Disney Fairies, Tinkerbell and Silvermist, Paint Your Own Statue

My wife purchased two different sets (a Rapunzel/Tiana Set and a Tinkerbell/Silvermist Set) for my two daughters (ages 3 and 6) and their friends for a birthday sleepover art project. Overall, the girls had fun painting them, but from a parent's perspective, they could be much better.The statues look nice and the paint went on pretty well, but the end result can be pretty messy. The girls had fun doing the painting, but I don't see them as a long term keepsake.The primary frustration is that all of these sets are mass produced, as expected, and there is little thought put into the paint colors that are needed to match each character. All of the sets come with the same set of 6 paint colors (red, yellow, blue, green, white & black) in a small strip of tiny canisters that are all attached together. They also come with instructions how how to mix these standard colors to get colors that are needed for the included characters. The problem is that the complex instructions can require 3 or more colors in varying amounts. For example, to get the Purple color you needed for Rapunzel's dress, you had to mix all the red paint, all the blue paint, and one third of another color. This is pretty complex for a kid to do perfectly (even with adult help). Maybe you get the right color, but once you make the purple, you no have no red or blue paint left to use on any other parts of the statue. And if a kid doesn't mix it perfectly, now all you have is a mess with no extra. In addition, Tiana's dress was so large, that there wasn't enough green paint to cover it, so we had to use the green from one of the other sets. If we didn't have another set, we'd be out of luck. Getting skin tones for the Princesses and the Fairies was even more complicated to mix.Long story short, if you're just looking for something for your kids to do and don't really care about making the statues look like the cartoons, this is probably fine. If your child is a perfectionist and wants to make the faces and colors match their favorite characters, you could be in for some trouble. In my opinion, it would have been nice if the manufacturer customized the paint colors for the characters in the box. I'm sure they did it this way to save money, but what you end up with is a mediocre throw-away product.

My grandaughter was thrilled with her gift. She was all set to start her craft when we discovered the paints were completley dried out and hard. What a disappointment to a 5 year old!

I got these for a fun project for my daughter to help me paint to put in our garden love the detail and great price.

Great for a gift

this is an awesome product. two statues, two paintbrushes, and two strips of paint, so each kid can have their own complete set. plus the paint went on well and dried quickly, yet washed off the wooden high chair no problem. i am going to buy more, but i found them for about half the price at my local drug store.