Roadtrip Travel Toy: Water WOW
June 18, 2007 by Kerri Aldrich
Filed under Arts and Crafts, Children's Toys, Colouring Books and other Activity Books, Road Trip Travel Toy, Toddler Toys
One of my favorite finds this spring was the Water Wow! line of “coloring books” from Giddy Up. Including Backyardigans, Hello Kitty, Dora the Explorer and Sesame Street themed Water Wow! Doodle Books, these little books provide a clean, stain-free experience for your kids.
I didn’t actually purchase them for the car, but rather for my in-laws’ house. They recently moved back to our area, and I wanted to bring something to their new house that the kids could play with, but that wouldn’t risk ruining anything that didn’t belong to us. The Water WOW sets come with a sturdy tablet of about 4 pictures that can be “colored” with the water pen. It’s not a long-term source of entertainment, but it is nice because the colors disappear when the tablet pages dry out. So, it’s nice to have at my in-laws’ house because it’s a novel toy that we don’t have at home, and it’s ready to reuse each time we show up.
They remind me of those “watercolor books” from when we were little. Do you remember those? The pages of the books were white, but you could see little dots of color in groups over the pages. You could get a wet paint brush or a Q-tip and “paint” the pages of the book. I went looking for those a couple of years ago and couldn’t find any. Anyone else remember those?
Yes, I remember those books. We had some at my grandmothers house where the risk of getting anything dirty was a carefully, carefully managed risk.
Kate: I knew I couldn’t be the only one who remembered those. I wonder what kind of grandma I will be one day, the kind where structure and cleanliness is expected, or where the fingerpaints are pulled out every time. Probably somewhere in between, like my mom, I’d guess.
I always get these for Girlie Girl to occupy her at the restaurant or on plane rides. I love it!