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Make it a Crayola Holiday With These HOT Gifts

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Crayola has created an on-line gift guide making it easy to select the perfect creative activity for the child on your list. It’s available at Crayola. You can search it by age, gender and type of product, like mess-free and washable products and activities that offer surprising experiences.

I was lucky enough to receive some of Crayola’s Hot Gifts for this Holiday Season. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pictures but my kids had a blast with all of these new toys! I think the biggest hit was the presto dots, my three-year-old can’t stop playing with it!

Glow Explosion Spin Magic

Never before has paper been a surface for creating glowing drawings! Glow Explosion Spin Magic is a revolutionary activity toy that lets kids create multi-colored glow-in-the-dark art with markers that light up like glow sticks on paper. The spinning base lets kids create magical mobiles and whirling lanterns for a never-before-seen “glow show” that will wow the entire family when the lights go out. Colorful, glowing shapes like planets or hot air balloons appear as if they are spinning in mid-air. The base unit doubles as a lantern with five different scenes that create cool shadow-effects as they rotate around the radiant, glowing designs created on Glow Explosion paper. $19.99, 6+

Crayola Color Wonder Sound Studio

The Crayola Color Wonder Sound Studio makes coloring a magical mess-free adventure for little eyes and ears! Kids can add fun, action-packed sound effects like dinosaur roars, motorcycle engines, giggles and even the voices of Buzz Lightyear, Woody and the Disney Princesses to their coloring pages. Sounds playback when they color their pictures. Just choose a sound and add it anywhere on the coloring page to create one-of-a-kind coloring stories with surprising sound effects. Kids can also play back all the sounds they experienced while they were coloring. Sixty sounds can be matched to any image on any page for hours of colorful fun! $29.99, 3+

Crayola Model Magic Presto Dots

Crayola Model Magic Presto Dots received “Toy of the Year” honors from Good Housekeeping, Parenting and Parents magazines. The “magic” behind Presto Dots comes from Model Magic’s – a truly different modeling material that doesn’t crumble. It’s not clay, it’s not dough – it’s Crayola Model Magic. Kids can create 3-D, bumpy characters with the easy-to-use “Pop-Dot” tool that grabs just the right amount of Model Magic for building an original creature. A quick press and pop covers characters with presto dots. Pop away with different colored dots, or pop dots on top of dots to create original 3-D creatures that air-dry in 24 hours. $19.99, 5+

So why are Crayola crayons, a holiday classic and a perennial stocking stuffer on the list? This year, specially-marked Crayola crayon boxes (48, 64, 96, 120-ct. as well as the 150-ct. Crayon Tower) include a free code that provides 6-month unlimited access to the Story Studio custom coloring bookmaker. What a great value! Available at Crayola.com, Story Studio allows kids to transform themselves into a cartoon character from a digital photo or webcam image, customize their character with hats, sunglasses, costumes and other fun accessories and then select a theme to create a custom storybook they can print and color. Story Studio was named “High Tech Toy of the Year” by the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. $5-$15, 3+

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  16. I think the Crayola® Model Magic Presto Dots to the Max – for Boys! (23-2250) sounds like a lot of fun!!

  17. The glow station would be something that my 6 year old would definitely love. I know it is on his wish list for this year.

  19. my daughters spend hours at their “art” table — an old plastic picnic table. They would enjoy any of these.

  28. The dry erase activity center sounds like it would be hours of (non-messy) fun and easy to take to church, restaurants, etc. Didn’t know Crayola made something like that.

    Thanks for the chance to win!

    –Liza

    ejm6x (at) yahoo (dot) com

  32. I love the Color Wonder Sound Studio

    Thank you for hosting this giveaway

    Louis
    schnitzomage {at} gmail {dot} com

  35. I like the Crayola Disney Mini Coloring Pages-Toy Story and the Crayola Chalk Maker – Wild Safari.

  38. I like the crayola wonder–especially now that my daughter is interested—she is 2 1/2 and really can’t make a messs from thoses

  45. I think my son would love the Color Me a Song activity set. His two favorite things all in one.

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