Colour Buddy - Imagination Pictures

Colour Buddy - Imagination Pictures

Do you remember 'Wheres Wally?' the picture books with 'Wally' hidden in the picture somewhere?

Well now we have Colour Buddy ... different products that you can colour in with a list of objects to find within the picture .. you have to use your imagination as they are not always obvious!!

I have reviewed 2 poster style products:

Colour Buddy®™: The Imagination Poster game - Poster Size A1.
There are 58 pictures to find in this Colour Buddy®™ game. All these pictures can be found printed around the edge of the poster.

Colour Buddy®™: Imagination Geometric poster game - Poster Size A1.
There are 30 pictures to find in this Colour Buddy®™ game.


Could I find all the objects? Well urm ... I found a couple, then discovered that if I coloured them in as I found them it makes the discovery process a bit less tricky.
These posters are amazing, the detail that has been put into them is astounding. I was really impressed with that if you stand a few feet back from the images you can see yet more shapes and patterns forming ... they really do test your imagination.

I am planning on taking my posters into work (I work in a Higher Education College) for our staff room, you see the Colour Buddy products are not just for kids - they are for all ages.
I will warn you though, they can get obsessive! then you go bog-eyed and fall over, but its worth it.

New products will be available soon http://www.colourbuddy.co.uk/newproducts.html including a jigsaw piece game and also cards to send to friends or relatives.

On the Colour Buddy website you can 'try before you buy' with a FREE Download of a Colour Buddy poster http://www.colourbuddy.co.uk/download.html which is great, print off a couple of copies and see who can find the most objects first.

http://www.colourbuddy.co.uk/index.html Colour Buddy's come in a range of styles to suit all tastes. Please see the website for more information and prices.

Crayola Colour Wonder

Crayola Colour Wonder

Colour Wonder is a magical way of colouring in as the special markers only show up on the special Colour Wonder paper. Colour in your favourite Disney Fairies characters with Colour Wonder, where the colour only appears within the lines!

Do you remember the old 'Magic Painting' books? The pictures were already printed for you and all you had to do was 'paint' over them with water and the colour magically appeared ... well COlour Wonder from Crayola is bacially a 'new fangled' version of them.
Don't get me wrong, its clever and very effective. The colours are bright and most importantly there is no mess! I would recommend this activity as a good time passer for car, train or aeroplane journeys as they are safe to use and create no mess at all. >br>You do however have to use the pen provided, if you lose this you are stuck .. but we are yet to lose ours as they are quite chunky.

We have the Tinkerbell version but Crayola do market other characters and also plain blank sheets just for drawing on. Emma liked the Tinkerbell but (at 8) she said that they got boring after a while and that she would prefer the plain paper to design her own pictures.
The pack states age 3+ but I would also recommend this for younger children if supervised at all times, great for hand/eye co-ordination and fine motor skills.

Fun, clean and easy to travel with - a recommended craft set from Crayola.
Ryman rrp: £5.49 http://www.ryman.co.uk/Colour-Wonder-1454322031.asp

Our rating: 8/10