Melissa & Doug On the Go Water Wow! Reusable Alphabet & Animal Activity Cards - Perfect for Travel, Preschool Learning & Quiet Play

A great educational activity to keep on hand instead of screen time. My kids love these and they are easy to pack and have available when out and about. Lots of funI bought this for my little niece, she's artistic and loves it..... add water to the pen and no worries about crayon and marker stains anywhere, I'm a fanMy toddler loves these cards. I love that you can color the picture and trace the letters too. These cards can really grow with a child.Love the M&D water WOW products. These are great for travelling, waiting rooms, restaurants...pretty much anywhere you need to keep your child occupied. Just toss these in your purse or diaper bag and you've got ready, mess free entertainment for your little one.This flash card style kit comes with a plastic ring that holds all of the cards as well as the plastic housing for the pen. The ring has plenty of room and doesn't feel cramped at all. You put some water in the included "pen" (I don't fill it, just add a little bit at a time) and give it a little squeeze to wet the brush end and your little one is ready to go. As you run the wet brush across the card the colors become bright and clear. You can see the picture when the card is dry but it appears as though it's coated in a white film, not at all clear, and some items blend in completely until the water is applied. I've noticed with both these and the book style ones that the pages warp with pretty much the first use, thus far this hasn't caused any issues with functionality, they just don't lay as flat as they did fresh out of the package and that really impacts the book style more so than these. There are a lot of cards and it can be a little cumbersome, especially for small hands, if you find this is an issue for your child you could easily just have one subject matter on the ring at a time and store the other two in the box they came in or in a zip lock bag. I usually dump the water out before storing the pen as this seems to be the intelligent thing to do but on the two occasions that I was in a rush & forgot to do this, the pen did not leak.Our 3 yr old really enjoys these and I like how easy they are to use and that they don't require any clean up. With the pages/cards warping so early on I'm interested to see how long they last but so far, so good.These things are awesome. You can't go wrong with these!! Heck I played with it when it arrived - thought it was awesome to watch it get 'painted' - then watch it vanish (if you have a ceiling fan this can be a quick process with one coat of water!).If your kid is still working on the pressure aspect of coloring & writing (how much pressure to apply when using a paint brush or a crayon or pencil, etc.) then these might not last too long - the film that makes them whited out when dry will peel off if you push the paint brush down too hard (which is easily done by any 2yo I imagine - our first one lasted maybe 2 weeks - but that was 2 weeks of literally daily use). And of course make sure they don't use crayons on this...which my son has certainly done when I wasn't looking. But at this price I think it's way beyond worth it.My son prefers the bound spiral book versions of these - especially the letter one (despite being a vehicle fanatic - he ended up being more fascinated with the letter book - mainly the last page where there's empty space below the letter Z - the colors are super vibrant and he would just paint shapes & basically color on that page with the water paintbrush). I really really really wish they would come out with more versions of those...these might be better for the older kids (where they have the concentration to go from page to page - my kid loses focus in that brief timespan of trying to flip the card over...but hopefully we're almost past that!). But still - these are great...all you need is water....can't get much easier than that!This is great and easy to use.Very nice product - hours of entertainment for our 2-year-old - just perfect for restaurants, doctor's offices, etc. Great concept and works great for the most part. My kid loves it.Three ways that M&D could improve this product:1) The opaque white film is not as opaque on this product as it is on the Water WOW spiral books. So there isn't quite the same mystery - my kid can identify each animal/object before he even puts pen to paper. But, he still seems plenty motivated, so I guess it still works.2) The opaque white film is also not that durable. It scratches off easily, when my kid holds the pen at an angle a ridge on it leaves scratch marks.3) The plastic ring is a great add, but there needs to be a better way to store the pen. The plastic blisterpack in which the pen comes packaged has a hole in it so you can add it onto the ring, but it is awkward and bulky. Also there's no top for the pen, which means you can't leave any water in the pen whatsoever before storing it, or it will leak out and permanently damage the cards.I do recommend this product though, as well as the Water WOW books, for younger toddlers, say ages 2-3. I'm guessing older kids with greater physical dexterity would have more fun actually using their imaginations more and coloring on their own.My only complaint is that these are thin. Not thick cardboard pages like the other four after wow products, more like cardstock. The ring is also super flimsy. This product will not hold up as well as our other many water wow. But I appreciate the educational content.Trae 26 tarjetas con números, colores u formas geométricas. Cada tarjeta trae la palabra en inglés y detrás de la tarjeta viene más información para ampliar el conocimiento. Mi hijo tiene tres años y le llamó mucho la atención. Se divierte mucho y sin hacer tiradero. Actualizaré cuando haya pasado algún tiempo para mencionar en qué estado se encuentran las tarjetas.I love that these cards are just a blank square, my daughter (3 years old) scribbles it in, or dabs polka dots into the square until the whole picture is revealed. She loves it! I however am a little disappointed with the quality. For something that is meant to be used with water I would have hoped for the cards to be at least be a little bit water resistant, but they are just cardboard (think cereal box cardboard) with the colouring square on it. It’s rated for 2+, the entire card gets wet. First use the edges are swelling and folding from the water, the colouring square scratches off with the pen if they push too hard. Again, it’s rated for 2+ I would have expected something a little more durable. I’ve seen much better quality of this type of item before. I could have spent MUCH less and gotten the same quality. As for the subject matter. The alphabet is great, the back of the card tells you other things that start with the same letter and the pictures are cute. ?‍♀️ I would have preferred paying less for the item, but my daughter loves it, so I guess we will use them a few times and throw them out. I know better for next time.Mi pequeña de 2 años recibió un cuaderno de estos como regalo, y decidí probarlo en un viaje de 2 horas: se la pasó muy entretenida, me mostraba, muy emocionada, lo que había pintado, buscaba los elementos ocultos en cada página, y lo mejor: no había manchas por ninguna parte al terminar de jugar!Cada cuadernito trae 4 hojas, y un pincel con un depósito que se llena de agua. Al mojar cada hoja con el pincel, se ven las figuras ocultas tras una superficie blanca, y al secarse se vuelven a ocultar, por lo que es reutilizable.Estoy tan satisfecha que ya le compré más modelos! y unos cuadernitos adicionales para regalar a sus compañeritos en sus cumpleaños :)Mi pequeña de 2 años recibió un cuaderno de estos como regalo, y decidí probarlo en un viaje de 2 horas: se la pasó muy entretenida, me mostraba, muy emocionada, lo que había pintado, buscaba los elementos ocultos en cada página, y lo mejor: no había manchas por ninguna parte al terminar de jugar!Cada cuadernito trae 4 hojas, y un pincel con un depósito que se llena de agua. Al mojar cada hoja con el pincel, se ven las figuras ocultas tras una superficie blanca, y al secarse se vuelven a ocultar, por lo que es reutilizable.Estoy tan satisfecha que ya le compré más modelos! y unos cuadernitos adicionales para regalar a sus compañeritos en sus cumpleaños :)The way the card set is set up is great. There are so many different ways you can use them. The only downside is the cheap quality of the images. The material covering the image, that is meant to get transparent with water, is so see through even when dry, that it sort of defeats the purpose. But my daughter loves it nonetheless.