It’s no secret that I adore Crayola products – so when I was offered the chance to try out – and host a giveaway for – the new Crayola Digital Light Designer and Crayola Marker Airbrush, it was easy to say yes!
My son adored the rocket ship shape of the Crayola Marker Airbrush, so it’s no surprise that he chose to use the rocket ship stencil for our trial paper run as well as the design for his shirt.
The process is incredibly simple: insert one of of Crayola’s Classic Washable Broadline Markers, Washable Broadline Window Markers, or new Bright Fabric Broadline Markers, pump, and spray – this is a battery-free toy! The Marker Airbrush comes with a nice range of stencils – from Johnny’s rocket ship to Emma’s butterfly:
I love how easy it is to use several different colors for the same design. The ease of use combined with the beauty of the finished product make this a great way for kids to personalize gifts for others! Crayola recommends using light colored shirts, but the design shows up pretty well on Johnny’s army green shirt!
We loved the Crayola Marker Airbrush so much, we made a little video so that you could see it in action:
The kids have not had as much time to play with the Crayola Digital Light Designer – we saved it for Johnny’s birthday, so they’ve only had it since Saturday. They haven’t yet discovered the games, but they all enjoy doodling with Rainbow Draw and Mirror Draw, and three-year-old Lily (who tends to gravitate the most towards technology) has figured out how to do some of the animation effects.
The Digital Light Designer is really a brilliant design – the center of it spins around, and has sensors on one side of the spinner and LED lights on the other. It reminded all of us of the Sponaneous Fantasia show we saw at the Boston Museum of Science. Here is a brief video clip of it in action – my apologies for the shakiness, four-month-olds make for interesting assistant videographers…
Have you ever used an airbrush? If so, what for?
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I like the dry erase activity center.
We would like a marker tower.
The Glow Board looks like something my son would really enjoy!
The airbrush looks like so much fun, and since it’s a Crayola product, I know it will be top quality.
I would love for the kids to try any of the ColorWonder products. The light designer is very cool too.
I’d like to try the Glow Book.
My girls would love the digital light designer. Awesome shirts BTW! I love that Crayola is making all these new cool toys! Keep up the good work!
He would love the telescoping crayon tower.
My son would love the color studio hd
DD 2.75yrs is excited by the ads for the Crayola light up palette
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Color Explosion Glow Dome
My daughter would love the fun effects!
My daughter would love the jewelry maker!
Ultimate Art Supplies
I love using stencils and painting shirts, but I’ve never used an airbrush before!
This was my first time – SO much fun!
Crayon maker
My daughter would love the light designer. I was actually looking at one for her for Christmas but wasn’t sure if she was old enough, so glad to hear about your 3-year-old.
My three-year-old definitely likes it, and it seems pretty intuitive for her.
My kids would love anything but I think that the digtal light design looks awesome.
The airbrush projects look amazing!!! Well done. :)
Thanks! They are both wearing their airbrushed shirts to school today :)
The crayon tower would be great for organizing!
The airbrush is definetely something we would like to try out.
My daughter wants to design clothes and this would be a great addition to her growing experience.
I love the airbrush, it would be perfect for the teachers at my little ones preschool.
I have always liked the classic crayola products and am happy to see all the new products. Crayola is keeping the classics and offering more modern toys and supplies. I’d like to try the Crayola Digital Light Designer.
My daughter would love that butterfly you did – beautiful! And looks like tons of fun too!
It was really fun! I loved the way they could mix colors within a single design.
MY 8 year old would love the crayon maker.
I’ve been eying that one for a while – it does look neat!
Oh, I love them all. I love your t-shirts and would love to try the airbrush. From the Gift Guide I would pick the Glow Board.
I like the Crayola Color Wonder Light-Up Paint Palette
We love Crayola too! The air-brush is such a cool idea – looks like it works like a garden sprayer! I am also fascinated by the digital designer – I would want to try it out!
I have always loved Crayola products, and would love to win the giveaway for one of my grandkids.
Give Anna a kiss for me. All the others would probably go meh!
xo Linda
Good luck!
I just can’t go past the airbrush. It’s so different to all the other mediums we use. Would love it! (Love crayola too :) )
We really enjoyed playing with the airbrush!
I have been oogling the Crayola Marker Airbrush. My kids would love that and it’s a tad pricey so I’d love to win!
Good luck! It’s a lot of fun!
This is so cute and they look like the are having fun!
How awesome, we’ve seen this advertised. It looks like they are having fun!
My mom had just shown me the Digital Light Designer recently and asked me about getting it for my kiddoes. It looks really cool!
It is very cool – and versatile, once you get the hang of it. My kids are really enjoying it, and it is a zero-mess artistic toy.
This is on our Xmas list for our 5 yo!
We would love the airbrush kit–my boys both love anything art-related, but we’ve never air brushed!
Would be really neat for my 3 year old to make onesies for her new brother coming in May!
This would be perfect for that!
gutted, we’re in the UK. I love Crayola stuff, i even had one of the airbrush kits for myself.
Sorry, Monko :(
That airbrush looks so cool!
The dry erase activity center looks like great fun!
The airbrush set would be great for my budding artists!
I love the way your shirts turned out! These look like tons of fun.
Looks really neat
ooh the airbrush is so cool! we’ve been talking about the ads for the digital light designer, trying to figure out how it works!
I still don’t really understand how the sensor part works. It’s very cool – both toys are.
I love crayola, too. We’ve used lots of products. My favorite is the online story creator with the comic book character option. Bobo loves Spidey!
Ooh, we don’t have that, but my son would LOVE it!
My kids would love anything from Crayola. I personally Would like them to have the crayon tower or to try out the color wonder products.
I’m interested in the Color Wonder Cars 2 Activity Set, because JC loves anything Cars themed =)
Good luck! Sending something Cars-themed off to him tomorrow morning :)
My daughter would love the Disney Princess glitter paper set! Love how your projects turned out!
We’ve gotten Story Studio before and made several stories. The kids loved that. It’s not on there but we love the crayon and marker towers, my kids call them “cake markers,” and we use them almost daily.
Our marker tower actually stays up now! I think we need to get a crayon one, because my current crayon solutions do not work very well.
This is all so high tech for sure, the only crayola products we have are good old fashioned crayons. I am sure my kids would enjoy this product, love the video.
My daughter would also enjoy the Crayola Light Up Paint Pallette.