Planning to get a small cotton candy machine for DH’s cousins children, is this a bad idea?
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Anonymous
| Exchange for a chocolate fountain machine 😄 |
Anonymous
| Please don’t get my kids this. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not. |
Anonymous
| Get them matching aprons, a cookbook and some cookie cutters and sprinkles. Easier to store and still fun. |
Anonymous
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I would also hate this. If a food maker item, I would prefer an air popper for popcorn or a snow cone maker with some all natural syrups (someone did get us one of those and we do use it for summer play dates). It’s really good with the real fruit syrups.
But board games are a great joint ptesrnt and they are a good age for that. |
Anonymous
You can also use sugar free hard candy |
Anonymous
| What about a small popcorn popper, cute serving dishes & toppings? Sur la table has a good selection. Their silicone microwave one works well, too. My kids live various toppings (different cheese flavors, sea salt truffle, caramel, etc) |
Anonymous
| I just posted about popcorn. Another idea my kids liked at that age was a box of board games. They were into twister, the one where you act things out, etc. |
Anonymous
| It you want to do a cooking related item- my SIL gave my kids an awesome little waffle maker years ago that we still use years later. You could also consider aprons, set of kid baking utensils, etc. I recall seeing a lot of cute ideas at Williams Sonoma (and can always buy cheaper version or variation on Amazon lol). |
Anonymous
| We would love this! Send it to us. It's true that it's straight sugar, but a tbsp of sugar makes a surprising volume of cotton candy. It's really not egregious compared to other things these kids are allowed to eat. |
Anonymous
| We would donate that immediately. |
Anonymous
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The kids would be excited, I would be annoyed. We would use it once because they would insist and it would be gone. I would attempt to donate before it was opened.
The same happened with the snow cone machine, ice cream maker, easy bake oven and any other kid appliance that was received over the years. |
Anonymous
| My daughter bought one of these with her own money about a year and a 1/2 ago. She loves it. She doesn’t use it ‘all the time’ but it has been a fun thing for her to have. Do check the reviews. Some work well and some are super scary. We haven’t had any trouble with ours |
Anonymous
| I’d get them a board game |
Anonymous
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Don’t get the donut maker either-they taste like pancakes in a donut shape.
I’d be happy with a popcorn popper or a waffle maker. Oh, or an ice cream maker. |