VStoy Security Fashion Hourglass Sand Timer … (Orange 20 Minutes)

My granddaughter enjoys turning it over at the start of dinner. Want dessert? Gotta try one bite of everything on your plate and otherwise eat a substantial part of your meal before the sand runs out. It's made dinner time less of a struggle for this fussy eater. We expect to use in in other situations down the road. I love the attractive and low-tech appearance. So does my granddaughter. It is sturdy and safe for a child to handle.

This is an excellent and sturdy sand timer. When I pulled it out of the box my son reacted with astonished delight because it turns out that his second-grade teacher had a whole set of these timers in her classroom. It does work as a timer, but this is thousands-year-old technology; I really only used timing my son's homework as an excuse to get a big sand timer. If you used to play with egg timers or the minute timers that come in some games, but wished they would run longer, you will love this. Everyone in the family has spent at least 20 minutes just watching the sand fall. My son does occasionally use it for his homework but usually uses a modern timer cube instead, which is more practical. I've used the sand timer for piano practice, and the nice feature for this purpose is the lack of an annoying alarm - if the sand runs out in the middle of a song I can keep playing to the end of the song without interruption. But mostly we use this as a somewhat mesmerizing toy. The timer is accurate in the sense that it will always run for the exact same amount of time; this time may differ from 20 minutes by up to 10%, as is clearly stated on the top of the timer, so an individual timer will have a "setting" (not adjustable) of between 18 and 22 minutes.

I got this in pink for my 4 year old'sTV/ iPad usage. It works wonderfully, is pretty sturdy, and has eliminated the pain of "negotiating" when media time is up. I like it better than the kitchen timer because she can physically see how much time has passed and how much is left.

I bought this one and the one hour timer. Only off by less than 30 seconds. Very sturdy, like a giant egg timer! Perfect for kids and if you want to time yourself practicing music.

I rarely take the time to write reviews on products that I buy. I admit it I'm very lazy. But I thought I'd drop a quick line or two about how absolutely terrible this 20 minute hour glass is. When the VStoy hourglass arrived, it comes as a standard hourglass encased in a hard plastic container. But when we got ours the hourglass was crooked inside the container. No big deal I thought, this thing is cheap. Don't expect much. And even though my expectations were in the cellar, this piece of crap still manages to disappoint. After 4 or 5 uses, sand began to slowly work it's way out of the hourglass and into the hard container. And after maybe 5 more uses after that it actually started to spill out of the container and onto the table! Wow, talk about terrible build quality!! I think I paid less that 13 bucks for this junk and it feels like I spent about 12 bucks too much. Do not buy this hourglass until the reviews start to get better. AVOID!

We use this for our 4 year old to help her understand time. We mainly use it at the dinner table so she firsbt dawdle ( only employed after everyone else is done eating and she’s still only taken 3 bites because she has been chatting all dinner!) It’s much better than the numerical timer we were using because she can’t read clocks and has no concept of “you have 10 minutes to finish if you want a treat!” “ only 8 minutes left!” “Okay, take another bite... the time is half gone but you still have a lot of food” etc

I absolutely love these. Big enough to see across a room and a great visual for my kids when they are in a time out. I only give it four because it could be sturdier. One (I have 3) has some small cracks on the outside when it was dropped. Only visual not structural damage but still.

Great for quite time! I use this for my three yr old granddaughter to time her afternoon hour of rest. She is ussually asleep before the sand is finished running. Also good for holiday cooking if you have several dishes cooking.

très pratique à utiliser avec des jeunes enfants qui ne savent pas se repérer sur une horloge...par exemple pour visualiser le temps qui reste pour finir une activité

I am a teacher and this comes in handy when you want to provide kids with a visual on how much time is left for certain activity. It is much cheaper compare to the price they are selling at the other educational supplies stores. There is a +/- 10% error, but it is not a big deal to me.

good

My students love this item and they are in awe of how it functions. I like how durable it is and it's size.

Je l'utilise pour changer d'activité avec mon enfant de 4 ans (ex aller à table, dormir, partir, etc). Ne semble pas très solide, mais pour le moment il fonctionne.