Fisher Price Creative Activities Spark Art Easel

by Fisher-Price

Product Features

• Combination of built-in interactive content along with included media like magnets, dry-erase sheets, 3D models and more
• Kids simply touch the interactive buttons or fun media with the magic pen to let the creativity begin
• Modes include Create and Discover, 3 Idea Starter buttons, 6 color buttons, as well as the full alphabet
• Easel is also height adjustable and even converts to a creativity table
• Age range 3 to 10 years

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 16.6 x 37.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 18.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000ETREOW
• Item model number: K0026
• Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 7 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,325 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Unlock your child's imagination with the Spark Art Creativity System Easel. Two modes of play and more than 600 interactive voice prompts and sound effects guide and inspire kids' imagination and creative expression! Optical reader technology lets kids create and discover as they play and learn. Here's how it works: Inspiration Pen reads hidden codes on all kinds of Spark Art accessories--dry-erase scene-starter backgrounds, color-by-sound activity pages, magic-sound magnets, and more! Inspiration Pod magically responds with over 600 fun sounds and interactive voice prompts that spark imagination and inspire creativity! Three-position, height-adjustable, dry-erase easel easily converts to a creativity table with lots of room for accessory storage. It's portable and expandable, too--the Inspiration Pen, the Inspiration Pod, and all Spark Art accessories work away from the easel. Includes: 6 dry-erase markers, 2 double-sided, dry-erase scene-starter backgrounds, 5 color-by-sound activity pages, 12 magic-sound magnets, 2 magic-sound 3-D models, Eraser, Inspiration Pod requires 3 AA (LR6 alkaline) batteries, not included. Dry-erase, magnetic drawing surface measures approximately 20 inches wide by 12 1/2 inches high. Base footprint measures approximately 25 inches wide by 15 1/2 inches deep. Minimum height is approximately 38 inches; surface adjusts to a maximum height of approximately 46 inches.

Product Description

This innovative easel really sparks your child's creativity. It's height-adjustable to accommodate all young artists, and features several fun, interactive modes. Kids can simply touch the "Idea Starter" buttons with a magic pen to let the creativity begin. Various art mediums include magnets, dry-erase sheets and 3-D models to build. Also includes a handy carry case. Easel requires three "AAA" batteries, not included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really Really Good, October 11, 2006

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William's Mom (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fisher Price Creative Activities Spark Art Easel (Toy)

I just recently bought my son the easel for his 3rd birthday. Its not hard to assemble, with the use of only a screw driver i was done in about 20 minutes. The easel comes with a few dry eraser markers and the magnetic shapes that make sounds and a few other things. My son enjoyed looking at it but after I finished building it i realized that this easel doesnt come with a what to do with it booklet. I wanted more of a suggested ways to use the easel without guessing. I then went to the fisher price web site and bought some accessories i bought 3 activity packs that included family, dinosaurs and music. Again no booklet just heres the toy and you figuere how to play with it and what to do with it. This gets very boring to a 3 year old with a short tolerance for what happens next. Knowing this i actually started to show him what are somethings he can draw and hear the sounds of things, and noticed that the speaker isnt very loud. The only one i strongly suggest you buy is the family activity pack. It has alot of words that you can make sentences, act out feelings and even teach correct way of saying things. My son loves to put different words together and then see what it says.
I think this toy is great, i just wish that it would have come with instructions.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So Excited....Terribly Dissapointed, December 26, 2006

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M. Bakula (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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I was so excited to get this easel for my two sons (4 and 2). I even bought 4 extra sets! They would be totally set. My husband put the easel together in about 30-45 mins....not too hard. The easel itself looks really cool, but there are a ton of things wrong with it. 1. The clips that hold the activity sheets are really stiff, so much so that it's hard for me to lift them, hows a child going to? 2. There isn't any type of storage for the activity sheets, so they just sit below the easel waiting to get scrunched. 3. When you purchase extra sets, they come in little boxes. So the activity sheets are gently folded in half to fit in the boxes. Well, since they are laminated, they aren't laying out flat when you take them out of the box...thus, the magnets that this system uses wont stick to the paper. I tried and tried to flatten out the paper. I rolled them into a tube the opposite direction, long ways and short ways all different directions to get this paper to lay down and flatten out. No such luck. I was VERY frustrated. 4. There is NO storage for all the pieces that come in the extra sets. The easel itself will hold the markers and stuff, but unless you want the dozens of magnets loose, i had to put them in a plastic zip lock, and then they were all mixed up. I know that I could have put them in separate bags...that's not the point. I thought that they should have had some sort of magnetic sheets that you could store all the magnets on...including storing all the coloring sheets. This was such a cool concept...i wish they would have put a little more thought into the parents side of things. And, as the other review stated, there were no directions, or suggestions on how to use it. Your on your own to figure it out. I would strongly suggest to all my friends and family not to waste their time or money on this product. Instead, just buy a huge roll or paper from IKEA and let the kids go to town with washable markers...using their own imaginations.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, January 11, 2007

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E. M. Hoagland "Auntie E" (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews
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This thing is amazing! Easy to construct (I put it together in 45 minutes by myself), easy to move, and wonderful! My three-year-old niece had an amazing time discovering all its bells and whistles but I think her father and I had more fun analyzing it after she went to sleep! There's some criticism out there that this is not appropriate for kids because it somehow dilutes their imaginations. This is absolutely not the case. My niece loves drawing people and things and making up stories about them. The sounds and suggestions only enhance her natural curiosity and skills and her parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles adore playing with her with it, making it a great family-time activity.