5 Arts & Crafts for Ideas for Kids bendaroos Review

I bought two (2) sets of fof Bendaroos from Walgreens for my kids, ages 9 and 11 at the time for Christmas. They did not last but a week before I found them all over the house. First of all they are VERY skinny and perhaps 3 to 4 inches long. It takes an awful lot of them to make anything near what they show on the commercials and even with 2 full sets we could not quite build some of them.

Second of all, they are extremely stickly (which I guess is how they stick to things as advertised). Stick they do! They do stick to walls and most everything and I do mean everything! On our windows they left behind a mark from what ever they were treated with. Same thing on our walls (which only are painted with a flat paint). They left some kind of residue on the paint that was almost oil like. Forget it around carpet! Oh my gosh, anything other then indoor/outdoor carpet (and even that too) they get stuck in the fibers terribly. You are left with a very stick hairy Bendaroo then! Yup, if there is any kind of debri around these things pick it up and cling to it for dear life and will not release for anything! Hairs (YUCK!) picks that up so best not have pet hairs, we don't.

Finally, we found them not to be very BENDEROOISH at all. They were quite stiff to work with actually, even with warming them up a bit thinking that would help them. They very much reminded me of crayon consistancy but sticky, sticky, sticky!

I would NOT recommend these for children. I've been trying to think of what they could be used for and maybe, just maybe an adult might find a use for them in an art project but DEFINITELY NOT for children (and parents who would like to keep their nerves in tact trying to clean up after them).