As part of the Mom Advisory Panel for Crayola, I get to or rather my children get to try out various products from Crayola every few months. While Crayola sometimes challenges my inner picky neat freak, I have yet to be truly disappointed or unhappy with their products. Better yet whenever I pull out the familiar green and yellow packaging, my kids get excited because they know something fun is in store.
Pop Art Pixies: Ice Chandelier
Maya’s Ice Chandelier is a fun way to add a touch of cool class to any room. Create custom designs that crystallize like ice with the Ice Markers…then link it all together and hang it. Retail: $14.99 Ages 8+
My oldest really had a ton of fun with this. It may look complicated but she pretty much had it out of the box and partway assembled without so much as a glance at the instructions or any involvement from me. The biggest role I played in this was helping her pop out the silver discs from the sheet. It’s amazing how pretty this looks.
At first there was some frustration because she’d color the discs and then it would smudge because she wanted to assemble it right away. After a quick look at the instructions, we realized we needed to let the ice marker dry on the discs before handling it any further. It didn’t take long and then she had a smudge free decoration.
There are a lot of discs to color and so to avoid that overwhelming feeling or need to rush to get done, we decided that this was a multi-day project.
It’s going to be very pretty when done.
Color Wonder Magic Lightbrush Mess-Free paintbrush that magically lights up in the color of each clear Color Wonder&trade paint! Now includes Color Wonder&trade Metallic Paper for extra shiny metal effects! Retail: $26.49 Age 6+
Again another fun product. My five year old daughter was thrilled to try this out. It didn’t take long for her to grasp the few simple requirements to make things work well… like wiping the brush between paint colors and how to unscrew and rinse off the paintbrush tip when you’re done. We set her up with some paper towel and away she went.
What I particularly liked about this was that we weren’t dealing with cups of water like you do with water paints so there were no issues of too much water soaking the paper etc. What my five year old liked about it was how pretty the metallic paper made every color look. Now we didn’t successfully create the bright colours like it shows in the picture on the box nor was she able to do any finer sort of lines etc because the brush is quite broad but she was happy with what she was able to draw. In the end, isn’t that what it’s all about?
oooh shiny
Crayola Color Wonder Marvel Superhero Activity Book.
18 page Marvel Superhero Squad coloring pad and five Color Wonder markers. Retail: $11.65 Age 3+
If you have a little colourer like mine, meaning they like to colour EVERYTHING including themselves, this has got to be the miracle product of the century. It is truly mess free. I can hand this book and a basket of color wonder markers to my son and let him colour to his heart content without worry. I have even taken to bringing one of these activity books to Church to keep my son occupied.
Plus Crayola has a variety of themes from Handy Manny to Toy Story to Superheroes sure to please any boy and Tinkerbell and Princess themes to charm the little girl in your life.
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Disclosure: products for review are provided to me by Crayola. I do not receive any other compensation and the thoughts an opinions herein reflect my true experience with the products.
I love Crayola. Truly. I haven't seen the shiny metallic paint though. I may have to try that. Thanks for stopping by on my SITS day!
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