Crayola Color Explosion Glow Board :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

This is SOOOOOO cool!

2008-01-12
I got this for my 5 year old daughter, who loves to draw. She absolutely adores it, and so does the rest of the family! She can turn on the lights and draw in the dark. I like the way you can draw 2 different pictures and have it alternate lighting them up.

Cool toy for little artists!

2008-01-12
We got this for our 4 year old son for Christmas! He loves it! There are 2 different plates that you draw on with the included markers. Other reviewers commented that it was difficult to erase. I didn't find that to be a problem. I just use a damp paper towel and it comes right off. I do want to note that the second drawing plate is difficult to draw on because I can't get the board to light up when you draw on it. It also stays on, most toys will turn themselves off after 5 minutes or so. Not the case here, so you need to keep track to see if it has been turned off. Other than that, I think it's a neat toy.

Neat toy for the artist in your family

2008-01-08
This is a neat little toy for the artist in your family. We bought 2 for Christmas and they have been enjoyed to say the least. They are a good price here on amazon. We got them when they were on sale. The children really enjoy being able to draw on them over and over. Only problem that I forsee is the little paper towels that are sitting all over the house from cleaning them off. Of course it is much better than the millions of papers that we had before!

Endless Fun!

2008-01-07
My daughter (9 years old) played with this Christmas present the entire day (suprisingly, even more than her new ipod)! It really is a great toy-prompting imaginative drawings and animation. The entire family had fun passing the board around and creating animated scenes, that switch back and forth due to the back-lit board. We travel a lot, and this toy also allows her to draw in the car at night. My one suggestion to Crayola would be to include an eraser that clears the marker off the board. Currently we keep a pack of wet wipes and tissues handy.

Surprisingly fun

2008-01-07
I was surprised at how much fun this toy is. It will give hours of fun on our next road trip. It is very durable. We us wet wipes to clean off the board surface and a dry wash cloth to dry it off. I would give this toy a 10 rating.

Kids had fun with this for a couple of days

2008-06-30
Well built and really neat to play with. The kids just lost interest after a couple of days playing with it.

Wife and I had printed out pictures off the Internet (Dora, Deigo, Blues Clues) and slipped the paper in for them.

Nice 3Dish look.

NOT as great as i thought

2008-06-19
I figured my 6 yr old would love this and she did for 2mo or so. I couldnt find any markers that go with it around here so once she wore the markers out the board became Useless. Within 3 mo of purchasing it was up in the closet not being used....

Fun for a 5 Year Old

2008-02-27
Crayola Color Explosion Glow Board

I got the Crayola Glow Board for my five year old son and he loved it! For him the fun came from the unique effects he could make on the two panel drawing surface and then turn of the lights to see how they glow.

At first he was just drawing lines and shapes just to see the glowing effect when he turned out the lights. Then we found on Crayola.com that there were a bunch of print outs he could use to trace. They even have a program that lets him make his own two frame drawing on Crayola.com then print them out to trace on the Glow Board.

The best part for us was how much it keep him entered on a long road trip we recently did. Once it started to get e bit dark outside he was able to draw in the dark. He even made a sign that read "Are we there yet"!

Alot of fun.

2008-01-14
This toy is alot of fun, but when you set it up to switch between the two screens automatically, it goes a good speed, then faster, then so fast that you cant even read it, then back slow, then back fast and so on.

Crayola Color Explosion Glow Board

2008-01-12
Super Fun! Daughter plays hours with this toy. Wipe off screen and draw again over and over ...light it up for neat looking pictures! Very Satisfied with this toy!

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