John Adams | GEMEX Deluxe Creation Station: Magically sets from gel to gems! | Arts & crafts | Ages 5+

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This Britannica Magazine subscription is an exciting factual magazine for seven to 12 year olds in which you turn the cover and a wild and wonderful world awaits. It is recommended that you wear an apron or protective clothing when using BLOPENS® and that surfaces or surrounding furnishes as protected with old newspaper or similar. If your girls love card games such as Snap and Happy Families they will love these new illustrated playing cards from Sheni and Teni.

On receipt of the product and after scanning over the box I realised that there was a strong chance that I would be creating these jewels in secret when the kids were asleep (I’m not even joking) as it looked fantastic! She has not only loved creating her own gems, decorated in her own unique designs, but has really enjoyed the jewellery making aspect to give her creations to elder sister as well and wearing them herself. When you’re desperately looking for the best presents for eight year old girls, there’s so much on offer, it starts to blow your mind a bit!You can also choose from dinosaurs, woodland animals, farm animals or safari animals as vintage style posters. But it does mean that you don’t need to pick the mould up and you can focus on making one gem at a time. The colour-changing LED can act as a night-light, and a special key in the sound compartment unlocks a special code to discover lots of fun, fairy activities online too. We did two cycles as standard, which wasn’t a huge issue other than it got two very impatient children a little bit fidgety. Decorate it with pretty flowers and leaf garland, add toadstools, an acorn love-heart stand and your fairy.

There are six dyes to choose from, and the ability to come up with your own colour by mixing dyes to ensure your designs really are one of a kind.The GEMEX Deluxe Creation is a large workstation that houses the LED clamshell light (this requires 4x AAA batteries), has storage compartments for all the decorations (stars, confetti’s etc.

Use them on all sorts of surfaces such as paper, card, canvas, wood and glass and it dries within 60 seconds. Using these Oaka packs will mean children who may have lost classroom time over the past few years will understand and remember topics more quickly, giving them valuable time for catching up on life in general. The Blo Pens Glitter Studio lets you colour and create decorations as well as make a beautiful butterfly mobile.The box says you can make 100 gems but in our experience it’s a lot less especially if you make the larger gem pieces. Then the plastic stirrer is used to push the decorations into place (you can add decorations after the gel has been put into the mould as well). It’s got everything you’d find at a real life vets including reception desk and waiting area, treatment room and animals.

Now that we have made a couple of jewels each I would feel happy to be less “hands on” with the kids and potter around the kitchen whilst they create their own designs. With very little gel used after our first use, it should last a while, making it good value for money. Whilst she loves her drawing, painting, modelling and anything crafty really, she has had her eye on the GEMEX sets that transform gel to gems in a few minutes and was absolutely delighted when John Adams kindly sent us the GEMEX Deluxe Creation Station to review. Let your kids learn about different species from under the sea from the comfort of their own room or playroom!There are 46 cards celebrating the wonders of Africa, from the brightly dressed Maasai tribesmen to giraffes grazing in the Serengeti, via the mysterious pyramids of ancient Egypt. The torch sets allow the resin gems to be cured in situ where as the magic clam shell requires the moulds to be lifted and placed inside them! To use Blo Pens simply put one of the stencils onto a sheet of paper, blow through your pen and see your pictures appears with amazing airbrush effects. After months of lock-down and now socially distancing, like most parents I’m struggling with new ideas for the summer.