Colorforms Activity Toys Original 60th Anniversary Edition
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Toys and Games Reviews of Colorforms Activity Toys Original 60th Anniversary Edition
Customer Review: Great Fun to Play with a Child!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are creative and have a child whom you love, this is an ideal toy! The shapes allow one to create numerous pictures, the colors are bright, and the book in which the pieces are housed makes an ideal carrying case.
I purchased this for my daughter's niece who is four years old and very active. She rarely sits still and, like many children today, is more enthralled by video games and movies than creative playthings. However, when I sat down to play Colorforms with her, we created things for over an hour without her losing interest. I do not think she will play with this toy alone as she is not spatially oriented or someone who thinks creatively.
This toy is best for someone who is more design oriented or for parents/grandparents to engage with a child in a play activity.
The pieces are originally in sheet form and attached to individual pages in the storage book. One must peel them carefully to avoid losing pieces which have not been fully cut in the manufacturing process. The scrap has many large sections that can be used to cut additional shapes - hearts, leaves, etc. to provide additional flexibility of design. We had no difficulty with the pieces sticking to the two boards provided for designing, and were also able to stick them on windows and the refrigerator.
One warning, I was the only adult in a group of six (one 60, three 50-somethings, and two parents in their 20's) who had ever heard of or played with Colorforms. If you have any doubts, you might want to be sure someone knows what to do with this wonderfully creative toy.
Customer Review: "Its Colorform Fun!" - Higly Recommended!
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW, it is SO cool that they brought these back! "Colorforms" are one of the few toys from my childhood (a long time ago :-) that I can remember playing with all the time. See these also brought back memories of the commercial and it's tag line, "Its Colorform Fun!". What a trip!
OK, on to my review:
We have a set to keep kids busy while parents shop in our small store.
The set contains 350 Colorform shapes, in a spiral bound book, and two boards to position them on. The pieces are made out of a vinyl like material, so they are very soft and will cling to other surfaces as well.
We found that 5 to 8 year olds really enjoyed these and even kids up to 12 or so showed some interest, which was a surprise to us as the older kids are mostly into electronic games. The best reactions always come from the adults who see these and almost always say, "Oh, I remember those"
The pieces are durable, colorful, and stick just fine to the included boards and each other. This allows for the creation of almost any shapes and patterns. It is important to make sure the pieces are returned back to their original sheets when kids are done playing with them to keep them from getting bent or lost and the spiral bound book makes this convenient.
This toy brings out the creative side of children and most will have hours of fun creating abstract works of art. We are occasionally surprised by the kids who use overlapping shapes to make realistic works, like cars, faces, houses, etc.
Highly recommended!
Customer Review: Delightful, educational, creative, entertaining and loads of fun.
Summary: 5 Stars
Colorforms were first marketed in 1951 and I was probably a bit too old for them. I frankly don't remember if we got them for our son or not. That too was a long time ago.
Now I have grandchildren whom I indulge. Of course, nearly everything I get them is something thst I think I'd enjoy.
On that point, Colorforms rate high. They are ideal for a young imagination - or an old one.
The concept is elegantly simple: die-cut vinyl pieces that adhere to glossy surfaces, like the two cardboard sheets they provide, windows or each other. The child can try for representational images (i.e., faces), patterns or whatever they want. (I feel certain artists like Piet Mondrian and Frank Stella would have loved Colorforms.)
No adult supervision is required, other than keeping the kids from hogging all of one color or shape. And, depending on their mood, it can keep children occupied for some time.
All in all, a lot of fun for kids and grownups. Gotta enforce the rule that they play with the Colorforms in one place and not carry them around the house, though. Things are murderous to pick up when they're spread out.
Overall, a fun, durable toy that provides many hours of fun to the young ones - and the old ones, as well.
Jerry
Customer Review: Very fun toy
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this toy for my daughter when she was 2.5 years old. She loved it from the start and still plays with it often six months later. At this age, she doesn't make the type of pictures that older kids would, but she likes arranging the pieces on the floor or on the included boards. When she gets older, I expect that she will like making pictures, too.
Our pieces stick well to the boards. The stick even better to each other, so when you make a pile of pieces when cleaning up, they stay together nicely.
I think any kid that enjoys stickers will have fun with Colorforms. A big advantage that Colorforms have is that you have the option of picking up and moving the shapes. Plus, you don't have to worry about Colorforms being annoyingly stuck to things like furniture and trying to scrape them off.
One good tip I got before buying this set is to NOT discard the extra vinyl between the shapes. You can cut extra shapes from this material - such as crescents (great for smiles on faces), stars, flowers, etc.
The only negative of this toy is that after six months of use, the corners of the boards are looking a bit frayed, but after that much use from a toddler, that is understandable.
Customer Review: A bit disappointed
Summary: 3 Stars
I was so excited to get this Colorforms set for my five year old daughter. We are a homeschooling family and I thought this would be a great educational toy for us. However, I was disappointed by the boards that come in the set. They are not sticky. Well, the white one is decent (though not great by any means) but the black one is completely useless! Nothing sticks to it at all. Also I was not impressed with the shapes that were included in the set. I felt that there should have been more sizes of the basic shapes and not so many long straight lines. All in all it's a decent toy but I am very glad that I was able to snag it for nearly $8.00 at Christmastime rather than pay 20-30 dollars for it. If I had I would have been quite irritated.
(The reviewer was compensated for posting this review. However, the opinion stated in the review is that of the reviewer and the reviewer alone. Further, the reviewer independently selected this product to review and has no affiliation with the product maker/distributor, Amazon or the review requester.)