The Beadery Bonanza 5LB of Mixed Craft Beads, Sizes, Plastic, Round, Multicolor

This was a huge hit at Christmas! It came in a clear bag inside of the box and has so many different types of beads, it'll keep someone busy for quite a long time. Definitely worth the $24 I ended up paying, especially given the variety and quality of the beads. Way more than I was expecting.

When I ordered this, I didn't comprehend the volume of beads that would be delivered to my door. I am both horrified and delighted. I have a 10 year old daughter who needs extra help following instructions and making good choices and well... I want to say these are for her, but deep down in my little goblin heart I know that I got these for the little goblin girl inside of me. So, when I opened the amazon box and saw a smaller box inside I was intrigued. When I lifted the small box I was more like "oof this is heavier than I expected." It was full. Very full. To the top. It arrived in a very nice and satisfactorily puncture resistant bag that was very well sealed. I pulled it out of the bag upside down in fact, which was fine because it was packaged very securely. And that's when my daughter saw what it was. She also has an inner goblin and it is full of glee. I cut open the bag and poured them into a large bowl of unspecified volume capacity. The chapstick was not included and was used to show scale. It's so much. I am having a hard time processing the magnitude of beadage I have acquired. The assortment is varied and I can't even begin to start identifying individual shapes. I am overwhelmed. It all looks so good and I want to touch all of it at once and feel them and it's so much. Yall. I almost bought 2. I didn't think 1 was going to be enough, so I debated buying a second one. I almost drowned myself in plastic shiny delightfulness and I'm not sure if I should be sad or relieved--whether it was a mistake or a narrow escape. My partner will be home in 3 and a half hours and he has no idea. I like to imagine him opening the front door and there just being a hiss and rush of plastic shininess flowing out of the house like water as he, in a panic, wades through the ever deepening madness, desperate to get to the car before he is overwhelmed. There is no escape. The tires spin and tiny plastic gemlike rainbow pellets scatter everywhere, but the car does not move. The outpour continues. There are no survivors. 10/10, I like the idea of buying again, but it's finna be a hot minute before I need more. Excellent value for money. Would be PERFECT for an art teacher or for sensory play. Does not fit in a gallon ziplock bag. Does not fit in a gallon ice cream pail. Might fit in 2 gallon ziplock bags, or in 2 gallon ice cream pails, or a 2 gallon bucket. It is a lot of beads yall. I cannot stress this enough.

First I’d like to address one other review because I hesitated to buy this based on that one. Most beads are useful, if there’s a small bead inside of another bead, you can literally poke them right out. I was actually worried most wouldn’t be usable, I’ve found 3 with little beads inside of them and they poked right out. Not sure why people gave this bulk bead buy poor ratings. They’re great, they’re beads, they’re assorted in color and sizes as well as shapes. Just to be sure I bought a second set, again, they’re fantastic. Each set has a few other beads the other doesn’t. The first I got a few paddle beads, a lot were broken but that was negligible in the grand scheme of things. The second I received some nicely sized coin beads. Both sets are well worth it. No clue where someone would buy a better buy. I calculated the approximate cost per bead (I bought the beads for about $13 each set) and the cost per bead is about $.003 per bead. Anyone knocking the rating based on a few beads not being “usable” must not have or know how to gather this information. Now if the company wants to send me more beads for another positive review, I will gladly accept because there is no doubt in my mind that this is the best bulk buy of plastic beads.

Some of the beads were glow in the dark. That was a pleasant surprise. we bought this for candy bracelets she also had some skulls black cats and dinosaurs. Worth the buy the beads are dirt so your hands will be dark after going though this bag but for the price you get what you pay for and it was definitely worth it.

When I bought this, the price was set to $24., in my opinion I do not feel that this product was worth that much. Below you can find the break down of what I received. Now if the price was $18-$20 I can see it being worth that. The one thing I was happy about was the amount of "trash" I got, meaning broken beads, cast off and such. For the trash I got just about half an oz but in total I received 5 lbs and 1.55 oz so the overage covered that easily. The pony beads took up 47.05% of the total weight, but there was an array of beautiful colors. The main thing I wished for was more variety of the shapes that I received. All in all, this is not a bad product and if you want a variety of pony beads this is just right! Type of bead | Lbs. | Ozs Pony beads | 2. | 6.25 Tri | 0. | 6.55 Faceted | 0. | 8.95 Ribbed. |. 0. |. 6.80 Rings/donut. |. 0. |. 6.90 Tiny/mics odd. |. 0. |. 7.70 Letters. |. 0. |. .50 Hearts. |. 0. |. .35 Flowers. |. 0. |. 1.10 Oval. |. 0. |. .15 Airplane. |. 0. |. 1.35 Dolphin/whale |. 0. |. .55 Butterflies. |. 0. |. .20 Zoo animals. |. 0. |. .60 Stars. |. 0. |. .15 Skulls. |. 0. |. 1.00 Trash. |. 0. |. .45 Hope this helps! These are my own options! I bought this product with my own money and will not be reimbursed. I was not asked to give favorable opinions and was not contacted by the company at all.

Half of the box is pony beads. You can't tell that from the photo they provide. I bought my box to get beads with an inner hole of at least 3mm. Variety is hard to find. This box I received was of no exception. Most of the rings are gray. The skulls are brown. The beveled flat spacers are mostly gray. As far as large beads, I got 3 tug boats; 2 white and 1 black. 90% of the thick rings were all shades of gray and dark purple. Same with the beveled round beads. I did get some pink in the puffy critters, but there wasn't very many beads. To make this box worth something, I'm actually going to go through all the pony beads and pull out the faceted ones as well as all the beads I don't have. I guess it's the luck of the draw and my box was terrible compared to others. I say, "SortingIf you feel lucky, buy a box. If you aren't so lucky, you may want to skip this purchase."

Awesome! I’m most excited about this item for my daughter’s Christmas. She’s going to be ecstatic! The variety is great, I sifted through a few handfuls and didn’t find any broken beads. So many beads! She’ll be busy beading for a year 😁

While getting a 5 pound box full of mystery beads seems interesting and exciting, the beads are of poor quality. Many still have rough edges or are completely broken and unusable. This may be ideal for children who just want to have fun making bracelets or necklaces, but not ideal for higher quality beaded crafts. My intention with these was to make sun catcher charms, but they were just not going to work in adding sparkle to my backyard. I have opted not to return them, even though I was within the window to do so, and rather donate them to a church for the children to use and find joy. Also the packaging inside was not good. The bag they came in eas opened and the beads were simply loose in the box. While the box was not damaged, any small hole in the box could have cause beads to fall out.