Chicken Socks: How to Make Pompom Animals – review

As I mentioned in my last post, yesterday I went to the flea market and one of the things I got was the Chicken Socks: How to Make Pompom Animals book/kit for $1. I thought it was new, but in reality it’d been used (though clearly gently), and there is only enough materials left to make perhaps half the animals depicted in the book. Too bad, because Camila (who slept so late this morning I didn’t send her to school) and I just spent about 45 minutes making 3 of those animals, and she had a great time.
The kit is aimed to the younger crowd (4+ yo) and the animals are simple enough to be able to be made by kids without any help. The kit basically consists of pompoms of four different sizes and a bunch of woogly eyes, as well as some cardboard die cuts for wings and things of the sort. All a child has to do is glue the things together. The kit comes with a glue stick, but, perhaps because the kit was used, we didn’t find the glue sticky enough for the pompoms. Regular glue didn’t do it either, so we resorted to using our glue gun – that works very well, though it gets a little messy with strings of glue going everywhere and there is always the risk of burns. I wouldn’t recommend it for kids younger than 5.
In all, Camila really enjoyed making the animals and she’s looking forward to playing with them (let’s see if she actually does so). Would I pay $10 for the kit, what it retails for? Maybe for a gift, it seems to expensive for a bunch of pompoms otherwise – but I’m got we got what we got.