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My kids spent a whole afternoon just watching these pastel beads puff up in a bowl of water. The color change from tiny specks to soft, squishy balls is genuinely mesmerizing.

We dropped a few in a glass bowl before dinner and by dessert they'd nearly doubled in size, the pastel colors really popping as they swelled. Even my husband got a kick out of watching them grow larger and larger in the water.

The transformation from tiny hard beads to squishy, translucent spheres is genuinely fun to watch, though it took closer to 6 hours to fully expand rather than the claimed time. My kids were mesmerized checking on them every hour.