ALEX® Little Hands My Rub Art

This is the most disappointed I've been by a toy resulting in my first review.The kit comes with black and white sticker sheets, paper scenes to apply the stickers to, and plastic "films" with textured patterns for rubbing color onto the stickers.The finished product is very cute but it certainly wasn't made to be a "lasting" toy...and thus, seems like a waste of money.The textured plastic sheets have a knob at each corner that the sticker sheets fit into so that they stay put when rubbing.However, there are only 5 scenes to be made and the plastic sheets are very flimsy.Thinner than a gladware container more like plastic packaging material that toys come encased in.One of the crayons is a "rainbow" of colors very cool in theory but the consistency allows it to melt even with a light touch it is so messy it just melts onto little hands, furniture, clothes, and is so thick when rubbed onto paper that you can't see the texture. I was hoping for something that would be more lasting and durable, providing more open ended play.

Great concept...color on stickers and then put stickers on paper scene.This project gave my young kids (just turned 3) a great sense of accomplishment.

Only issues:cheap crayons (we just used our own) and the plastic texture sheets are very small (we had to tape the sticker sheet to the texture sheet).

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My 5-year old son enjoyed making these pictures.He is not very good at coloring in the lines.This product worked well for him because you color the stickers first and then place them onto the pictures.He liked using the different textured plates.The rainbow crayon is rather messy but otherwise we liked this craft.

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This was a gift for my 3 year old, but it has been used more by her 5 1/2 yr old sister.It is well beyond my 3 yr olds ability, even with adult help.As others have said, the rainbow crayon melts too easily for it to even be used.The other crayons dont work particularly well either, but we have plenty of crayons.

My biggest disappointment is the stickers.They are very thin (which may be nccessary for the pattern portion) and tear easily when they are being removed, at least when the kids do it.The worst part is, once stuck on the scene they can't be repositioned.If they are peeled off and reapplied they constantly curl off the paper.There are 2 sheets of stickers for each little scene, and to fit them all -or even mostis likely to require rearrangement, but don't move them around or they won't stick anymore!

I admit I love projects the kids can do fairly independently, or at least I don't have to feel like I'm constantly correcting them (or taking over), and this is not one of them.

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I bought this for my three year old daughter who is into making "crafts." It's a fun activity for us to do together, but it won't last long because there aren't a ton of scenes to decorate. It's a great combination of coloring and stickers, which my daughter loves. I do plan on keeping the rubbing plates even after she's used up all of the stickers for the scenes. I'll just add them in with her other art stuff and she can use them to make designs on plain sheets of paper. The rubbing plates are not super thick, but I think they are pretty comparable to others I have seen. The biggest problem I have with this is the rainbow crayon, which is a joke. It is a really weird consistency and melted/smeared all over our hands when we tried to use it and smeared and made a mess if you touch the sticker that you colored with it....super messy. We just won't' use it.

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