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aBaby Mega Creative Art Station
Encouraging artistic chops while keeping walls free from expressive crayoning is a delicate balance. This art and crafts station helps focus the colorful chaos with loads of supply storage bins, a paper roll holder to provide an endless canvas (with no lines to color in), and room for two stools so you can show them where their inner Rembrandt comes from. The result is wall-worthy art, rather than wall-as-art-station.
Crayola Color Alive Easy Animation Studio
Frozen obsession to the next level and build their own flamethrowing mutant Olaf. There’s a booklet of characters and backgrounds to start with, but the app also works with real-world images so you can commandeer your kid’s toy and animate that hilarious thing they did last weekend. YouTube millions, here you come!
Green Kid Crafts
Promote your little artist’s skills for months on end with creativity kits from Green Kid Crafts, like a basil and sprout gardening kit, or that timeless classic: the baking soda volcano. Depending on your child’s age, each box of 4-6 kits is either an opportunity for quality time together or an effective way to absorb their attention for a few hours while you get some work done.
The Guerilla Art Kit
Dismaland would’ve cost you.
3Doodler 2.0
Turn those unrecognizable drawings on paper into unrecognizable 3D action figures! Once the initial filament is threaded, the nozzle design, drive system, and speed control enable kid-friendly, continuous drawing. Or sculpting. Or printing. Or whatever you call whatever this thing does in this brave new 3D printed world. Comes especially in handy this time of year — instead of throwing a fit, Junior can draw that made up toy they want right into existence.
Budsies
also an option.
OMY Giant Coloring Pages
Not to be confused with coloring books for grownups, this is one grown-ass coloring book. Technically, it’s just one page, but at nearly 6 feet long it offers a volume’s worth of scenery to color. If they ever manage to fill in the whole thing, your kid ends up with a unique piece of wallpaper … or tent. Markers not included, staying in the lines definitely not required.
Original Spirograph
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Your parents distracted you for hours with this thing; now you can do the same. “Stick the pen in the hole and swirl the ring around the spokes — you just made art!”
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