Vivid Stretchy Pick ’Ems - Set of 4
Forage. Find. Pick. Pop.
Small pieces. Big colour.
Vivid Stretchy Pick ’Ems bring bright, punchy colour to the tiny-piece foraging experience. Each set contains four highly stretchy Pick ’Ems packed with miniature embellishments to search for, isolate, pop and extract.
Made using ultra-soft zero-degree silicone, they stretch significantly further than our original Pick ’Ems and have a slightly sticky, skin-like feel. Hidden throughout are tiny smooth coloured glass pebbles, generally less than 3 mm, creating a detailed foraging experience for your fingertips.
Rather than simply spotting a piece and pulling it out, your fingers need to search, stretch, pinch, push and isolate those tiny pieces before extracting them. It isn't necessarily difficult, but there's more going on under your fingertips. That makes for a wonderfully absorbing picking experience and gives the fingers a surprisingly satisfying workout.
Each pack contains four individually filled Stretchy Pick ’Ems.
What makes Stretchy Pick ’Ems different?
- Zero-degree silicone creates an ultra-soft, highly stretchy sensory experience
- Significantly stretchier than our original Pick ’Ems
- Tiny embedded embellishments, generally less than 3 mm
- More detailed fingertip foraging, picking, pinching, pushing and extraction
- Slightly sticky, grippy, skin-like silicone feel
- Silicone rebounds towards itself as pieces are extracted, making the resulting holes generally less prominent
- Four Stretchy Pick ’Ems in every pack
- Once emptied, the silicone can still be stretched, squished and manipulated as a sensory stim
Original Pick ’Ems or Stretchy Pick ’Ems?
Both are designed around the satisfaction of finding and extracting embedded pieces, but the experience is quite different.
Our original Pick ’Ems contain larger embellishments, making individual pieces easier to locate and creating a more obvious picking and extraction experience.
Stretchy Pick ’Ems combine much stretchier zero-degree silicone with significantly smaller embellishments. Your fingertips do more of the searching. You might feel a tiny piece beneath the surface, stretch the silicone around it, push it towards the surface, pinch, pop and finally extract it.
Neither is better or harder. They're simply two different kinds of satisfying.
There's another interesting difference too. Because the Stretchy silicone rebounds towards itself, the holes left behind after pieces are removed tend to be less visually prominent than with our original Pick ’Ems, particularly earlier in the picking process.
If you love the picking experience but find the appearance of lots of open holes uncomfortable or off-putting, Stretchy Pick ’Ems may be a better fit. The holes aren't absent, particularly as you near the end, but they're generally less obvious.
Who might they suit?
Stretchy Pick ’Ems may particularly appeal to people who seek focused picking input, enjoy detailed finger movements, or find repetitive tactile tasks absorbing or regulating.
The tiny embellishments encourage sustained fingertip exploration rather than simply grabbing larger pieces. There’s plenty of foraging, pinching, pushing, stretching and popping along the way.
They can also provide another place to direct picking-seeking fingers when you're looking for an alternative to picking at skin, nails or other surfaces.
And you don't actually have to extract anything. Some people simply enjoy stretching, squeezing, folding and manipulating the silicone itself.
Helpful to know
The zero-degree silicone has a distinctly grippy, slightly sticky feel. That's part of what gives Stretchy Pick ’Ems their unusual stretch and tactile experience.
For someone who loves that skin-like, grippy silicone feel, it will probably be glorious. For someone whose nervous system screams ABSOLUTELY NOT at sticky textures, they need to know before buying.
The embedded embellishments are deliberately much smaller than those in our original Pick ’Ems. Expect fingertip foraging and searching, rather than larger pieces that are immediately obvious.
Pick them out. Then do it all over again.
Stretchy Pick ’Ems are designed as a single-use extraction experience, but the embellishments don't need to be single-use.
Pair them with our clear and translucent Put ’Em Putty range. Once you've extracted your tiny treasures, push them into the putty, forage for them, pick them back out and repeat.
Put them in. Pick them out. Put them in. Pick them out. However many times your brain finds satisfying.
Once emptied, the Stretchy Pick ’Em silicone itself can be discarded, or keep it and use it as a stretchy, squishy sensory stim in its own right.
Materials
Silicone and smooth coloured glass pebbles.
Safety & Care
- Choking hazard.
- Not suitable for children under 3 years.
- These are not toys.
- Use with adult supervision.
- Do not bite or place in the mouth.
- Inspect before each use and discontinue immediately if the silicone is split, torn or damaged.
- Wipe clean with a damp cloth and allow to air dry.
Warranty
Our standard warranty covers manufacturing faults. It does not cover damage caused by picking through, tearing, biting, cutting, over-stretching, rough use or normal wear and tear.
