Review: Djeco Fish Rainbow Colored and Glitter Craft

If you have read before you will know we live Djeco. We have used a bunch of their kits. However, this Glitter Kit was definitely not one of my favorites. It is fun and the projects turn out very pretty but it is a mess. You get glitter, a stick to remove the stickers and 4 projects to do. You remove all of the stickers of one number than pour the glitter. There is a little hole in the box so you can pour the glitter back into their containers… ya this was a mess. Some of the glitter doesn’t come out of the box. Sometimes the glitter doesn’t pour out right and it got all over everywhere.

Since not all the glitter comes out of the box it ends up getting mixed with the previous colors. This does add a cool effect to the next time you use the glitter but I wish it came off of the box easier. We have done two of these projects so far and are out of the pink glitter in the tube. This is highly disappointing since we’ll need it for the last two projects. Luckily, I have spare things of glitter. It will not be he same color as what the art kit came with but it will have to work.

The 4 projects are very pretty and it is definitely fun to do but running out of glitter, the mess and the glitter mixing are very disheartening. If you do not mind an absolute glitter bomb mess and having to go out and get extra glitter than this kit would be great. I honestly do care about a glitter mess because I love glitter but running out of glitter is what makes me frustrated. As with all glitter projects when you are done the glitter will rub off onto your hands and everything else. Djeco does make other glitter art kits but we will not be getting them. I do recommend any other non glitter Djeco kit.

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