Dan&Darci Paint Spin Art Machine Kit for Kids - Arts & Crafts for Boys & Girls Ages - Art Craft Set Gifts for 6-9 Year Old Boy, Girl - Painting Spinner Toys - Birthday Gift Ideas for Ages 6-12 Years

I purchased this, for my great nephew, for his sixth birthday. My niece told me that he had such a great time using it! It needs to be supervised, by a parent, and even my niece said she had fun using it with her son. This is a really cool present!

Love this so much! It's just like the one I did in my childhood so long ago. My granddaughters, 2 and 5, absolutely loved it. Very easy to clean. The update is the white crayon, which adds an interesting dimension to the painting. It's a classic toy.

Kids love it. Easy to use. I have to be careful where you drop the paint. Too close to the edge and the paint flies out

Kids love it and easy to use. A great creative project for rainy days. Clean up was easy and quick.

The media could not be loaded. My kids loved this. I had a strong feeling they would do I bought extra paper and paint for when they run out of what was supplied. They had so much fun. I had so much fun. It is a bit messy, but good art is messy is it not? I would put something down in the work area. Some people complained about not being able to get the paint off of surfaces but it came off of everything it touched with ease. I had my 2 year old and 5 year old enthralled with this for a while. It’s a fun family activity. I wouldn’t let them use it alone but I enjoyed watching their little creative minds work! Also just a note… I would take the batteries out after each use.

This was a good item. Not messy. It is as much fun as it is well described. A very good item to use when your stuck inside due to bad weather

We just got this yesterday and my daughter has had so much fun using this since then!That said, do I recommend this product?: Maybe. Read below for a more in-depth review.This product is fun and includes great colors - I love the metallic colors they include, even if those 3 are small bottles.The major drawbacks of the product mainly center around cleanup. There is no way my daughter can clean this up by herself, so a lot of the autonomy of this is gone.One of the reasons its difficult to clean up is the battery compartment within the unit. I bought this unit because I didn't want to have to spin it manually, but now I see the drawbacks to a powered unit. Embedded battery compartment + water = bad news for cleaning. It might have been a smarter design if the motorized part of the unit were a removable, rotating, notched 'pin' that sticks in and attaches underneath the unit and spins during use, but can be removed for cleaning.I also don't yet understand the purpose for all of the negative shapes in the yellow piece that holds the papers, but it just makes it tougher to clean than a solid piece would have been. One or two holes to put your fingers in to pull the piece out would have been sufficient.The rounded bumps that the clear plastic cover fits over also trap paint like crazy and are so annoying to clean. I feel like the space between them was unnecessary and is just a pain to clean.The embedded paint bottle holder section is cute and somewhat handy...if you only ever plan to use the manufacturers paint. Unfortunately, they trap paint during normal use and during cleaning and they are difficult to clean. A simple, seperate, lidded container would probably have been better for paint storage and holding.Also, the paints were inconsistent. Some worked great, but some of the paints didn't work as expected and would hit the paper and immediately go flying in a giant gloop off to the side, onto the cover, barely getting any color at all onto the page. (We noticed this with the yellow and blue, in particular, and somewhat with the gold.) I don't know yet if some of the paints were too viscous or the machine spins too fast, or both.Tip 1:When squeezing paint, hold it away from you, tilted backward, but have the tip end pointed at the page but a bit *toward* you. It seems counterintuitive, but it was the only way the gloopy paints worked.Tip 2:Let the unit get up to full speed (takes about 2 seconds) and then turn it off and try to squeeze the paint onto it as it is slowing a bit. The slightly slower speeds worked good for us and created some more interesting designs.Elaboration on whether I would recommend this product or not:I am undecided. Now that I know the pitfalls, I would first see if there are other powered units that are easier to clean for children to be more independent with. I do like this powered version over the manually-powered Tyco Swirl Art from my childhood, though.

The grandkids are very happy, and increasingly creative!