fun with a bit of color
594002
Hue are my favorite brand of socks.  Many of the Hue have a higher amount of cotton than other brands.
4921610
I've had fun with these gel sticks and like the way they mix with other materials.  Adding them overtop to give highlight and brighten an image or a swath of color over a layout, they're a nice size and easy to handle.  The metallic isn't overly noticeable, rather subtle.  Nice colors, ones that blend well and complement.
459077
Overall a fun game. Some items are drawn so small that you kind of have to guess a little bit that it is what you're looking for.
4740250
Fun and whimsical designs.  I just got a set of 72 Prismacolor Premier pencils and wanted to try as many different colors in a design as I could. So I picked a page from this book that had both flowers and a patchwork background design.  I like this book when I want to color outside of normal color schemes.  I like the fanciful birds, bugs, and critters that are in some of the pictures.  Overall the images are quite cheerful.

It is best for pencil.  Markers and gel pens can bleed through to the next design since the paper is somewhat thin and the pages are double sided images, so i deducted 1 star.  I have scanned the images onto card stock and it is heavy enough for markers and gel pens. The first two attached images were done with the Prismacolor pencils the third was done with markers and the last with glitter and metallic gel pens all on the original paper.

I think both adults and kids old enough to color in the smaller size designs would enjoy this book.
3449314
This has been a fun toy for our 15-month daughter. She's just starting to get the hang of unscrewing the nuts and bolts... not really there yet. But she's developing a sense of color coordination. She'll put the same colored nuts and bolts together... and undo the ones that are differently colored. It's been cool to hear from her daycare teacher that she's really good at matching colors!
754930
This toy is plenty entertaining for a short while.  It is great fun to make the art, and the paint colors are bright and contemporary (neon green, yellow, coral, blue, and purple).  The spinner is seemingly durable, powered by one C-cell battery (which is not included).

But, consider --

The bottles of ink are teeny-weeny -- .6 fl oz each -- about the size of a small hotel shampoo bottle.  The jars of glitter are even tinier.  Although the kit contains glitter, there is no glue to apply it.  The glitter seems like a bit of an afterthought.  And for some reason, even though there are five colors of paint, spinner device contains only three holes to hold the paint.

The cards to paint on are tiny as well -- there are ten cards that are about 4"x 4" each, and another ten cards that are about 3" x 3".  Half are black and half are white.  You may be able to make  "beautiful art" (says so right on the box) but at 3" x 3", it's hard to make much of a statement.

The kit contains a clear plastic "splash guard" That is labeled in tiny font as such, along with a "do not discard" warning.  If you happened to overlook the label, you would likely discard the splash guard, as it is indistinguishable from much packaging.

I have a similar spin-art painter from Crayola, the color spinner -- hard to say which one of these two items would be preferable.  This Alex spinner is battery-operated, the Crayola one is not.  This Alex spinner definitely has cooler paint colors.  The Crayola spinner has circular pieces of cardboard to paint on.  They are much larger and the shape is more interesting.  Either kit would be fun for kids.  Once or twice.

This would be a fun toy to play with once or twice, but I wouldn't expect it to be something you will return to again and again.  And if you purchase it, don't forget to get a C-cell battery.
1289240
I bought these for a party game and the kids (5-7 years old) loved them. I was expecting more colors, but was prepared to get something different than the product photo. This mix was mostly pink and clear, with some blues.
2547751
This is nice for a rainy day project or if your child is bored.  It is creative and gives them something to actually do instead of just play.  The colors are bright.  My granddaughter is 3 and loved it and had fun putting it together with her mom.
3968133
Fun and not nearly as form fitting or see through as the picture would have you believe even if you aren't as cut as the model.
3465939
Pretty fun project for my five year old.  Any child that can hold a pencil properly can do this, it just requires fine motor skills with a pencil-like tool.

The way it works is there are printed pictures with sticky blanks.  You use the tool to pry up the paper cover on the sticky blanks, then you apply the colored foil leaf, which adheres to the sticky spot and fills it in.  There are only 4 picture cards provided so it's only a few hours of activity, but it was a nice change of pace from coloring books or stickers.
4938557
fun rainy day or too hot/cold to go out for long kinda project.  paints are ok but very basic colors...have to mix to make green.  easy to attach magnets.  brushes are also basic at best.  still fun to do and would recommend.
4570682
This coloring book has the right amount of detail in the pictures to make it fun for adults but also could be colored by children who have acquired good coloring skills. The pictures are fun to look at and color in. Being mythical beasts the colors that can be used are only limited by your imagination. The pictures are printed crisply and easy to see transitions such as when two characters are overlapping one another. This book has been enjoyable to play with.
1637214
There is a lot of fun in these LED bulbs.

What I like:  The light effect is really cute in a semi-dark room, particularly if you have two lamps slightly overlapping eachother.  Because of the price I've ordered extras as gifts and they are very well liked.

What I don't like:  The down side is that they are bigger than a standard light bulb so they work in some of my lamps and not in others.  The other problem is that they're somewhat fragile.  The mechanics that produce the spin are easy to damage.  So once it's dropped, manually counter-rotated, or "closely inspected" by a curious 10-year-old, they still light up but the rotation stutters or stops completely.

However I would still recommend this because of the inexpensive fun factor it produces.  Just be sure to handle it carefully, keep your kids from messing with it, and put it back in the box when you're done with it- or buy extras and keep a spare.
730098
This is a fun a different kind of craft coloring device, and it's fun and neat to use.  But it is also a bit more confusing to use than is necessary.  And that's really the gist of this product.

First let me address concerns others reviewers have raised about noise.  This might be a unit specific issue as ours while not whisper quiet is also not so loud as to be unbearable as some other have said.

How it works.  A light bar covered in LEDs spins in a circluar motion along the inside edge of the unit.  That spinning is what is creating the (in some cases loud) noise and what generates the light patterns.  Much like those dollar store toys that feature the spinning LEDs on a wand-like toy.  A sensor in the ight pen then marks when a certain color will flash.  Pretty cool tech in my humble opinion.  The downside is that the resolution of the designs are fairly low, though still offereing a lot of potential.

Therefore creating 360 degree LED-lit designs is fun and a lot of creativity can be had but erasing them or finding the built in games or switching colors or pen/ink thickness just isn't as straightforward at it should be.  This is possibly due to the limitations of the screen resolution or display format but there is quite a steep learning curve that the intructions only marginally address.

In summary, the child that has the patience to invest the time learning how to use the machine and has the creative spark that could be fueled by this device is the perfect candidate to use this machine.  For those that just want to fire it up and get coloring in light, this might not be the best fit.
3720572
I am pleased with the coloring book images and the grandkids think they are fun and different.  I should have read the description more carefully because I was surprised at how small these are and how few pages they have.  It was an inexpensive purchase that entertained the kids.
43784
Very nice.  Colors not quite as intense as I thought they'd be but this is overall a good product and I'm having fun with them. The remote is a cute touch.
92497
Good fun for kids, but you need to trim the corners. I bought these for a glow in the dark Bday party and it was a big hit with the kids!