When I was a child I think the biggest advance that the Crayola company made was coming up with enough different colors to fill up a huge box of 96 crayons, plus they added like 6 more “outer-space” colors that were neon and sparkly – which totaled the crayon pack at 102! Wow!! For me, this was awesome!! I have always loved a brand spankin’ new box of fresh crayons.
These days though, there are Crayola advances up the wazoo! They first came out with washable crayons like 5 years ago which are entirely all they are cracked up to be. Tate was a toddler at the time and he and I would draw murals on one selected wall in the family room. We’d leave it up for the day and then simply wipe it off with a wet rag the next day and start over. Wow, I was impressed (I am certain that Tate was too)
But hold onto your seats folks, there is a new thing about – ‘Color Wonder’ – it started a year ago or maybe two with markers that only write on special paper. If you write on any other surface it makes a clear invisible line (much like water would). They came out with coloring books for these markers and all kinds of fun stuff – then came the Color Wonder books you’d color and not only did your color appear on the page but so did an awesome pattern (Like a sand texture look on the beach… or waves in the water) Wow, I was impressed but it has now gotten better! Much much better!! For Christmas Tate got a paint sprayer – you put a Color Wonder paint tube in the sprayer and spray the special paper and voila! Its art! It comes with stencils too, to make all kinds of bodacious creations. My favorite though is Kyndi’s paint set. It looks like any other paint set (you know, all the tiny paint bottles with lids connected to each other in rainbow order?) The only difference is hers has colored stickers on each lid to tell you the color because inside each little canister is clear colored goo. (Yes dad, goo) You put your paintbrush in the goo and paint it on your paper and it magically changes to the color you chose. It’s magical and I love it!! It is a little difficult to paint with goo versus actual paint, but the coolness factor more than makes up for it. Even cooler – it came with a fiber optic paintbrush and the bristles actually turn the color of whatever color you are about to dip in. Crazy!! I may have had more fun that Kyndi.
These days though, there are Crayola advances up the wazoo! They first came out with washable crayons like 5 years ago which are entirely all they are cracked up to be. Tate was a toddler at the time and he and I would draw murals on one selected wall in the family room. We’d leave it up for the day and then simply wipe it off with a wet rag the next day and start over. Wow, I was impressed (I am certain that Tate was too)
But hold onto your seats folks, there is a new thing about – ‘Color Wonder’ – it started a year ago or maybe two with markers that only write on special paper. If you write on any other surface it makes a clear invisible line (much like water would). They came out with coloring books for these markers and all kinds of fun stuff – then came the Color Wonder books you’d color and not only did your color appear on the page but so did an awesome pattern (Like a sand texture look on the beach… or waves in the water) Wow, I was impressed but it has now gotten better! Much much better!! For Christmas Tate got a paint sprayer – you put a Color Wonder paint tube in the sprayer and spray the special paper and voila! Its art! It comes with stencils too, to make all kinds of bodacious creations. My favorite though is Kyndi’s paint set. It looks like any other paint set (you know, all the tiny paint bottles with lids connected to each other in rainbow order?) The only difference is hers has colored stickers on each lid to tell you the color because inside each little canister is clear colored goo. (Yes dad, goo) You put your paintbrush in the goo and paint it on your paper and it magically changes to the color you chose. It’s magical and I love it!! It is a little difficult to paint with goo versus actual paint, but the coolness factor more than makes up for it. Even cooler – it came with a fiber optic paintbrush and the bristles actually turn the color of whatever color you are about to dip in. Crazy!! I may have had more fun that Kyndi.
A fresh box of Crayon is still on my list of favorite things in life – but in the absence of that, I’d take this paint anytime. Seriously – you should all rush out and try it!!
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