Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio

by Crayola

Product Features

• Lets kids design & make their own fashion
• One of a kind jewelry collections
• Makes over 160 unique beads
• Charm bails & Earring Post are interchangeable
• The bead spinner has a universal design & can be used by those who are right or left hand dominant

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 13.5 x 12.1 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B004Z1JSN0
• Item model number: 23-2436
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 - 15 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #525 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #3 in Toys & Games > Arts & Crafts > Craft Kits > Jewelry
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

Product Description

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Bring out your creative side with the Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Boutique. Make one-of-a-kind gifts for friends, host a jewelry-making party, or design colorful and trendy accessories all for yourself. This set lets you design the beads and charms, and a jewelry spinner helps you string them together to make bracelets, earrings, and necklaces. Recommended for kids aged 6 years and older, this set makes jewelry design fun and easy.

Model Magic Jewelry Boutique

• Ages: Six years and up
• Requires: Ready to play

At a Glance:

• Set lets you create your own jewelry designs
• Includes a variety of colors to make swirl-patterned beads
• Accessories to make earrings, bracelets, and necklaces
• Workstation keeps your beads organized
• Easy-to-follow instructions and tips

Create your own jewelry charms, such as bracelets, earrings, and necklaces.
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Design, Glaze, and String Your Beads Together

With the Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Boutique, you and your friends create your very own jewelry designs. Choose from a variety of Model Magic colors, including Pacific Blue, Tropical Rainforest, and Razzmatazz, to make swirling patterns and textures on your beads.

Making the beads is easy. You begin by twisting colors together to exploring various color pairings. Once you've chosen your colors, roll them into cones or disks and cut them into shapes. Next, you dry them and glaze them with the shine you want. When you are finished making your beads or charms, string them together to make a piece of jewelry.

Create Earrings, Charm Necklaces, and Charm Bracelets

The set allows you to make your Model Magic creations into earrings, charm necklaces, and charm bracelets. Along with the supplies to create the beads, this set includes the clasps, posts, cords, and charm settings necessary to make your beads into accessories. When your beads are complete, you can string them on the cords to make bracelets and necklaces, or attach them to the posts to make earrings.

Refine Your Skills with the Studio Workstation

With the set's studio workstation, you'll find new ways to refine your bead- and jewelry-making skills. Use the bead caves on the workstation to start your beads, and then place the Model Magic on the spinner plate to achieve your desired swirl effect. Keep your bead in a cone shape, or use one of the cutters to create a dangling charm. To add a little bling, use the included sticky gems and attach them to your beads.

The Peacock dryer keeps your beads together while they dry and prepares them for glazing. When you're done with making jewelry for the day, store all your materials in the workstation's handy compartments.

Easy-to-Follow Instructions and Tips

The set comes with illustrated and written instructions that help you grasp the basics of bead and jewelry making. Helpful tips inspire your creativity, so you can bring new color and flair to your jewelry collection.

What's in the Box

Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Boutique workstation, 8 packs Model Magic, 5 bracelet charms, 18 sticky gems, 3 pendant charms, 5 toggle sets, 2 48-inch necklace cords, 2 shape cutters, 4 earring posts and ear wires, 1 36-inch elastic cord, Peacock dryer rack, bead bunch, bead glaze, and instructions.

Product Description

Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio lets you fashion fun and fabulous handmade trinkets, bracelets, necklaces and much more. The bead spinner mashes small amounts of Model Magic into marbled beads and baubles. Make handmade gifts for friends and family, host a jewelry-making party or create your own line of colorful accessories.

• Product Dimensions (inches): 2 (L) x 13.5 (W) x 12.1 (H)
• Age: 6 years and up

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

129 of 130 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Rainy Day Activity, September 22, 2011

By 

Jenna Glatzer (NY, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio (Toy)

(What's this?)

Okay, first, why does the girl on the box have on hooker eye shadow?

Aside from that, what a great little kit this is. It arrived here on a rainy afternoon and was a perfect activity for my 4-year-old and me... okay, I admit it, I kept playing with it long after she'd gone on to something else.

Now, the good and not-as-good:

PROS:

* There's plenty of modeling dough here to make lots and lots of beads.

* There are also plenty of pendants. Just two pairs of earrings, though.

* It's really simple. You take little pinches of the dough and roll them with your hands, then twist two or more colors together, then roll them around in the manual bead spinner to make cool swirly patterns. Then you poke a hole though the middle of each bead and let them dry overnight on the bead tree provided. Once they're dry, you can coat them with a glaze to make them shiny.

