Style Lab: Jewelry Design Teaches Your Tween To Bead

by Rachel on September 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in Children\'s Jewellery

Style Lab: Jewelry DesignBefore I begin, let me make this clear: Style Lab: Jewelry Design is a video game but believe me when I say it’s not your typical video game. I know the next question I will get is someone asking: what does this have to do with inexpensive jewelry? And that’s a fair question, the reason I have chosen to write about this is because, this game will not only teach your tween daughters or sons to make bead jewelry and after they have designed the jewelry they can order what they designed online. Isn’t that just a grand idea? Teaching your kids to bead in a video game and then being able to buy whatever they made directly online.


When I first heard about this game, I wondered like most of you, why? What was the point? Instead of buying a video game that lets you pretend that you are beading, why not just do the real thing, afterall there’re many books and videos online willing to show you how to. And then I remembered that it was for TWEENS. What better way to get your child interested in making her own jewelry than giving her a game that lets her play around with the process.

Style Lab: Jewelry Design

Style Lab: Jewelry Design is for the Nintendo DSi game system (a hand held system that most girls already have or want.) If you want more info on the DSi, Click here.

This is a direct quote from the publishers website:


“Jewelry Designer lets tweens experiment by virtually designing their own jewelry. Players can even upload their finished jewelry designs online and purchase actual products that were designed in the game.

Create Incredible Designer Jewelry

  • Design stunning bracelets, necklaces, and earrings using a variety of colored, faceted beads and darling charms, including letter charms.
  • Order, own, and wear your unique in-game creations when you upload them to the Style Lab website!
  • Easy-to-Use Tools – Use the stylus to draw out lengths of chain or wire, decorate beads by cutting, drawing or painting for a layered approach.
  • Run Your Own Jewelry Boutique - Interact with customers, arrange displays of your unique creations in the window, and build your business.
  • Share your Creations – Welcome your friends into your boutique wirelessly, trade jewelry and beads with friends, and showcase your designs in the online Style Lab gallery!”

I believe this is the perfect games for “tweens” because it introduces jewelry making in a very sweet way and teaches them about making bead jewelry and experiencing the joy of seeing your creation come to life. Sometimes as parents we would love to pass on specific passions to our children but sometimes they reject it because of our approach. Style Lab: Jewelry Design makes it fun to make jewelry without the fear of failure and it can actually endup instilling the passion for jewelry making.

This game is not on sale yet, it goes on sale on Nov 10th  but you can pre-order it directly here from Amazon and get their discount which provides you with free shipping and also a locked in pre-order price guarantee.

Till the next time we meet, remember not every that glitters with a cheap price tag is Good Inexpensive Jewelry.

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