Design Your Own Clear Basketball Kit

by Design Your Own

Product Features

• DYO clear basketball kit is sure to get your child excited to paint, practice, and play
• Unique clear hollow basketball
• Creates abstract art and great visual effects
• Encourages children to stay active and healthy
• Fosters children's creativity

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 3.5 x 12.5 inches ; 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005CDP0
• Item model number: KUBB
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,242 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

Part of our sport craft kit line, the Design Your Own Basketball Kit is a unique and exciting item. This kit combines sports and crafts in a most innovative way. Our kit includes everything you need to make a personalized basketball - a clear, real feel and weight basketball, specialized non-toxic paint that adheres to the inside of the basketball, paint injector, pump with needle and instructions. The paint is injected into the basketball (using a special paint injector through the air valve) when swirled around - creates a tie-dyed effect or a starburst pattern of colors. Like most of our kits, the Design Your Own Basketball is great for both boys and girls.

Product Description

Design Your Own sports kits combine art and athletics, allowing children to express his or her creativity and individuality while being active on the field or court. With the Design Your Own Real Basketball Kit, children can decorate their own one-of-a-kind real basketball. Whether the theme is school colors or team mascots, friends names or teammates, signatures, or simply your child?s unique design, the DYO real basketball kit is sure to get your child excited to paint, practice, and play.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars the bad points,& good, December 23, 2002

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N. Yoho (Lawrence, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Design Your Own Clear Basketball Kit (Toy)

I bought this for my 6 year old & she opened it as an early present.The ball is ok,it bounces much farther than a real basketball,being made of a different sort of rubber.Ok for bouncing but not to good for real basketball. The paint was fun to inject into the ball,but you can't really control where it goes though.As it turns out,that doesn't matter because all the paint mixed and puddled in the bottom of the ball.It doesn't seem to be drying in there.So don't get your hopes up artisticlly,but its fun for 4 to 6 year olds.don't pay full price for this,wait until its at least 50% off.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unique and Creative, This ball will be one of a KIND!, March 10, 2004

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"lupobunch" (CORNWALL, NY United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Design Your Own Clear Basketball Kit (Toy)

My 5 year old son received the 'Design Your Own Basketball' kit as a birthday present from a friend.

We opened the package and used the provided air pump to inflate the translucent ball. The pump was easy enough for my 5 year old to operate and he had a fun time inflating the ball himself - it made him feel 'strong' :) After inflating the ball, he chose the paint color he would use first. He chose red... I filled up the provided paint injector with the red paint, inserted the tip into the ball and he squoze the paint in the ball. We bounced the ball back and forth to each other... distributing the paint in a splatter like pattern around the inside of the ball. It looked really neat! We then used all the other colors and bounced each one to make a neat pattern and complete the ball.

My son is very proud of his creation, he did most of it himself...AND he has a unique ball that no one else in the neighborhood has :) We would recommend this kit to others and will buy some in the future to give as gifts too!

Have fun!

3.0 out of 5 stars tricky, January 29, 2010

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D. Baker "Chameleon Mom" - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Design Your Own Clear Basketball Kit (Toy)

My son was very excited when he opened this gift! He insisted we make this ball right away. In the end we were disappointed. We were able to inflate the ball, but were unable to use the paint. We could not get the syringe to suck up the paint. In the end my husband broke the syringe. The ball itself is nice and bounces well, but the whole "design it" thing didn't work out for us.