Crayola Glow Station can create with Light! | 
 enlarge | Brand: Crayola
Category: Toy
List Price: $39.66
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 129
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 3
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 15 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 3.1 x 13.9 x 16.8
MPN: 95-1000
Model: 95-1000
UPC: 071662210007
EAN: 0071662210007
ASIN: B0018Z7XO2
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)
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| Features:
| • | Glow Station is an empowering way for kids to create in a way they never could before. | | • | Glow in the dark poster sized canvas with built in hanging features. | | • | Canvas rolls up for easy storage. | | • | Has a light wand with a crystal tip attachment for magic coloring effects. | | • | Includes stencil sheets and light texture sheets with a dry erase BL marker for image save on plain transparency sheet. |
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Product Description
The Crayola Glow Station lets kids create cool, glowing masterpieces using a glow-in-the-dark, poster-sized canvas and one Light Wand with crystal-tip attachment for magical coloring effects. Supplies include 2 stencil sheets, 13 stencil "light-resist" shapes, 2 light texture sheets and one dry erase broadline marker.
Amazon.com Review
Perfect for dark winter afternoons or late-night campouts in the backyard, the Crayola Glow Station provides kids with unique, glow-in-the-dark fun. With a "light wand," a light-sensitive canvas, and cool stencils, the Glow Station lets kids ages 6 and up get creative using just light and their imaginations. 
Children can let their imaginations run wild on the blank canvas. View larger. | 
The jewel tip lets you make starburst patterns. View larger. |  | What We Think
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The Good: Fosters creativity in children with unique artistic tools
The Bad: Artwork isn't preservable
In a Nutshell: Using light to create images, the Crayola Glow Station gives kids an imaginative, fresh artistic outlet | At a Glance
Ages: 6 and up
Requires: Three AAA batteries (not included)
|  | | Creating Art with Light
The Glow Station is a flat, smooth surface made from glow-in-the-dark, light-sensitive material. It was easy enough for us to set up: the Glow Station is designed to hang from a nail or hook on the wall. Just make sure that it's in a room that can be completely darkened. Install three AAA batteries in the light wand, and hang the stencils and other accessories from the Glow Station's pegs to keep them in easy reach. We did have to manipulate the Glow Station a bit by rolling it -- you could also place it under a dictionary -- to make it stay flat, as it comes folded in the packaging. If you're traveling, or you don't have a convenient place to hang the Glow Station, it works just as well laid flat on a table or the floor; you just won't be able to store the accessories on it. The light wand is shaped like a large pen and has a small light bulb at the tip. Use the light wand to "draw" on the Glow Station canvas to create artwork that glows brightly from the light-activated canvas. The darker the room, the more brightly artwork glows against the canvas surface. We found that drawing "freehand" with the light wand renders pleasing, softer-edged images; for crisper, well-defined images, use the stencils to create shapes and scenes, such as animals safaris or solar systems. The stencils can be used with the "textured sheets," which are printed with opaque designs -- stripes, feathers, spots -- to give cool detail to the images. We had great fun, for example, peppering the canvas with a herd of spotted giraffes, all made with a stencil and textured sheet. The light wand also comes with a "crystal" attachment that causes the light to refract, creating rather beautiful starburst patterns when applied to the Glow Station canvas. Be Original!
For kids who want to make their own, original designs, the Glow Station comes with a plain, clear acetate sheet and a dry marker. Artists can draw their own pictures and designs on the sheet with the dry marker, then hold the sheet against the canvas and trace over it with the light wand. The acetate sheet is easy to clean with a dry cloth for easy re-use. Artwork lasts for about 5 minutes, during which it will gradually fade away completely -- leaving room for creating all over again. This also creates the unavoidable drawback of being unable to save the glow-in-the-dark masterpieces. But then again, it's comparable to other works of childhood artistry -- sandcastles and snowmen, for example -- which have perennial appeal despite their temporary quality. And watching the pictures fade away is actually part of the artistic process. What's in the Box
1 Glow Station, 1 light wand with crystal attachment, 1 acetate sheet, 1 dry erase marker, 2 sheets of stencil, 2 textured sheets
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 What a great gift for the artist in your child December 2, 2008
Bob Waskiewicz (Wintersville, Ohio United States)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
I saw the Crayola Glow Station at my Godchilds house last week and was amazed.This 5 year old girl was having the time of her life creating figures,and was nevered bored.
I would have LOVED this gift when I was young.
This is a wonderfull toy for a child to create the artist inside of them, without the mess of Crayons.
Hours of play! December 27, 2008
Becky R. Willard (Hanover, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although this product is recommended for 6 yrs old and older, I bought for my 3 year old. She loves playing with the light/glow mat (actually, we both do!). I hung the glow station in her bedroom and am certainly setting myself up to her not going to sleep when it is her bedtime... There is only 1 negative that I can say about the product. It comes with a black dry-erase marker that the instructions clearly state not to draw on the draw mat. The black marker is to be used for making your own stencils. However, it is too much of a temptation to even have the marker with the glow station and risk ruining the glow mat. I took the dry-erase marker away. My daughter won't even know it is missing.... Overall, this is a fun product for the young (i.e. 3 year old) and the nearly old (me) - worth hours of play time.
Daughter's new night light December 31, 2008
plyopowerd (Ellicott City MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 7-year-old got this for Christmas, and that night, I hung it on the wall opposite her bed. After I tucked her in and turned out the light, I wrote "Good Night!" in large script and dotted a bunch of stars around it. She loved it and now insists that I do it every night! So for starting a new bedtime "tradition" that makes her eager to get in bed and turn out the light, I give this toy 5 stars. I agree with the others who say that it's best you take the marker away (I use it on our dry erase memo board). Also, the board is folded up in the box and doesn't lay completely flat. It needs to be hung on a wall (otherwise the little stencils fall out) and needs total darkness to work.
What a bright idea!! December 24, 2008
Eileen Marie (Iowa, USA)
My kids love to draw and play in the dark, and with this they can do both at the same time, which is otherwise impossible. Good job, crayola!!
Very Cool! January 2, 2009
Brian Templeton (Western NY)
Absolutely brilliant. We hung it by the bed, and tell bedtime stories with it. Simple idea, executed well.
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