Art Coloring Kits West Linn OR

Color 'n Create Art Kits

Toy Review:

In the past, you had to get a little messy to make great art, and many parents and caregivers shied away from this classic-and important-imagination building play. Fortunately not anymore! Color 'n Create Art Kits are a part of Elmer's easy-to-use, no mess arts and crafts line. Each kit is designed to entertain and engage kids in creative ways, while allowing parents to enjoy their child's artistic endeavors without the worry of spills, marks, and endless clean-ups.

With today's hottest characters from Disney Princess, Disney Fairies, and My Little Pony to Disney/Pixar's Cars and Batman, Color 'n Create Art Kits offer a range of arts and crafts supplies that allow for endless creativity. Each kit comes complete with eight markers, 12 crayons, two 5x7 line art character posters, one 6x8 art pad, one stencil, and one sticker sheet.

Manufacturer:
Elmer's

Brand:
Elmer's

Age Recommendation:
4 and up

MSRP:
$5.99

Intro Year:
2009...

Toy Review:

Get ready for a new way to play with color thanks to Crayola and Wild Planet who have teamed up for a new line of Crayola-themed games. The new games focus on recreating images and matching and mixing colors, all without the use and mess of traditional art supplies.

Color Mix-A-Roo is an impressive game that teaches players about primary and secondary colors. A cleverly constructed palette permits color mixing without a mess. Colors come pre-printed on the palette, which has a center dial similar to that of a rotary phone. Players dial in combinations of two, three, or four colors to make their desired shades.

In addition to mixing primary colors, players learn about tinting—combining white with a color to make it lighter. This allows for the creation of pink, lavender, beige, and other light colors.

Players flip cards to find out which secondary or tinted colors they need to create. Each card contains a color and a number. The number indicates how many colors the player can mix together to make the shade shown on the card. If players select a card with a green object on it and the number two, they know they can make the color green by mixing two colors. If they dial yellow and blue on the palette, the same green that appears on the card will appear behind the palette's revealer door.

When players are done dialing their colors, they open the revealer door to see if their combination is correct. If it is, they keep the card that has the color th...