YOUniverse Multi-Color Crystal-Growing Jewelry Stem Activity Kit, Boys and Girls, Child, Ages 8+

It was a birthday gift for six year old girl and she was so excited. I think it was a good choice cause it gave her experience with crystals how to make them and how to paint them and how to make jewelry. Well worth the money.

Great niece (7 yrs old) loved it!

I got the Youverse crystal growing, jewelry stem activity kit for my kids aged 11 and 5. It was very easy for my 11 year old to master, 5 year old needed a little assistance. From beginning to end, it took about 30 hours. They loved being able to check every few hours to see the "crystals" growing The results are some beautiful charms they can wear.

This is definitely not a quick project. You have to wait 24 hours, in order to have a finished product. The packaging states ages 8 and up. I would definitely agree, that this is a project for a preteen or a teen. The instructions are great because they inform you exactly what to do step by step. I would definitely recommend this product.

So we can’t figure out what we did wrong since we followed the instructions exactly. We even left the glue with the crystal mix on top dry several days instead of just three hours like it said. We checked it after three hours and it was still gooey and then it just got left a few days which I thought was good because it was super dry. The problem seems to be that when we hung it in the water to grow the crystals the glue dissolved and slid off as you can see in the pictures. Which makes sense because it was just white glue which is water soluble. So I’m not sure how to get this to work. We’re going to try again but honestly it was very time consuming so it will probably be a few days before I have a chance. I just can’t see how anything will be different. Three stars because the kids still had fun doing it but it didn’t work and they were bummed. But we did get to talk about how experiments sometimes fail and we learn that way too. So that’s something.

Followed directions exactly and like many people say, the glue falls off with crystals on it, the glue falls off in one piece, refund ?? I got this for Christmas just opened it yesterday. Horrible

We followed the instructions very carefully because we heard a friend's didn't work. Our also did not work out. The crystals formed, but they wouldn't stay on the charm because the base was too soft after being in water.

What a scam! First it was 10 days late. It was supposed to be a 20 pound bag not .22 ounces!

My kids and I had high hopes for this product. We followed the instructions but the crystals fell off in some places while still in the solution. We removed the pendants from the solution at around the 30 hr mark and let them dry overnight. However, even after drying the crystals would still fall off to the touch. I added a picture and this is 5 days AFTER the overnight dry time. I added a picture and you can see the pieces of crystals in my palm. Also, note how the color faded over that time. Its obviously a very noticeable difference.. The crystal breakage is not too bad but its still bad enough to where a child can't wear it as jewelry. The decoration part was fun, my kids and I both enjoyed it but it doesn’t hold up as advertised.

My daughter was really excited to do this activity and unfortunately it was a total disappointment. We followed everything step by step and it didn’t turn out, at all what do ever. Can I get a refund, please? To anyone inquiring, don’t waste your money