriver/Stanley knife to de-box and de-plastic tie them all in turn and dispose of the mountain of packaging. They’d be up at about 6am opening them and he’d still be there, in the corner with his glass of Champagne regularly topped up, when the Queen came on. He always accepted his lot graciously

@nocoolnamesleft it's one of those PVC tablecloth things that protects the table from the miniscule amount of paint in those pots.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney sounds like my DH. He spent last Christmas day putting together thousands of Playmobil items as well.

I fucking hate them with a passion, here they go straight in the bin and we get our own paints out.

If yours ever manage to do a pottery one that doesn’t look like a complete car crash, colourless spraypaint over the too finishes them off nicely. We did a trolls one last week, she looked so awful I felt sorry for her.

I know it would be them! You have to leave your children to grapple with them - they taught me valuable life lessons as a child.

Yes, but being bought a craft kit with its own paint pots is so exciting! I used to love those.

I think there's a way to open them . Can't remember exactly because it's been a while since my kids have had a set like that.
I think you pinch the two bits of plastic together ( the bits at the front of the lid) and the lid kind of pops and releases. Dunno if that makes sense but there's definitely an easy way which I figured out after spilling too many of the buggers!