After some time off from our weekly Friday Favorites style post, I decided it was time to bring it back but with a slight change of format. This idea came to me when the kids wanted to make a marker this week and I thought that this was a super cool product that I would like to share with everyone. I've shared products before randomly and will continue to do so likely in other posts if the need comes up but Friday Favorites will now be a dedicated weekly post for a specific product or two that our family is really into right now.
I don't use affiliate links, though I did think about it. I don't know that I would post enough products or that the products I choose to link would be enough to sustain creating the affiliate links. However, I know I have some friends that do this, so if you have any tips or think it could be worth it, please send me an email or message on FB and give me some insight. ;)
Anyway...
This week the kids insisted that we make a few new markers. The Crayola Marker Maker is a super cool contraption that Kenzie was given as a Christmas present this year from our neighbors. Kenzie is ridiculously into all things art right now. The kids spends hours drawing, coloring, painting, cutting, gluing... you get the idea. She tells us that she is our little artist and apparently believes she is the best artist in the family (and she very well might be). She is also really into science type projects. So, a gift like this was right up her alley.
We have made a few markers in the last few months and are almost done with our first set of possible markers to make so we will be purchasing a refill kit soon, I'm sure. This kit initially started as the wacky tips kit but there are various options you can buy. Kenzie actually loves all the weird tips for the markers. She has three or four "dark purple" colors but they are all different tips, so they are technically all different. Haha!
Everything you need to make markers is included starting with a list of possible color combinations recommended.
Once you decide on your color, you get to be a "scientist" as Kenzie puts it and put the ink drops into the little measuring things before adding the part of the marker that soaks up the ink. I'm sure there is a technical term for that... but I don't know what it is. This is Kenzie's favorite part. I haven't gotten to the point yet that I let her do the ink alone because I have spilled it a couple of times and I have a feeling that she would definitely spill it. It is washable, but still not worth risking. I let her add the marker center ink soaker upper thing though with these cute tweezers that come in the kit.
Once all the ink is soaked up, you transfer the ink holder thing (I really should learn the name of that) to the marker that you already put your selected tip in. I didn't take a picture of that part, but the directions are easy to follow. There is a special part in the kit that holds it upright in preparation for attaching the marker bottom. I even let Will help with that part usually but you have to be careful to not drop the center because the ink can get everywhere.
The next part is Will's favorite. You put the plastic bottom on the marker and use the kit to seal it all up.
Then you cap the marker and sit it with the tip down to make the ink flow into it. In about 3 minutes, you have a marker with your custom color! Kenzie always tests the color then she chooses what to call it. You write it on these cute labels and attach to the marker. The kit even comes with marker boxes to put your markers in that you can decorate.
When I was grabbing links for this post I found out there is a pastel refill. I think we will get that one next once we run out of marker pieces in the initial kit.
If you have a little artist, we cannot recommend this highly enough. Kenzie loves to use the markers she created. So much fun!
I don't use affiliate links, though I did think about it. I don't know that I would post enough products or that the products I choose to link would be enough to sustain creating the affiliate links. However, I know I have some friends that do this, so if you have any tips or think it could be worth it, please send me an email or message on FB and give me some insight. ;)
Anyway...
This week the kids insisted that we make a few new markers. The Crayola Marker Maker is a super cool contraption that Kenzie was given as a Christmas present this year from our neighbors. Kenzie is ridiculously into all things art right now. The kids spends hours drawing, coloring, painting, cutting, gluing... you get the idea. She tells us that she is our little artist and apparently believes she is the best artist in the family (and she very well might be). She is also really into science type projects. So, a gift like this was right up her alley.
We have made a few markers in the last few months and are almost done with our first set of possible markers to make so we will be purchasing a refill kit soon, I'm sure. This kit initially started as the wacky tips kit but there are various options you can buy. Kenzie actually loves all the weird tips for the markers. She has three or four "dark purple" colors but they are all different tips, so they are technically all different. Haha!
Everything you need to make markers is included starting with a list of possible color combinations recommended.
Once you decide on your color, you get to be a "scientist" as Kenzie puts it and put the ink drops into the little measuring things before adding the part of the marker that soaks up the ink. I'm sure there is a technical term for that... but I don't know what it is. This is Kenzie's favorite part. I haven't gotten to the point yet that I let her do the ink alone because I have spilled it a couple of times and I have a feeling that she would definitely spill it. It is washable, but still not worth risking. I let her add the marker center ink soaker upper thing though with these cute tweezers that come in the kit.
Once all the ink is soaked up, you transfer the ink holder thing (I really should learn the name of that) to the marker that you already put your selected tip in. I didn't take a picture of that part, but the directions are easy to follow. There is a special part in the kit that holds it upright in preparation for attaching the marker bottom. I even let Will help with that part usually but you have to be careful to not drop the center because the ink can get everywhere.
The next part is Will's favorite. You put the plastic bottom on the marker and use the kit to seal it all up.
Then you cap the marker and sit it with the tip down to make the ink flow into it. In about 3 minutes, you have a marker with your custom color! Kenzie always tests the color then she chooses what to call it. You write it on these cute labels and attach to the marker. The kit even comes with marker boxes to put your markers in that you can decorate.
When I was grabbing links for this post I found out there is a pastel refill. I think we will get that one next once we run out of marker pieces in the initial kit.
If you have a little artist, we cannot recommend this highly enough. Kenzie loves to use the markers she created. So much fun!
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