* The dough is very easy to work with and has a nice, light texture.

* You can get some really pretty color combinations and make jewelry that even adults would wear. Makes for great gifts for a girl to give to her family.

* Refillable. All you need to do is pick up some more Model Magic dough, and you can keep making beads. Forever and ever.

CONS:

* You really don't need the whole "bead spinner" thing. You'd get the same result (faster and more efficiently, probably) by just rolling it around in your hands. Once you poke a hole in the bead, it won't keep the shape it had from the spinner anyway. So, really, what you're paying for is the dough, the (cheap, but fine) jewelry parts, a small sheet of accent jewels, a couple of little cookie-cutters to make heart and diamond shapes, an ounce of glaze, and a cool plastic tree apparatus to poke holes in the beads and hang them while they dry.

* Storage is an issue. There are just four compartments in the spinner for the dough, but it comes with eight colors-- and you can't let the different colors touch each other or they immediately stick together. You're supposed to put leftover dough in Ziplocs.

* The dough can stain (hands, clothes, your walls)... make sure your work area is protected and that your daughter doesn't run off with the un-dry beads and manage to get them smashed into your rugs. Not that I'd know anything about that. No, siree.

All in all, I like it a bunch. It brings back memories of when I used to make Fimo beads in college, and now I can share that with my little daughter with this much-easier-to-work-with dough.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great craft for girls, September 21, 2011

By 

Eric "pilotdaddy" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio (Toy)

(What's this?)

I have to admit that I was pretty excited about this gift for the girls. I have two daughters ages 4 and 5 and knew that I would have to assist in this project since it is recommended for ages 6 and older. It comes with 8 different colors of model magic and enough accessories to make a charm bracelet, 3 pendant necklaces, 5 toggle sets (for necklaces or bracelets), 2 earring sets, 18 sticky rhinestones, 2 shape cutters, drying rack, bead glaze, and the device that swirls.
Overall impression: It's a fairly easy set up and my kids can do all the steps by themselves, it's just a lot of steps and they need reminders and assistance at times. I find it odd that there are 8 colors and only 4 storage bins on the device. It recommends the model magic to be in ziplock bags as well so I find that having storage bins is unnecessary. My girls have a blast picking out colors and swirling them together then picking which shape to put them in or to press them onto the designs. We've even rolled them into some glitter that we had from a previous craft (don't recommend because glitter is on everything from then on). The girls have had endless joy from making beads. The only problem we've come across is that they want a finished product right away. The beads have to sit for at least 24 hours. I live in the dry desert of Las Vegas and they were still a little squishy 24 hours later. We still glazed them and let them sit overnight again. The glaze really makes them shiny! After that...my daughters were able to make earrings and a bracelet. Unfortunately one of the beads broke off the bracelet and they even left some color stains on her wrist. Regardless, my kids love the jewelry boutique. They have necklace pendants drying right now and can't wait to put them together tomorrow.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, November 9, 2011

By 

Vicki Bohn "Internet Shopper" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio (Toy)

(What's this?)

After reading over the instructions, it was easy to begin having fun making beads with my daughter. I must admit, I like making the beads as much as my 7 year old does!

The spinner is really just for spinning the dough together to make nice swirls of color, not for actually shaping the beads themselves. Just the right amount of spins on the spinner gives you a pretty swirl effect, but if you swirl too much, the colors incorporate into each other and just become one color. Remember blue and yellow make green? That sort of thing.

Once you shape your beads by hand, there is a tapered plastic stick for making a hole in the dough, transforming your little wad of dough into a bead. You'll loose shape to your bead in the piercing process to varying degrees, depending on how rough you are & will need to reshape a little before threading your bead onto the plastic stick that connects to the stand to dry.

I haven't gotten the hang of adding texture to the beads with by imprinting them with the textures provided. I either end up squishing the bead too much or making too subtle of a design. It's a fun idea though & maybe I'll get better at it with more practice.

The bead glaze really gives the beads a nice, glossy finish. When we run out-which won't be for a while-I plan on using 1 part water to 1 part glue, as I read about doing on the crayola website.

This set comes with enough supplies to allow one or two kids to make a good amount of jewelry. That being said, I am glad that replacement dough, string for stringing the beads, etc. is easy enough to procure so we can continue to make beaded items for unsuspecting friends and relatives for years to come!

I would also buy this craft kit as a gift without hesitation. I'm thinking it's most appropriate for crafty girls aged around 7-10. Any younger and a grown up would need to be heavily involved. As a gift, I think it provides a good bang for your buck.