Make It Real Stamp to Reveal DIY Dot Posters, 1 Stamper per kit & 3 Dot Posters |Craft Kit, Artwork Activity, Girls & Kids Ages 6 Bunny, Frog, Panda

My 7 and 9 year olds love this, as do I! Fun, easy, low maintenance project to work on anytime. Make sure you read the quick and easy instructions and be careful not to spill the little canisters with all of the tiny paper circles in it, which is what we did several times. But if we were all working on one at the same time, it was actually easier to just lay out the circles and match them up by hand rather than one number at a time with the little stamper thing. Regardless, we're enjoying it! Great buy for children who enjoy projects. We love puzzles, and this has a similar feel. Wouldn't recommend for children younger than 6 or 7.

This is a unique item. The poster board itself is sticky. You apply paper dots using a plastic round handheld applicator. You put the paper dots into the applicator manually in a roll. Pay attention and use the correct paper dots for each poster! Each paper dot has a number on the back. You hunt around on the poster to find the corresponding number, and then press the applicator down to affix the paper dot onto the correct number circle. The numbers are not in order so you will hunt around a lot. One poster took two adults & an eight year old about 2.5 hours. Young kids will definitely need assistance. The paper dots are tricky to affix in just the right position, if you don't apply them just right you'll see white peeking out, if you're child is a perfectionist this may bother them. The design, when completed, is really cool and something for a kid to be proud of.

Hours of fun

I’m not sure I’ve been more frustrated with a craft I purchased for my kids. If you look at the little cartridges with the paper dots wrong, move them wrong, or drop them slightly, you will have 100s of tiny paper circles all over the place and frustrated, possibly crying kids. My 9 yo accidentally dropped the cartridges for her sister’ Christmas gift on Christmas Day and those little circles fell out EVERYWHERE! She was just trying to help my 6 yo get the first poster set up. Cue the Christmas day tears because she felt like she ruined her sister’s gift. I should have just returned it at this point. I ended up contacting the company and after their break after the new year, they sent replacement cartridges. I tried to ensure they were safely stored. My daughters decided to try again with the frog design and I helped this time. We made it through the first cartridge fine. Then, as I was trying to load in the second one, I tipped it somehow and we had a new puddle of tiny papers. We were all too invested and ended up just pulling the dots off of my hand to finish the picture. It turned out cute, but I’m hoping I can sneak the other 2 posters in the trash before they decide to attempt more since I just looked in the baggie I had everything store in and at least 2 cartridges have emptied again. Seriously, don’t even try this one, especially for younger kids, unless they fix the way the stamper is loaded. The stamper is most of the fun and is super satisfying when it works.

This is so much fun and easy for kids to understand, but the design could definitely be improved. My 6 year old accidentally dropped all of the dots out and it was a huge pain to get them all facing the right way and back into the stamper tool. At first I was really worried because I thought they would need to be in number order, but fortunately the order doesn’t matter and you can just put them in randomly. I thought maybe that only was a my kid problem, but we gave it as a gift at the same time my kid got it, and when we were at their house, the same thing happened to them! We know now to be careful and its been fine.