Crayola Color Wonder Disney Pixar's Cars The Movie - Mess Free Cars Coloring!
Written: May 20 '07 (Updated Jul 06 '07)
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Pros: Easy to use, hidden features
Cons: None for us
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line is Cars and Crayola Color Wonder fans will love this!
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| KMINER's Full Review: Crayola® Color Wonder Disney Pixar's Cars The... |
My 2 kids love coloring, and they both vary in ages, interests and ability levels. My 7 year old son is the oldest, and he has re-found his love for coloring and drawing since his much younger (18 months) sister has developed a love for all coloring material. It's an activity they love to sit at their small Little Tykes table and do together in the evenings ... but I was having little bits of crayons go everywhere (especially on the 18 month old's part!)
I needed to find a diverse enough product that they both could use and enjoy. As well I needed something that didn't require a lot of parent direct support and cleaning.
Some on-line Epinions parents suggested I check out the Color Wonders product line. Though I had vaguely seen these products in stores and on commercials, I admit I never really had checked them out. I thought it was just special paper and markers to use ... but I didn't realize there was pre-printed,themed coloring sets as well.
For our son we purchased the Crayola Color Wonder Disney Pixar's Cars The Movie set. He fell in love with the movie, Cars, last summer and has a large number of their merchandise. We thought he'd find the pictures entertaining enough to color in and sit with his younger sibling.
Product information:
"Color Wonder is a guaranteed success! Colors only appear inside the coloring book lines (pre-printed images) so kids get a great picture every time. Color Wonder is Mess Free!
Contains: 6 Color Wonder markers and one 24-page Disney Pixar's Cars The Movie Coloring Book.
Manufacturer's Age: 3 years and up"
The kit comes with a 24 page spiral bound coloring book of characters and scenes from the Cars movie. The pictures are very true representations of the movie, and very identifyable. Each picture is printed on Color Wonder paper with black outlined image to color in. The images are only on the front sides of each paper.
The pictures vary and so there is a wide variety, all relating to the movie. I like that the pictures don't just show 1 or 2 characters, as all kids have their own personal favorites. Of course our son flipped to the Lightning McQueen pages first to color them in!
The markers came housed in a paper marker case, similar to one bought for most Crayola markers. Personally I would have loved some sort of more durable container or plastic, but alas. As typical for Color Wonder markers, there is a pack of 6, each in a different color. The colors are chosen I think to be "typical" ones for coloring scenes from this movie - meaning there was a red for Lightning, Brown for Mater, etc. Having owned other kits by now in addition to this Cars set, I have noticed that each kit comes with differing markers based on what the kid might be coloring (for example my daughter owns a "princess" set which instead contained a light blue and pink). Since any other Color Wonder marker would work with this kit, and since we have other kits, we personally have a wide variety of marker colors to choose from ... but if you purchase just this kit rest assured that you will have the main 6 colors you'd need to color in at each page.
Color Wonders markers are set up on a "delay" - meaning that the marker tips themselves are clear, and you'll need to begin coloring in the area in the picture first and then the color appears about 5-8 seconds after it is applied. It just appears in the color you are using, and it only appears in the spots you've colored - so in that respect they are like typical markers. But this type does not have immediate/instant results ... kids should be prepared to see "just white" for a few seconds while the marker reacts to the paper.
Also the markers will not mark on skin, clothing, walls, and the like. Though our son is at an age where he clearly knows not to even attempt this, because his younger sister also uses these markers it's been nice to know that she really cannot do any "damage" with them. He's old enough to color and recap, but since he's still at an age where marker can easily bleed all over his skin, it's nice to know I'm not going to have to stand over the sink washing and re-washing his hands after using this!
The pages are not a "color by number" set, so there is no prescribed color to color anything, though most children familiar with the movie will strive to use colors appropriate for the picture. To a degree the child can color "outside the lines", but again since the picture area is "waiting" for the color, certain areas will remain white no matter what.
What has truly fascinated my son is the "behind the scenes" graphics. On each page is a hidden detail. It's always in a white space and it's usually in an area you wouldn't "think" to color in - for example the "dead" white space above a picture of a car. We really only found this out from my younger daughter scribbling all over her kit, and then noticing "other" things were starting to appear! Since this discovery my son has been thrilled to go into each picture and find the hidden graphics. So far we've found a checkered flag pattern above one page of Lightning's head, flames above Ramone's car, a #1 in a trophy, a cloud of dust behind Lightning, 2 stacks of tires behind Luigi, and so on. I personally love that the hidden graphics relate really well to the picture on that page.
As we've colored with this kit more and more we've realized something else as well. In our regular coloring we've not really noticed where these hidden graphics might be, and have been pleasantly surprised when we've found them. As we were coloring one afternoon though in front of our large bay window, we noticed in "natural" light you can see all of the white markings of "where to color" ... including the hidden images!
Overall we've really gotten a lot of use out of the Crayola Color Wonder Disney Pixar's Cars The Movie and plan to purchase other kits appropriate for his interests as this booklet gets filled up.
Our Disney Princess Color Wonders Set
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 7.00
Type of Toy: Arts and Crafts
Age Range of Child: 6 to 8 Years
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