I have never been a fan of crayons. Ever since I was young, I try my best to steer clear of using crayons whenever possible. I can't stand the icky waxy feelings of the crayons on the paper, more so the icky greasy remains of the crayons which is messy to wash off.
When I received a request to review the Amos Colorix Crayons, I think hard. I read over and over again the product details and finally decided to go ahead since I vowed to do more reviews on products which could help and benefit in our learning objectives. I told myself just because I feel icky with crayons, I should not deprive our kiddos on the experience of using them. So here it goes, our review after trying out the product:
About the product:
"Amos is from Korea. Amos Crayons have a wonderful smooth gliding touch and incredible vivid color! It is shaped thin and sharp for a better comfort grip and detailed description. Silky crayons come in twist-up tubes and are as easy to use as a crayon but go on like an oil pastel. Silky Crayons are watersoluble and with a q-tip or a paint brush you can create nice watercolor effects. Watersoluble also means these crayons stains will wash off easily with water. Non-toxic and odor free these are the next generation of crayons! Silky crayons are blendable and you'll be amazed at how beautiful the colors are. It also could be a smooth marking crayon for wide range of users in office and school."
About the sponsor:
"We're a friendly online store which mainly providing educational toys, cloth books, family tee and other mother baby items. Owning a cute and active toddler of our own, we understand what a parent would need. We love to bring convenience for all busy parents to just browse online, place order and all items would be delivered to you by door step. niceVin, your family store."
My feedback on the product's packaging: As a stay-at-home mum who is most of the time stuck at home with 3 kiddos, I truly appreciate children products with clear and organised containers. So the moment I see the Amos Colorix Crayons nicely arranged in a transparent briefcase-like packaging, I feel happy of course. No stress of the crayons being chuck everywhere.
There is a clear label at the back of the packaging indicating the features of the product and storage and handling instructions as well. To open up the Amos Colorix Crayons packaging, you just need to flip open the 2 small tabs on one of the sides like how you do for briefcases. The crayons are securely placed and arranged according to the color tones.
My feedback on the product: The crayon's length is just nice and its size is also just right for childrens' fingers to grasp on to. I am not a big fan of letting our kiddos (especially below 3 years old) use the common small size color pencils or pens as they still need time to perfect their finger grasping skills. You just need to gently turn the bottom cap anti-clockwise to extend the crayons and continue using it. I totally love that the crayons are covered in plastic holders so you have less exposure to the crayons - not that these crayons are icky at all.
I took two of the crayons' to compare. The crayons does not feel icky at all! And I am totally mesmerised with the colors and the ones in gold and silver color tones are just gorgeous!
One of the things that annoys me when using the Amos Colorix Crayons are our kiddos' being rough when coloring - I guess it could be their excitement of using crayons for the first time. You can see the tip is blunt and chapped as well. Maybe it's just the OCD in me - can't stand it! In fact, I felt a tad sympathy seeing that poor crayong losing it's perfect cone-shaped tip.
Picture below on the right side is just to show you how the crayon works when you turned the bottom cap clockwise or anti-clockwise to extend or shortened the crayons.
My feedback on kiddos using the product: The moment I opened the packaging, our 2 years old girl is already hogging the packaging and our 4.5 years old boy was excitedly looking for blank papers to color on. Our girl then proceeded to take out her favorite color which is pink and then handed me the purple one (clever girl knows mummy's favorite color!) while our boy immediately got down to asking me what I wanted him to draw.
Our girl happily doodles away while our boy concentrated on drawing the things I asked him to. The three little piggies' brick house with a chimney, snowman, robot, Doraemon and even Ironman!
At one point, some of the crayons got smeared on our girl's onesies and I told myself, gotta wash it off later and after our kiddos were done with the crayons activities, I let them play in their water pool at the balcony and when they were done, I noticed the crayon stains are gone! Then I remembered that this crayons can easily be removed with water! Ahhhhh... nice, nice! And I also noticed there are no icky waxy smells with the crayons at all!
Summary: The Amos Colorix Crayons is a wonderful product for children, it has certainly helped me regain back my faith in using crayons and I'm happy to be given the opportunity to try out this product. I'm glad our kiddos enjoyed using the crayons. Pictures below are some of the colorings and drawings by our 4.5 years old Benjamin ;)
You can get this crayons from niceVIN Facebook page.
I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the product by niceVIN in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. 