Do it yourself Bubble gum Kit | Makes 1/4 lb of Bubblegum! | Copernicus Toys | A fun and great-tasting way to explore the science of food!

This is an awesome product! My daughter (six) discovered it after watching a video on Hobby Kids TV and she showed it to me, and it looked like a lot of fun so Santa brought her this kit for Christmas. We just made it together and it was easy and very fun! And the gum has great flavor and you can blow awesome bubbles with it! I highly recommend this to anyone with children who are allowed to chew gum! I took a bunch of photos and videos during and after the process, but my phone somehow didn't store them, otherwise I'd post them here. EDIT 1: Read some other reviews that mention coloring - the instructions say that food coloring is optional. If you don't color it, the gum will be a gray/off-white color. We opted to color ours red using McCormick food coloring and our hands didn't turn red or discolored at all. The video we watched on Hobby Kids TV showed using green and blue food colors and their hands did turn green and blue, but that's par for the course when having fun with kids in the kitchen! Also, I think the people who had issues with blowing bubbles probably made their gum too stiff. The instructions say you don't use all of the sugar, you add it until it's the right consistency, then you start to form the pieces of gum with it. We threw away quite a bit of the sugar. The photo shows my daughter blowing one of the many, many bubbles blown this afternoon/evening.

My kids were watching the mail every day for this to arrive, and it didn't disappoint on the fun scale! The history of bubble gum was interesting to read through, and they loved mixing everything in and chewing their first pieces. We cut it into about 20 rather large pieces. Definitely could have gone smaller. My one complaint is that the the mixing bowl was teeny tiny and did NOT fit all the gum pieces, let alone the corn syrup. Maybe if I'd have put the corn syrup in first, and then balanced the gum balls on top? I might have tried harder if I'd realized what a giant pain it would be to clean one of my own bowls. As it was, the balls were falling out and I hadn't put the syrup in yet, so I just dumped it all into a small Pyrex bowl and microwaved that. Cleaning the gum residue off my glass bowl - standing at the sink scraping it with my fingernail - took longer than setting up, making the gum, and cleaning everything else up, combined. A larger bowl would be much appreciated. If I ever do this again, I'll have some disposable bowls on hand. Other than that, great activity!

This is a very good kit for making bubblegum! Excellent family fun. It includes everything needed to make your gum. You only need to provide the food coloring of your choice but this is optional. I love that this kit not only includes everything, it also had detailed instructions with illustrations and information on the history of bubblegum starting at the beginning of mankind through present day. We had a blast making this gum, and it's actually quite simple! The gum tasted pretty good and it made excellent bubbles! I highly recommend this kit!

My kids had fun with this!

My grandson had a great time making his own bubblegum.

I run a kids after-school program and I really like this gum kit. I have purchased about 14 of these total. The only complaint I would say I have for the kit itself is the quality assurance for the company seems inconsistent. I have read others reviews about mispack issues; meaning that all of the pieces were not in the box. While I can confirm that I have also experienced similar issues with this product (missing the small cup that the bubble gum mix is to be microwaved in or the Popsicle stick to stir the hot mix with after microwaving), however I have never had any crucial items missing. I would rate it 3 out of 5 stars since overall I am pleased with it. Out of the 14 I have purchased, I have experienced 3 boxes missing something out of it. The taste is great and it makes a decent activity for about 30 minutes to an hour. If I had something missing that was crucial to the kit, I would obviously be upset. Hopefully that gives you some insight.

Don't buy.....didn't work. I bought for my students. What a mess it was. It was a big, hard, flavorless blob. Waste of money!

I enjoyed making this just as much as my daughter did! The gum turned out pretty well with the exception that my daughter was wondering why it wasn't pink? I reread the instructions and found that we were to add our own food coloring ( this is not included which is the reason for the 4 stars). The taste was just like bubble gum, my daughter gave some to her brother, sister and mom after it was made and they all liked it. I'm not sure if the gum is good for blowing bubbles or not, I wasn't in the other room when they chewed it and I only asked them if they like the taste. It makes a little mess but that only took a minute to clean up so that wasn't a big deal. Also we found it easier to mix everything together with our hands, we kepted pressing the powder sugar into the mixture until it was like a dough ball. We heated the gum up again for another five or so seconds in order to keep pressing the powered sugar into the ball. We still had a half a bag of the sugar left. We then rolled the ball out with a rolling pin an cut the gum into " sticks of gum" with a pizza cutter. All in all, this was pretty neat and my daughter really though it was neat, it would have been perfect had they gave a little packet of food coloring with the kits but I suppose you could make what ever color gum you want with your own food coloring. PS. The illustration in the directions telling you to pour the heated ingrediants into the " volcano" of powdered sugar doesn't work too well because the little stir stick they give you doesn't work fast enough and broke, you wanna mix with the powdered sugar with the heated ingrediant before it cools. I don't think that's possible with the little stick they give you and that's why we ended up using our hands. Just be mindful of how hot the ingrediants are when using your hands. Also keep putting the powdered sugar between your hands and the gum batch because it's really sticky, just like you use flour when rolling a dough ball. Have fun and God Almighty Bless us all!

Disappointed with the flavour of the gum which only lasted a minute of chewing which makes this product far too expensive for what it is worth. Concept is good but extremely poor quality...packaging more exciting than the content which is a good entice for a poor item.

This was by far the biggest waste of money this Christmas. It's not even pink, and doesn't even really taste that good!! Don't buy this..sorry!!

This is a great kit for anyone, but I bought it for my Son, he is at his little Scientist age, and this is a perfect kit to enhance the young scientific mind . Since most kids love bubble gum , what could be better that helping them make their own in batches. lol, lol I recommend this product, tastes great to,..I think it would be a great idea for kids at a birthday party to make it together...

Total rip off the most expensive packet of chewing gum you've ever had . Quit hard to make up .

On comes with enough mix to use once wasnt as greater present as expected