Color Explosion : Drawing Pads product reviews

I liked the way the colours just appeared as you draw your design. I alos liked the colours and the patterns that come out of the black pages. I would like to see pages coloured blue because blue is my favourite colour.
I felt like doing them while in the car on long drives because then I have more time and I get to see lots of things like plants that I can draw.

One of the few things to keep my daughter entertained for any length of time is art. Drawing, painting, drawing and painting, anything that involves glue and the possibility of making mess or art (I can never tell the difference at times) can keep this busy little brain occupied for hours.

Somehow I didn't think this Colour Explosions would really cut it - how wrong I was. We first got this pack out on the aeroplane to the UK and left her to it. Naturally there was an abundance of art produced at the end of 24 hours of travelling.

What did surprise me was my parent's reaction to the art and the Colour Explosions pack - in fact, my dad couldn't wait to have a go. It wasn't long after that my mother and my sister had a go - after being 'shown' how to by my daughter.

A simple idea, and cleverly executed and something that can occupy kids for hours for a low cost investment - and that investment is well worth it to keep your little angels quiet for a few hours.

This is a new take on the old use a scraper on a black page to draw a multi-coloured picture. In this the pictures are all pre-drawn, but that still doesn't take away from the fun of tracing the lines to reveal a multi-coloured scene of wonderous proportions.

However it does require a steady hand (which I definitely do not possess. ) but my two boys gave it a great shot and have done some really wonderful artwork with this, and with twenty pages in each pack you really can have a lot of fun with this.

I can't wait for my boys to do more of these so I can stick even more up on the walls

On a recent long trip north, I ended up taking my young son with me. It was going to be an exercise in frustration for me, and boredom for him... until about half an hour into the 7 hour trip, he opened his newly-assembled travel fun bag, and found some of these inside... what a whoop of joy he let out!

He's always enjoyed drawing, but this kit added a whole new dimension to it for him. His silence for the next 2 hours had me wondering if he had actually fallen asleep, but no, happily scribbling away drawing pictures of strange and wonderful things.

I had a bit of a play with them later too, and found them to be quite nifty. I was quite impressed by the stencil sheet, but I found the pens to be slightly ineffective unless drawn over the lines a couple of times. A single pass would usually result in the line producing a very faded effect, as the solvent in the pen dissolved only part of the covering black or white layer. This was solved by recapping the pen and giving it a bit of a shake around.

Overall, not quite what I was expecting, but certainly very entertaining, both for my son during the drive, and me afterwards. I loved the diversity of kits, from those with the unmarked black and white pages, which are perfect for the young with an artistic leaning, to those that have designs already marked on them, requiring only that the child trace the lines, which are great for really young kids trying to improve their hand-eye co-ordination.