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Product Name: Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio
Rating: 8
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Reviewer: Guest Review

Description:  Designed for children ages 4 to 9, this arts and craft studio plugs right into your home computer and gives your children hours and hours of fun art and craft activities to do all on their own. 

Review: Being a mom of 3 very lively children, I wanted to find something they could do that would occupy their time but would also help them learn to use their creativity.  Knowing Fisher Price, I felt I could find just that with them.  I found this great studio and it keeps the kids occupied for hours.

This wonderful invention plugs right into my home computer.  It has 85 different projects that my children can tackle with very little struggle.  It’s easy to understand for all of them and they have fun making and creating all different types of arts and crafts.

Included in this studio is the base that the kids can see their creations come to life on.  It also includes CD software and a USB cable making it easy to set up and use.  The software includes over 250 different colors, 300 stampers and over 70 scene starters.  There is no end to what the kids can make and do.

The stylus is capable of being used as a pencil, a stamper and even more.  With things such as connect the dots, party hats and greeting cards, my children can make things that amaze them and all our family and friends.  It’s so easy for them to use, which makes it fun. 

There are things such as coloring pages, flying airplanes and leaping frogs they can play, color and create.  The software that comes with this studio is just filled full of all types of different activities.  You can also purchase other software that can take their creations to new levels.  Their imagination can run wild.

They also can save and print their creations with no problems.  Best of all you have parental controls so nothing on your computer can be jeopardized by those inquisitive little minds and fingers.  They have total control of their own table and pencil while you have control of the PC.

Children need to be able to let their imaginations go and to use that imagination to create their own ideas.  This studio allows them to do that.  I no longer hear “I’m bored.” or “Why can’t we watch TV or play video games?”  For hours and hours of fun, try this arts and craft studio.  Your children will be glad you did. 

Earlier this month I was a chaperone for my daughter’s field trip to see a play. All four kindergarten classes attended but because the theater is small they only allowed three chaperones per class. So we each got to watch six kids.

Overall, the kids from our school were very well-behaved but I had two kids who just wanted to do things their own way. They were pushing to get up the stairs, despite hundreds of other kids being in their way. One little girl is just so headstrong that she does not listen, so she was a challenge.

The play was very cute. This theater group was from Canada and they had puppets and performed three of Eric Carle’s best tales, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The kids all enjoyed the show and were encouraged to cheer and have fun. This was not a sit-quietly-in-your-seat show!

By the time we got back to the school and off that yellow school bus, I told my daughter’s teacher that she deserved combat pay! My head was twisted every which way watching my group and being sure they didn’t wander and making sure they didn’t stick their fingers in the holes in the bus seats, and I was never so grateful to get into my nice QUIET car to head home!

So, if you ever hear somebody complaining about how “easy” teachers have it, tell them to spend time in a classroom with 25 different personalities who all learn at different speeds and have different needs. It’s no piece of cake!