Side by Side Comparison of: Elmer's vs Elmers Stick Glue

I’m not going to talk about the obvious with these Elmer’s All Purpose School Glue Sticks. Do they stick? Yes. Are they easy to wash off hands and clothes? Hands down. Non-toxic and acid-free? Of course. No, what truly sets these glue tubes above the rest in my humble opinion is that cute bull cartoon proudly displayed above such a respected name in the adhesive’s industry. I can’t get enough of Elmer the Bull. I’m not saying I’d want him as a pet, but if I did, Kansas City would be the place to keep him. Why? Because KC has the world’s largest concentration of animal health industry assets in segments spanning food safety, pet care, and animal science. I love Kansas City for that reason among many, and I know Elmer would too.

This "bulk" quantity is perfect for someone like me who does a lot of shipping. I can print my labels on plain paper and use this adhesive to affix them to the respective packages. The purple color is quite useful to tell where the adhesive has and has not been applied. The price, I felt, was fair since I live in a rural area and trips to the store are inconvenient at best.

We have a brand new kindergartener! So that means mountains of glue sticks will be sacrificed this year. This is the best deal I've found. I've bought 2 boxes so far and plan on more. I want to give them out instead of candy for class parties.Kindergarten never has enough so make a teacher happy and pick some up to donate. They shouldn't have to spend their own money and school funding probably isn't getting better any time soon.

Saw these on sale and it was a great deal!!! Gave them to my kids teachers- off brand glue sticks don't always work well but these are great!!! My order came promptly in 2 days and I would definitely reccomend these over any other brand of glue stick- they work very well!!

This is a great deal on Elmer's glue and was a nice surprise for my grandson's teacher. I asked his teacher what something was that she could use for the classroom as an extra item to make things easier for her and better for the kiddos and her response was that they could always use glue sticks.There are 15 kids in his classroom so I figured this would last them for most of the school year and at that price you can't beat it. Way cheaper than purchasing in the stores in smaller packs.They are still in brand new condition and glide across the paper so they are not dried out at all. I am super happy about these and will be purchasing more as the teacher runs out. Easy way to give back to the classroom and make things better for the teacher and the students.

Can one ever have too many glue stick? When you have 3 children with 2 of them in grade school and 1 of them wanting to glue something on everything every day then the answer is NO. I bought this Box of glue stick right before school let out to glue things to my daughter's student council posters. Since she was running for student council vice president she had to make some posters, some of the letters we had bought her had glue on them, but it was only at the top, like how sticky notes are, with the glue sticks we were able to glue the letters down completely. I love the glue sticks because they are less messy, my wish is that they made these in a narrow tip so you can write with them and put glitter on it.

great buy! These work great for decoupage!

I needed something that would give a "clean" even application. This worked very well. My project is coming along quite efficiently.

Bought these to use with my 3d printer, for the price you can't beat this deal, these will last me a very long time!

As with some other items I reviewed for my preschool purchase, I probably could have saved money leveraging the sales at Walmart and other places for back to school. This aside the product is from a known family Elmer's and sticks and applies easily

It a glue stick. These are the same as they were 40 years ago. Kids love them for craft projects. Much cleaner than the liquid glue.

More than any other glue stick, I love Elmers brand, it just glides better than the others and doesn't gum up. It's also wonderful with my sewing machine. As a quilter, I use this for turn edge applique.

These are good for kids. My sons use them to glue all their activities. These are the only brand I will buy. These sticks are small, but they are at great deal when I bought them.

Purple glue, don't know how I was able to survive my childhood crafts without this! We use this at work to seal envelopes. ( you should not use saliva) It helps to know where the glue is, working with it can be messy!

They are clear & not the purple that turns clear, which is what I was expecting. However they are working as intended for English paper piecing. I tried the more expensive refills for the glue pens (Fons & Porter) & found these to be no different & much less expensive.

I always buy these for my son's school donation. I'm not sure about the quality of the glue sticks because I don't get to actually use them, but my son's teacher seems to like them. I did open one cap to see if the glue is dry, and it wasn't.

