Crayola Glow Station can create with Light! | 
 enlarge | Brand: Crayola
Category: Toy
List Price: $39.66
Buy New: $35.90
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 201
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 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...
 Crayola Glow Boards Rock For Children January 6, 2009
Faye B. Hildenbrand (Lansing, MI USA)
My son was very scared of the dark, and now that I bought this product for him he sleeps much longer in his own bed at night. As a mom you want to buy products for your children that will last, and withstand a beating. Crayola has always been a good product, and I really like this one. I even play with it when my son is not around. Buy it for your kids you'll be happy that you did.
GREAT FUN!!! January 6, 2009
J. Smith (Texas)
This is a great product for children of all ages. I would recommend it for younger ones too....3 yrs and up! It is self containing and holds all the pieces from the glow board that you hang on the wall. So no messy pieces. I bought it for my 5 year old and she loves it. We put it in her closet for complete darkness and she spends lots of time in there playing with it. Perfect for creative children who love to express themselves through art and drawing.
AAAA++++ Wonderful thanks again Crayola!
 A Big Disappointment January 5, 2009
Angry Mom
Yet another toy that looks WAY better than it is. Drawings fade immediately so there's no way it will ever look like the pics on the box. Can't get sheet to unroll flat, despite bending it backwards. Children very disappointed. Crayola should be ashamed of this piece of junk - the cost of the inputs must be about [...].
We love it!! January 4, 2009
momma24 (FL)
I don't get what all the negative reviews are about. We just got this for my 4 yr old son for Christmas, hung it up a couple nights later and it's been a hit ever since. Hubby and I think it's super cool! My son LOVES it, and shows it to everyone that comes over. I haven't had the issue of the drawings fading in 4-5 seconds, just the opposite. When I had my MIL over watching as he drew, she even asked what we had to do to erase it... it just didn't disappear fast like I'm now reading people have problems with! We had no problem installing it either, hubby got out his drill and that was that.
He did take away the dry erase marker before our son was the wiser. I have no clue what it's even for but just the light pen is enough for the kids to have a blast with. Totally worth what I paid. =)
Only problem we have had is that my 2.5 year old LOVES this and now I am on the hunt for another!! ;)
 Crayola Glow Station January 4, 2009
Valerie Jones (Perkasie, Pa.)
For some reason I thought this was a hand held glow board, but this is a sheet of flimsy like plastic that glows when written on with the lighted pen. There is nothing to erase your doodles with so you have to wait until they fade. We hung it up next to my grandson's bed and he does not use it very much. I must say that I was alittle disapointed with this toy.
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