Three ways to make colour
Most starter art kits give a child one medium and a quick burst of interest. This one holds three. Sixteen coloured pencils handle shading and detail, fourteen felt-tip pens give bold, confident lines, and twelve watercolour blocks add soft washes.
At around 5 years, children start wanting their drawings to look the way they imagine them. Having pencil, pen and paint side by side lets them test what each does. Outline in pen, shade with pencil, then brush watercolour over the top. As their control grows, simple colouring-in gives way to layered pictures with shading, detail and washes that stay inside the lines.
Skills built at the table
The watercolour blocks need a wet brush, so kids learn to control water as well as colour. Too much and the paint floods. Too little and it drags. That judgement, plus the light grip needed for a fine brush, builds the same finger control used in handwriting.
The pencil, sharpener and eraser matter too. Children practise drafting, correcting and trying again, which builds the persistence that school-age drawing and writing both rely on. Browse more in our art and craft range.
Set up, pack up
The cardboard case holds everything together, so setup takes seconds and nothing goes missing. The outside is illustrated and can be coloured in, so children can make the set their own.
Measuring approximately 26 x 21 cm and about 4 cm deep, and weighing around 590 g, it slides into a school bag, sits on a car tray or fits a shelf. It's quiet, needs no batteries, and works well for independent play while you get on with dinner. Add paper and a cup of water and they're set.