Alex Toys Friendship Wheels | 
| Brand: Alex Toys
Department: Girls
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $13.49
You Save: $1.50 (10%)
New (14) from $13.49
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 261
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 7 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 1.5 x 5
MPN: 845373
Model: 137WX
UPC: 731346013712
EAN: 0731346013712
ASIN: B0009S5U08
Release Date: July 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Includes 2 looms, 10 colors of floss, seed beads, beading needle and easy instructions | | • | This kit is a perfect travel or rainy day activity | | • | This kit encourages a stylish sense of fashion | | • | This kit is a great activity for one child or a small group | | • | Art activities encourage a child's imagination and learning development |
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Product Description
A fun, new way to make friendship bracelets| Just lift each thread, hook it to the opposite side and turn. It's fast, easy, and you may never want to put it down. Make 10 different bracelets using 10 brightly colored yarns. Each kit comes with two Friendship Wheels and easy instructions.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great activity for all ages! December 18, 2006
K. Doughty (Santa Barbara, Ca. USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I bought one of these for myself (just for fun) but the two wheels were quickly taken over by my 6 and 9 year old kids. There is only one set of four motions required to make all the brackets (the pattern is set by the initial ordering of the threads, and the wheels are color-coded to help you set up 4 different, very cute patterns: hearts, flowers, diamonds, and a four color barber-pole stripe) With a little tutoring even my 6-year old was able to produce bracelets as long as I was there to provide the occasional reminder. The bracelets take a while to produce so the child you purchase this for should have a good attention span, but the end product is very nice. I'm buying one for my little girl's friend. I hope she likes it as well as my kids do. Now I just need to get another for me!
Great fun for the kids August 9, 2006
Mom of four (Bay Shore, NY United States)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
My 15 year old daughter and her friends had fun making and selling these bracelets. We even made up a pattern of our own. it's fun working with all the different color combintions.
 It's easier to make bracelets the old-fashioned way. December 5, 2006
K. Coles (Indianapolis, IN)
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
My niece was bored with this wheel after a few minutes. My sisters and I used to make friendship bracelets when we were younger. We tried to use the wheel ourselves, but it was hard to remember what you were doing without constantly looking at the instructions. Needless to say, our designs came out looking like a rope instead of a bracelet.
Absolutely amazing! December 8, 2007
J. Donaldson (Toledo, OH United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This wheel is incredible. The first night my daughter got the wheel, she had a new friendship bracelet surrounded in hearts within hours. It seems like magic how something so simple as moving a string from the top to the bottom, turning, and doing it again can produce beautifully stiched and intricately detailed friendship bracelets. My nine-year old told me she thought it was relaxing, and I agreed so much that I came back and bought another set for myself and several of my co-workers! It's fun and amazing all at the same time, for young kids through grown-up kids.
Great toy for kids and adults! June 3, 2008
Calvin Canup (GA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this for my 8 yr old. I love it so much that she hasn't had a chance to use it yet because I can't put it down. Unlike some other reviewers, I didn't think that the instructions were hard to understand. The wheels make 4 different bracelet patterns but the procedure is the same for all 4 patterns. All that differs is where you put the colors on the wheel to start. The bracelets are made by repeating just a couple of simple steps over and over again. The hardest part is that you move two strings, turn the wheel, move two strings, etc and if you look away from the wheel and then look back it can be hard to tell where you left off. My daughter may have trouble with it because it does take some concentration and you have to remember to mark where you left off before you take a break. The wheels are made of durable foam so they are very lightweight. I would recommend this for ages 8 and above.
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