My husband and I and the kids just spent 45 minutes sitting together at the kitchen table (almost a record time!) coloring our personalized Crayola StoryStudio printable coloring book pages.   We had such a blast and my husband even said “We need to have a coloring night every week.”.  No kidding, that’s what he said!  You too can try Crayola’s StoryStudio!  Use code access code PRY4DBJJ on Crayola StoryStudio‘s page to get free access to Crayola’s StoryStudio for 48 hours.

There’s still time to order for Christmas delivery!

* Before you read further, note that as of today, December 23rd, you can still have some Crayola items delivered in time for Christmas from Amazon.com.  Here is a direct link to Amazon.com’s Crayola page.

Crayola is offering more than 30 ways to give the gift of imagination for under $30  this holiday season with a lineup  of gifts to inspire wonder, adventure and dreams in toddlers to tweens.

Crayola has created an on-line gift guide making it easy to select the perfect creative activity for the child on your list. It´s available at www.Crayola.com/gifts. You can search the Crayola Gift Guide by age, gender and type of product, like mess-free and washable products and activities that offer surprising experiences. Who wouldn´t be surprised to watch their artwork light up in the dark in multiple colors!

Top picks from the Gift Guide include:

Never before has paper been a surface for creating glowing drawings! Glow Explosion Spin Magic is a revolutionary activity toy that lets kids create multi-colored glow-in-the-dark art with markers that light up like glow sticks on paper. The spinning base lets kids create magical mobiles and whirling lanterns for a never-before-seen “glow show” that will wow the entire family when the lights go out. Colorful, glowing shapes like planets or hot air balloons appear as if they are spinning in mid-air. The base unit doubles as a lantern with five different scenes that create cool shadow-effects as they rotate around the radiant, glowing designs created on Glow Explosion paper. $19.99, 6+

The Crayola Color Wonder Sound Studio makes coloring a magical mess-free adventure for little eyes and ears! Kids can add fun, action-packed sound effects like dinosaur roars, motor cycle engines, giggles and even the voices of Buzz Lightyear, Woody and the Disney Princesses to their coloring pages. Sounds play back when they color their pictures. Just choose a sound and add it anywhere on the coloring page to create one-of-a-kind coloring stories with surprising sound effects. Kids can also play back all the sounds they experienced while they were coloring. Sixty sounds can be matched to any image on any page for hours of colorful fun! $29.99, 3+ Buy here

Crayola Model Magic Presto Dots received “Toy of the Year” honors from Good Housekeeping, Parenting and Parents magazines. The “magic” behind Presto Dots comes from Model Magic´s – a truly different modeling material that doesn´t crumble. It´s not clay, it´s not dough – it´s Crayola Model Magic. Kids can create 3-D, bumpy characters with the easy-to-use “Pop-Dot” tool that grabs just the right amount of Model Magic for building an original creature. A quick press and pop covers characters with presto dots. Pop away with different colored dots, or pop dots on top of dots to create original 3-D creatures that air-dry in 24 hours. $19.99, 5+ Buy here

So why are Crayola crayons, a holiday classic and a perennial stocking stuffer on the list? This year, specially-marked Crayola crayon boxes (48, 64, 96, 120-ct. as well as the 150-ct. Crayon Tower) include a free code that provides 6-month unlimited access to the Story Studio custom coloring book maker. What a great value! Available at Crayola.com, Story Studio allows kids to transform themselves into a cartoon character from a digital photo or web cam image, customize their character with hats, sunglasses, costumes and other fun accessories and then select a theme to create a custom story book they can print and color. Story Studio was named “High Tech Toy of the Year” by the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. $5-$15, 3+

If you are planning on shopping Crayola for the holidays, be sure to download a rebate form at www.crayola.com/promos/holidayFSI/. You could save over $20!

For the complete Holiday Gift Guide, visit www.crayola.com/gifts. Also, be sure to “Like” Crayola on Facebook and follow them on Twitter to keep up with the latest news from Crayola and special holiday deals!

GIVEAWAY!

We are giving a lucky reader a Crayola Glow Explosion Spin Magic, Crayola Mess Free Color Wonder Sound Studio, Crayola Model Magic Presto Dots and a 64 Box of Crayola Crayons!

To enter, leave a comment below telling us how you plan on giving the gift of imagination this year or what Crayola gift you think their child would most enjoy.

Entries accepted through 12/28

Disclosure: Crayola provided you with the free Crayola products for yourself and to give away through MyBlogSpark.

Enjoy!

There’s still time to order for Christmas delivery!

* Before you read further, note that as of today, December 23rd, you can still have some Crayola items delivered in time for Christmas from Amazon.com.  Here is a direct link to Amazon.com’s Crayola page.