MattelHarry Potter Enamel Pin Kit, 6 years and up

Our Girl Scouts troop had a blast with these! I highly recommend them.

First off, the kit works. Just not as easy as one would hope. You can only do 1 pin at a time which sucks. If you take a cupcake/muffin liner and turn it upside down you can use it as another stand to work on 2 or more pins at one. Use a toothpick to move the beads wear you want for accuracy. You WILL NEED TO REDO THEM! Add your colors where you want, heat in oven. It will have gaps and unevenness. Add more beads and heat again. It will not damage it and it's the only way to get a smooth finish. I also recommend working on 1 or 2 colors at a time to prevent mixing. They do look nice once done. It's just a time consuming pain.

The box arrived open and obviously not brand new. It had everything in it so we decided to keep it but 2 of the color bottles already had the seal broken.We decided to keep it since everything was there. My 10 year old daughter enjoyed this craft but had the following issues:1) There was no dark brown for Harry Potter's hair. She used the light brown used for Hermione.2) Detail of pins was difficult to achieve.Overall she was happy with how these pins turned out.

This was a super fun craft, but I would say it is aimed more at teens and young adults than kids. I’m a fairly crafty 24 year old and even this took 3 days of patience on my part. I found that even doing the best I could at filling the specs with enamel, once baked, they still didn’t look great. After adding more enamel and baking them all a second time they came out muuuch better! It was a bummer how the red bleed onto the white no matter how careful you are though. This craft has given me much appreciation for profession ename pins and how good they turn out. I am still pleased to add these 9 pins into my collection

These are cute but a little bit difficult to do. My 10 year old got bored with it because you can only make one pin at a time, so I started making them for her, but even I found it pretty much impossible to make them look as nice as those on the photos.

A great gift but when I opened the package it was damaged around.

My daughter got it for Christmas she was so excited. The pins look florear only downfall was that she didn’t get all of the pins she got a duplicate pin instead of the tie pin. Which she really wanted kinda a let down.

Alright! I have the answer! You still have to bake it twice... Maybe three times because you'll have spaces to fill but if you bake it for 35 min instead of 25 it blends way better 🙂

Do not buy. Worst craft ever. I wish I had read the reviews before I bought this. Very difficult to do properly