The Devil's Handiwork

Bought this for my 6 year old for her birthday. Thought it would be a fun craft for her. Wrong! It was an infuriating craft for me! Where to begin? This is designed for small, elfin fingers. It requires lots of threading of very small plastic beads through unraveling silver thread. I'm embarrassed to say how long it took me to put this together. The most frustrating part was that there is not a single extra piece of anything! Not a single extra thread, sticker or bead. The entire time I was making it I would hear the beads rolling off the table onto the floor and I was thinking, "I hope there are extras!". No. There weren't. At the end I was down on all fours crawling under my dining table looking for beads to complete the job.

Miraculously, I was able to assemble 3 mostly completed flower lights. Then went to hang them in my daughter's room. Guess what? The light comes in 3 settings: Fast strobe light, Slower strobe light and Blinking. Obviously optimal for a peaceful night's sleep to be under a strobe light. The on/off switch is tiny so the child ends up scrunching the entire fragile creation in their hand to turn it off.

Now on to the quality. The bulbs are battery operated and seem ok quality. The rest of of it is pretty flimsy. I will be interested to see how long this lasts.

Overall, a very frustrating experience. Definitely not for any kid under 10 to assemble themselves, definitely not for everyone up to age 97 as the box says.

I will say though, my daughter was thrilled once we hung them up in her room. They look pretty cool in the dark. Apparently tomorrow we will be having a dance party with her new "disco ball lights". Her rating would probably be 5 stars so I've boosted mine a bit to take that into consideration.

What I think would make this toy better is higher quality materials, with extras to account for tiny pieces going missing during assembly, a setting on the bulb where the light can just be on without blinking in a bright and a dimmer version (no need for multiple strobe options), and then an auto-off function once the lights have been on for a certain period of time to conserve battery.