Good morning everyone! I have a really fun giveaway for you today, and just in time for the holidays! I’ll be giving away a set of the fun new Kwik Stix paint pens by The Pencil Grip!
I’m sure you’ve seen these popping up all over the internet, I know I have! And my kids were so excited when I said that they were sending some for us to review. At first I thought they’d just be like regular crayons or maybe even markers, but they aren’t.
They’re actually paint in a stick. So they glide on really smoothly, and can be blended somewhat as well. They go on wet, but dry within about 90 seconds which is nice. And one that that I definitely appreciate is that they come out in an even amount. So you don’t have any large globs of paint like when working with paint and brushes.
We found that they work best with thicker, painting paper as opposed to regular copy paper. Since they are wet, they do act just like paint and can soak through thinner paper.
Hopefully you can see in this closeup that they dry with a rather interesting texture to them as well. They kind of remind me of a dryer acrylic painting or something like that.
The edges of our paper rolled up a little bit, but I just smoothed them out on a table edge, and they stayed great. The paint is a nice even coat, so there wasn’t any cracking or any flaking.
Want more information? Check out this demo video from Kwik Stix!
Kwik Stix was kind enough to send each of my kids their own set as well, which was nice. Now I don’t have any fighting over them, and everyone can make their own projects!
Want to win a set for your family?
The Pencil Grip is hosting a giveaway for a 6 pack of their Kwik Stix to one of you! Just enter below!
Disclaimer: I received these products in exchange for review on my blog. The opinions expressed on my site are my own, and were not influenced by the company or free product provided.
If we won, we would make lots of art! My kids love trying new art media.
My boys would make pictures of Angry Birds!
My kids would be making Christmas pictures to decorate the walls.
I would draw a happy face for winning! 🙂
Wow these are so neat! I would be using them all of the time in our art projects
My kids would just love to draw with them.
With the kwikstix, we would make lots and lots of birthday cards! (my kids love to do that for family, friends, etc…) 🙂
My child has recently been diagnosed with Cerebral palsy. Has has always had delays, but now we understand why. I think this product can really help him with his art work. He loves making up stories and his teacher has the class making books. This could really enhance his story pictures.
This would be fun to use in the Worlds Greatest Artist study!
We use your Expedition Earth curriculum and have already done some of the art projects. We would definitely use these for some of them.