Creativity for Kids Craft Pack {Celebration Review & Giveway #9}

I’ve had the chance to work with Creativity for Kids on multiple occasions and the response has always been fantastic.  It seems that everyone is always jumping at the chance to have more fun craft and art projects with their kids and who can blame them? Anything that entertains and fosters creativity in my boys is a winner with me. I’ve previously reviewed their Make Your Own Animal Puppet Kit and kicked off my holiday splurge event with an awesome boys and girls prize pack giveaway.

This time I got the chance to test out the Young Artist Texture Painting Set from Faber-Castell which retails for $17.99.

Experience the joy of creative artistic expression. This 12 piece set has everything you need to experiment with color, texture, paint and patterns. Includes 5 colors of washable tempera paint, 5 texture tools, paint tray and 20 sheets of paper. And, a fully illustrated instruction guide that includes paint mixing chart, tips and techniques.

Just looking at the package, doesn’t it look like fun? While my boys are younger than the recommended age of 5 and up it didn’t stop them from having a blast with this set. I did however have to monitor them closely while they painted to avoid color mixing and to make sure that they didn’t paint anything they shouldn’t.

This paint set features many fun shaped texture brushes which go beyond the ordinary and allow your child to create something unique with little effort. I think this would be a great compliment to a regular paint set so you could mix the two together. The set includes everything you need to create and I found it very helpful to have paper already included. The brushes clean up easily with cold water and dry fairly quickly.  Adding a little water is recommended to stretch the amount of paint so it isn’t necessary to let the brushes dry before you can use them again.

My only suggestion would be to have multiple containers available so several colors are available at once. Only one paint tray is included and given the size of the brushes it would be hard to mix more than two at a time. With the ages of my boys I could only do one color in the tray to avoid cross mixing. With five brushes available it would have been handy to have five containers. This can easily be done with disposable containers or cups you may have lying around the house.

Creativity for Kids has a wide selection of products to bring out your child’s creative side and here are just a few of them.

• Big Fun Stamp Art (ages 3+) $19.99
• Keepsake Canvas (ages 5+) $14.99
• Racer Bikes (ages 5+) $18.99
• Butterfly Diary (ages 6+) $14.99

You can purchase these kits, including Faber-Castell products directly through Creativity for Kids. You can also find their products at your local Target or use their store locator to find a retailer near you.

How would you like to win all of these four products shown? Now that I’ve got you excited, check out how you can win below!

{ Giveaway }

Creativity for Kids would like to give one of my readers the collection of four craft products shown above including Big Fun Stamp Art, Keepsake Canvas, Racer Bikes and Butterfly Diary kits, a value of over $68!

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Disclosure: I received a sample for the purpose of this review . This has no bearing on my completely honest review above and was not influenced by any type of monetary compensation. The opinions and experiences I’ve shared with these products are my own and yours may differ.