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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!
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+
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 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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I think my kids would love the crayon maker!
I love the color bath drops. I know my grandson would love them.
theblackat at hotmail dot com
The Crayola 3D Dry Erase Board looks really neat!
Glow explosion looks awesome! My son would love it.
telescoping crayon case!
I love the To Go stations..like Glow Explosion!
Crazy Snow everywhere but here in Alaska!! huh?
the on the go glow station is great suelee1998 @ gmail.com
crayon maker looks messy, but fun!
The crayola glow dome looks cool!
My son would love the Sponge Bob Color ‘N Smell kit.
I like the Crayon maker.
The sound studio looks interesting!
The Glow Station really looks neat!
Crayon maker looks interesting.
I think the Crayola® Model Magic Presto Dots to the Max – for Boys! (23-2250) sounds like a lot of fun!!
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.
I think the crayon maker looks like fun!
my daughters spend hours at their “art” table — an old plastic picnic table. They would enjoy any of these.
my daughter loves to draw and create things. She’d love the sound board or the glow board.
The Crayola® Model Magic Presto Dots Minis: Cake/Ice Cream, Looks fun!
the telescoping crayon tower sounds really cool!
I love that they have a whole “mess-free” section!
I think the colored bubbles look really neat!
slzz@mail.com
All of the new fun products they have been coming out with! begd at live dot com
My nephew would love the sound studio.
I like the telescoping crayon case.
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
I’m really interested in the Color Wonder finger paints!
The presto dots look very interesting!
The Sound Studio seems rad!
Thanks!
I love the Color Wonder Sound Studio
Thank you for hosting this giveaway
Louis
schnitzomage {at} gmail {dot} com
The Crayola Beginnings Bop & Color for babies looks interesting and awesome!
The Pop Art Pixies Color Glow Lamps seem interesting!
I like the Crayola Disney Mini Coloring Pages-Toy Story and the Crayola Chalk Maker – Wild Safari.
The Crayola® USB EZ Type Keyboard is cute
cjwallace43 at gmail dot com
the Jumbles look interesting to me! I didn’t realize Crayola had so many fun things!
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
I like the scribble and sing art station…It’s perfect for little ones to start practicing their artistic side:)
ashleygatewood@mail.com
I like the glow dome.
I like their twistable crayons a lot. Thanks for the chance!
The color twister spin art looks really neat
The color me a song product looks interesting.
The Crayon Maker looks like fun
I think my son would love the Color Me a Song activity set. His two favorite things all in one.
Color Wonder Sound Studio looks awesome 🙂
My favorite is the Crayola Crayon Maker
My daughter would love any of the crayola product. She spends hours at her art desk.
I like Crayola Crayon Maker.
We could really use a Crayola Crayon Maker
Donna
I like the Scribble and Sing Art Station. Thanks!
jackievillano at gmail dot com
I also like the Glow Dome! Thanks! melissaroehl at gmail dot com
the model magic kits look like lots of fun
The Glow Explosion Spin Magic looks like tons of fun for both of my kids.
the glow explosion spin magic looks interesting
tcogbill at live dot com
The Glow Explosion would be the thing for my two year old son and my three year old niece
jacksoncrisman@yahoo.com
My kids would love the telescoping crayon case.
I know a few kids that would love to try the crayon maker.
glow station on the go