Christmas Stretchy Pick ’Ems – Set of 4
Forage. Find. Pick. Pop.
A tiny Christmas treasure hunt.
Christmas Stretchy Pick ’Ems turn the tiny-piece foraging experience festive, with miniature seasonal embellishments tucked through soft, highly stretchy silicone. Search, isolate, pop and extract them one by one.
Made using ultra-soft zero-degree silicone, they stretch significantly further than our original Pick ’Ems and have a slightly sticky, skin-like feel. The embedded pieces are deliberately tiny, generally less than 3 mm, so your fingertips do more of the finding.
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. The mix of coloured glass beads, glass pebbles and polymer clay pieces also adds a little sort-and-search possibility once they’re out.
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
- Detailed fingertip foraging, picking, pinching, pushing and extraction
- Slightly sticky, grippy, skin-like silicone feel
- Silicone rebounds towards itself as pieces are extracted, so resulting holes are 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?
Our original Pick ’Ems contain larger embellishments, making individual pieces easier to locate and creating a more obvious extraction experience.
Stretchy Pick ’Ems combine much stretchier 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.
Because the Stretchy silicone rebounds towards itself, the holes left behind tend to be less visually prominent than with our original Pick ’Ems, particularly earlier in the picking process. The holes aren’t absent, especially 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.
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.
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.
Pair the extracted pieces with our clear and translucent Put ’Em Putty range. 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.
Once emptied, the silicone itself can be discarded, or keep it and use it as a stretchy, squishy sensory stim.
Materials
Silicone, coloured glass bead, glass pebbles and polymer clay.
Safety
Choking hazard. Unsuitable for children under 3 years. These are not toys. Please use with adult supervision.
