Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The little balls are really pretty, but you will hate them. The plastic contraption to grow them is completely unnecessary, and is just a marketing ploy. You can just buy the balls and grow them in water, if you dare. There are two main problems. There is nothing to do with them - they are just tiny little boogers in pretty colors. Put them in a clear vase - looks nice. But problem 2 - if you let them out, you will regret it. It takes an hour to clean up the thousands of nasty pests that bounce and roll out of control all over the house. They're too small to pick up with fingers, slip under a broom, ruin a vacuum - there is literally no way to pick them up, except one at a time, half of them slipping through your fingers as you go. I was dismayed at my daughter for making mess after mess, until I realized that there is just no way to contain these lovely abominations. Nothing breaks my heart like a promising toy that turns family fun time into nothing but clean-up and thoughts of throwing the thing away after only a half hour of use.