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(More customer reviews)Some of these negative reviews made me laugh. I bought some PixOs stuff for the first time last Christmas. My son was then 3.5 years old, and he wanted them so badly. I had my doubts, because they looked tedious to me and too old for him.
However, the PixOs stuff he received for Christmas were probably his favorite Christmas present. He did PixOs every day until I put them up where he can't reach them. I did that because, at his age, doing PixOs requires a fair bit of help from me. He does fine until he accidentally bumps the tray causing, as he puts it, a "catastrophe" and then I have to straighten it out for him. A year on, he is getting better at not bumping the trays, so catastrophes are fewer, but I still have to be ready and willing to help him when one does occur. So, I put them up so he can't do them everyday.
To answer a few of the criticisms: Yes, they do require a great deal of close, tedious work and patience. Patience from the kid and from the parent. Patience is a virtue, no? Yes, the balls will roll all over the floor. We sweep our floors, so it's not that big of a deal for us, I guess. They do require much longer drying times than is indicated in the instructions (and more spraying, too). We tried doing the amount of spraying and drying indicated in the instructions, and the things will fall apart, so we just spray them until they're quite saturated and then let them dry overnight, and we have never had a real problem with the things not sticking. You have to spray them until you can see the balls expanding and joining together--it's quite noticeable. And dry overnight. Preferably in a nice, warm place. The fan doesn't work very well--mostly it just runs through batteries, so I usually don't even bother with it.
We have made all kinds of things out of these. My son was just churning out tons of these, and so I had to find uses for them. We glue magnet strips to the back and use them as refrigerator magnets. We made some nice Pixos heart necklaces for Valentines. We strung a bunch of sea-themed ones into a mobile in my son's room. They all stick together just fine and have made some colorful decor for us. I do like them, even though it is incredibly annoying and tedious for me to fix the "catastrophes," because they encourage my very active 4.5-year-old son to sit still and sustain concentration and patience on one activity for a long time. Then he gets to experience the joy and satisfaction of knowing that the mobile in his room or the magnets on the refrigerator or whatever are totally made by him. Overall, it's been great for him, and we continue to buy new Pixos products fairly frequently.
So, the long and short of it is that if you, the parent, have some patience and the ability and desire to help your kids create interesting little projects, the product works fine. If, on the other hand, your kid is impatient, attention-challenged, disinclined to sit still, easily frustrated when the beads spill, or if you, the parent, are unable or unwilling to help your kid do this, then it's probably not for you. That isn't really a problem with the product, though--just a mismatch between the product and you/your kid's disposition.
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