Customer Reviews

Smart Snacks ABC Lacing Sweets

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I bought this product for my 4 year old daughter for Christmas. Each piece of candy has a capital letter on one side and the corresponding lower case letter on the other - a good thing. My daughter loves that they are candy shaped and she can scoop them out of the candy jar and play with them. I love the fact that everything fits into the "candy jar" and stores away very nicely. However, the main reason I bought this was so she could practice lacing and make words at the same time. It is very difficult to get the shoestring through the hole. As an adult I had a hard time. How is a 4 year old suppose to do this. If your goal is only to play with the letters, then this would be a fine gift, but if you actually want to lace them, rethink your purchase.

I took my time deciding on which bead lacing set to get for my son's 2nd birthday. I chose this one because of the bright colors, capital and lower case letters, and the fact that it stored nicely in it's own jar. I was very disappointed when we opened the package. The plastic coated ends of the laces are too wide to fit through the holes on the beads so the lacing purpose of this set is useless. Also, the end of the scoop is narrower than the beads, so my son has to pick up the bead, put it in the scoop and then turn the scoop over to dump it out. Basically, it doesn't really "scoop" the beads. I ended up going out and buying a couple of narrow shoe strings to make this toy work. My son can now lace the beads and still likes to dump out the beads on the floor and use the scoop to put them back in the jar, one at a time.

My children, 2 1/2 year-old twins, love playing with these beads! They are very colorful and fun for little hands to hold. I found them to be a great tool for teaching abc's as well as colors. Even though the age says 2 years and above, I was still a little concerned as a choking hazard because they are small enough to put in the mouth. If your child is still prone to putting things in their mouth, I would wait till they are a little older. My son who is 4 also loves to play with them.

Thank goodness I am not alone in my opinion of this toy! I was so frustrated as an adult with this that it prompted me to write a scathing letter to the manufacturer, who never replied.

True - the laces are too fat and the caps on the end of the laces that you poke through the beads were too flimsy so you really can't lace this. Also, the cap twists but it never threads off so a small child gets absolutely nowhere turning and turning with the cap never coming off. This toy made both me and my son MAD.

We now use this as something to spill on the floor while Mommy cooks dinner. Then I just put the empty jar in the corner and toss the beads back in from five feet away. I didn't plan on it being like a ring toss set but that's all it's good for.

Cute looking - really poorly designed. Scary chemical smell that doesn't go away with time. The box says it is for a certain age then the instructions inside state it is for a different aged child altogether. Which is it?

I am reluctant to buy another toy from this company. Oh well. Chalk it up to experience.

My two and a half year old daughter got these lacing sweets as a Christmas present, and was very excited to open the box and play with the pretend candies. The only problem was that the laces did NOT fit through the holes. We tried many different candies, and none of them seemed to work. I finally pushed the lace through one of them, but my daughter was more than frustrated when she could not do it herself. Also, the laces are very, very short. I expected more for the money. My daughter does like to use the scoop that it comes with- she scoops the candies in and out of the cookie jar. Then she asks to have some "real candy. " Not a good toy.

The manufacturer actually lists this toy as being for 2-5 yrs. Our 20 mo. old and 35 mo. old both enjoy putting the candies in and out of the the jar. The scoop the candies back into. Lacingings worked but needed to be done by an adult. Still I thought it would be good to work on learning letters.

Wrong! The candies are small enough to fit in the mouth and big enough to block an airway. Age should be older than two unless they make the candies too big to fit in a mouth.

Very, very strong smell of spraypaint. Not subtle. Smell intensifies when beads are stored in the container. We received this as a gift for our 2 yr old, and she liked it, but we discarded it after a couple of days due to the strong chemical smell, in order to avoid further exposing our daughter or ourselves. The problem is compounded by the ridiculous name of this product -- Smart Snacks. Are you kidding me? How is this a smart snack? How is it a snack at all? Why encourage a child to potentially eat one of these poison pills? WTF? There are lots of other safe, sensible lacing toys for families who love their children (e.g. those from Plan Toys).

I read the other reviews with the complaints about the laces not fitting through the hole and the scoop being awkward. The company must have updated the design since then, because we had neither of those issues with our Lacing Sweets. I also read the review about the pieces having a bad smell, but my kit did not have a smell at all. There were, however, instructions on the side of the box to wash the pieces before using them.

This is a very versatile toy that will grow with your child. They can be used for color sorting, counting, and spelling simple words. My daughter spread out all of her letter flashcards and matched each piece with the corresponding card. They are good for pretend play and so durable that even my kids couldn't destroy them.

This toy is a great idea but the toy is horrible. The beads REAK of paint it smells like a can of spray paint and I even washed them and let then air our for a week and its still really strong NOWAY do I want my children playing with these with it giving off such bad fumes I contacted the company but after 3 emails I have never heard a respones, they also do not say weather thier toys are made in China aftr email them on that to I'm assuming thier lake of response means yes. Unless you want to get you children high DONT BUY THIS PRODUCT

This is the same as my previous item. I ordered before Christmas and have not gotten them yet. I have emailed you regarding this problem, so please respond this time. Thank you, K Correll