I got these to donate to my child's teachers. These are just a 30 pack of elmers stick glue. I had no issues with them at all. I checked them all out. Nothing strange or abnormal. It is elmers glue so not much I can say about it. It was a good price for a 30 pack. I paid full price for this product and this is my honest and unbiased review.

They are glue. They make stuff stick. Work great for gluing things into sixth grade interactive science notebooks. I do wish the formula was slightly firmer to promote conservation. Thirty sticks allow for approximately fifteen sixth grader applications. Last way longer if you closely monitor usage and give a mini lesson on the light-swipe-outline method.

It is what you see, what you get. Nothing fancy, I just didn’t want to go to Walmart.

I bought these for the company Christmas luncheon we hosted at a local restaurant. These helped keep the kids occupied. Good deal.

Box only came with 58 glue sticks, box was open and glue sticks were rolling around in a huge shipping box.The glue is great, shipping was bad.

The glue didn't hold and most glue sticks had a limited amount of glue. I teach kindergarten and first graders so glue sticks that meet there standards are important.

I use interactive notebooks in my classroom. We go through a lot of glue sticks. I bought this just before Christmas 2016. In a notebook check a week later, students papers were not sticking to the pages at all. I am saddened and wasted money on this! Believe me, the students used plenty of glue, but it just did not stick in the long term. Going to try the non-disappearing and see if that works better. Stay tuned!

These gluesticks are good for the money, I guess, but the glue doesn't hold well. It's not sticky going on, and it dries out without sticking things together

Just ok. Dries so fast, the kids can barely get their papers together fast enough. Then, once they are together, papers pop off & won't stay stuck together. Takes A LOT of glue to get things glued properly. I have since purchased Elmer's Extra Strength glue sticks, which are much better.

Price was fine and we needed MANY glue sticks for 1st grade. Well, the box arrived and this Elmer's glue stick box was not taped shut or anything. Sure enough when I opened the box, it looked like glue sticks were missing. Sure enough, 4 of them were.But I guess opportunity makes for thieves, and since the box was not taped shut, it is quite easy for some sticks to go missing somewhere between production and shipping...

The glue sticks are fine, but the packaging was not as pictured. I specifically looked for ones that were not purple glue, but on arrival these proved to be the purple ones. Oh well.

It was fantastic to get so many glue sticks for such a great price the only problem was the glue does not actually stick very well and I found myself run the glue stick over things so many times I just decided to use tape.

For the 30 glue sticks I only received 27. The 27th stick did not have a top and was completely dried out. Very disappointed. Very hard to open the packageging because all the sticks were swirling around in the plastic.The crayons were loose in the box and several tips were broken. The bottom of the box has been "colored" from sliding around in shipping.

Dried out

I use glue sticks to adhere my homemade pop up books and cards. This one doesn't adhere nearly as well as some others!? Frustrating!

The glue doesn't work very well. I teach preschool and the children are often frustrated using these. I will go back to the Scotch brand next time.

Very small and the glue does not work well at all. We have to put a lot of glue and it still doesn't always hold well - and this is on paper.

These were the worst glue sticks I have ever purchased. Nearly every one broke and was unusable.

The package came with ten glue sticks missing. So I only got 20 instead of the 30.

I was really disappointed. These are the small narrow glue sticks. I need bigger glue sticks for my second grader. Very disappointed indeed that I had to purchase additional glue sticks for this school year.

What happened to Elmers glue sticks? They run out so quickly. Chunks of glue come off when you use them. My students only get one or two uses out of them. Not the quality I grew up with.

I bought this to use in my classroom. All my students have an interactive notebook, which requires a lot of cutting and gluing worksheets and foldables. I am not sure if i just so happened to receive a defective box, but the glue does not keep my students worksheets or foldables on the page. Students are always having to apply more glue to previously glued entries. Very disappointed.

Disappointed - product arrived with not all of the "60" glue sticks included. I actually counted because part of the box looked empty. I ordered 2 boxes of these glue sticks and each box was short.

Received package damaged.....

Cost

Terrible. Just didn't stick well at all for me. Followed idiot directions...apply, stick to clean surface (duh). Very easy to apply but not much stick.