Technical Details
- Playback your picture
- Use with any Color Wonder Paper
- Add over 50+ sounds to each page!
- Endless Combinations
- Interactive drawing pad that brings creations to life with sounds!
Product Description
Interactive drawing pad that brings creations to life with sounds. Add over 50 sounds to each page. For use with any Color Wonder Paper.
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Customer Reviews
A new twist on color wonder
We've been Color Wonder fans for years and have seen products come and go. This sound studio is a neat twist, and I think we'll be keeping it for a long time. The package includes the sound studio drawing board, 12 color wonder pages with pictures, 6 blank color wonder pages, 5 mini markers and 6 sound cards. Each sound card has 10 different sounds with themes including city, jungle, dinosaur, music, farm, and beach; a nice, basic variety. There is also a storage place in the back for 5 markers (mini or regular sized).
3 AA batteries (not included) are required before beginning. Once the batteries are installed you place a drawing sheet of paper under the clips and slide a sound card into the top. Applying a sound to the board is easy, you just push and hold the sound you want until it plays, then place and hold your finger on the board where you want until you hear the sound again. You do have to press firmly, but the sound will stay until you remove it with the erase button. You can remove each sound individually or erase the whole board to start fresh. The different drawing sheets follow the same themes as the sound cards, so you can mix it up or use the card that applies to that themed sheet. It seems that other color wonder sheets will also fit from the spiral bound books or blank drawing pads which is nice. Expansion card packs in Toy Story and Princess themes are also available separately.
Overall we're pleased and I know this product will get lots of use. Pros include ease of use, encourages matching and using your imagination, works with other color wonder sheets and has two volume control levels (medium and loud). Cons include no storage for paper or sound cards. We'll probably end up using a small bag and using the clips on the front to keep things together. Also the paper is loose, so we're putting it under the clips also to hold in place, it would have been nice to have somewhere in the case to put the extra sheets. I think that this is a nice addition to the color wonder line and would be fun for the 3+ recommended to an early elementary school aged child.
Edit: Figured out what the sound cartridge slot on the side is for - when you purchase an expansion pack you have to insert the included cartridge into the sound studio in order to use the expansion pack sound cards. With the original set of sounds being included in the sound studio (no cartridge required), this isn't an issue. So if you want to use the Toy Story expansion pack, you have to insert the Toy Story cartridge into the sound studio every time you use the Toy Story sound cards and it doesn't appear that you can mix/match expansion packs.
Sounds don't add much play value
If you are familiar with Color Wonder, you will know that the advantage to these markers is that they do not mark anything but the Color Wonder paper. The disadvantage is that you need to keep buying Color Wonder paper.
What does Color Wonder Sound bring to the Color Wonder line? Well, it's a nice desk for the children to color on. It comes with five Color Wonder markers, 12 Color Wonder coloring pages, and six blank Color Wonder pages for freestyle drawings. Three AA batteries are required. They are not included.
Color Wonder colors take a little time to develop on the paper, which can be a little frustrating for youngsters who are used to regular markers. They may also tend to color outside the lines when they can't see where they are coloring. I notice the colors do show more quickly than they used to, which is an improvement.
There are six different sound cards with ten sounds per card. The child inserts a card into a slot on top of the desk. S/he picks a sound and then presses a spot on her picture to place the sound. There is a button to erase the sound, either from one position or the entire picture, if s/he makes an error. The sounds can be mixed and matched from among the cards. When the child is done, s/he can press different parts of the picture to play the sounds. If the sounds get too annoying for the adults, there is an option to choose between loud and soft. The sound does turn off after 10 minutes of inactivity to preserve battery life.
There's a spot on the back to hold the five markers but no place for the sound cards, and the papers are loose leaf. I store everything in the original box, but a self-contained unit would have been nice.
What do my nine and six year olds think? They both like coloring. My nine year old colors on it, but he says the sounds don't add much play value. My six year old has more fun placing the sounds; but when she's done, she doesn't play with the sounds.
PROS:
+ doesn't mark anything but Color Wonder paper
+ sounds from different sound cards can be mixed and matched on the picture
+ place to store markers
+ volume control (loud and soft)
+ sound turns off after 10 minutes of inactivity
CONS:
- must buy more Color Wonder paper
- no place to store sound cards
- lag time for colors to develop
- batteries not included
- kids don't play with sound very much
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