Color Wonder Deluxe Set
by Crayola
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: CrayolaBrand: Binney & Smith
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Model: 75-2004
Product features:
- Mess-Free Colors only on Color Wonder Paper
- Great Pictures - Colors only appear inside the lines
- Ability to use Color Wonder anytime and anywhere
- Includes: 1 Color Wonder Coloring Book, 1 Color Wonder Tablet, 6 Color Wonder Markers & 1 storage pouch
Toys and Games Reviews of Color Wonder Deluxe Set
Customer Review: Great Idea, Not-So-Great Execution
Summary: 3 Stars
The fact that these markers only write on the special paper is brilliant and a true sanity-saver for parents, especially on airplanes and long car trips or in restaurants, but BOO! to Crayola for making the coloring books so it's impossible to draw outside the lines on the pictures.
One of the many reasons coloring is such a great activity for kids is that it helps to develop their fine motor skills as they learn to control their hand and keep the color within the lines, but with these coloring books marks outside the lines are invisible, which means it's nearly impossible for the child to see for themselves how well they're controlling the marker.
And then when kids want to deliberately color outside the lines, their creativity is stifled. For example, my 3-year-old wanted to draw a hat on one of the animals' heads the other day, and wound up confused and very frustrated by the fact that it wasn't possible. She had to switch to crayons to do what she wanted, which is fine, but it sort of begs the question: Why bother with the markers in the first place?
Crayola does make pads of plain, picture-free paper for the Color Wonder markers, where you can write on the entire surface of the sheet, and those are very good for drawing and writing. But for coloring in pictures we'll stick with regular coloring books and Crayola's washable markers and crayons from now on, which have the added benefit of being far less expensive than the Color Wonder stuff.
Description of Color Wonder Deluxe Set
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