You know those really cool stained glass things you can make? You drop little plastic pellets into a wire frame and then throw it into the oven and the plastic pellets melt. When the entire thing cools down, you take it out and you have a beautiful stained glass ornament. They are fun to make and the last for a long time.
My mom has a ton of these things. I want to get some for my niece and nephew, but what is the name? It’s Makit & Bakit by Colorbök. The trick is finding them online.
Joann only sells three: decorative bowls, kittens, and Saturn. Amazon has those, and a few more: unicorns and frogs. Some website (craftsuppliesforless.com) sold Christmas kits, but are now sold out.
The official manufacturer of Makit & Bakit is Colorbök, and they have only two sets, flower and heart.
Etsy has a couple Christmas Makit & Bakit.
I suppose Colorbök no longer makes Makit & Bakit kits for Christmas. Weird. I just contacted them asking that they produce these wonderful holiday stained glass ornamnts again. Here’s my email:
I have been hearing from my friends and family that they want to purchase Christmas Makit & Bakit kits. I don’t see any on your site. I would personally buy about 50 sets for everyone I know if you sold these kits. Please consider making these kits again. People love DIY projects. This is a simple kit that even small children can do. And they last forever. Just this past Christmas I was hanging up my mother’s collection of about 30 different Christmas Makit & Bakit ornaments.
People want them. You should consider making them again.
Please consider contacting ColorBök using their contact form. If they see the demand, they should make them again.
, you make an interesting connection. Both the tablets glow and so do these ornaments. Another funny connection is that yesterday I was emailing my brother about some critical reaction I found on the Reader about the Chagall stained glass windows being moved in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maybe I’ll make a blog post about the Chagall windows. Now if I was able to find some of these Makit & Bakit ornaments, I could leave one at the Chagall windows
Hmmm, maybe I should look into how to make my own wire frame. The plastic pellets seem to still be available online. I could make my own stained glass commentary on the Chagall windows relocation into a cave with artificial light.
Blame the Google Generation. All they want to do is stick their head in a tablet. They don’t want to color, make crafts, play outside… whatever. They just want their tablet… and I don’t mean tablet of paper. Whoa, maybe that is from whence the name came!
Apparently, back in the 1970s, these were also called “EZE Form”