This Crayola Paper Fantastic comes in a large box and makes a substantial birthday present to unwrap. The contents of the box are simple, well laid out and consist of : 1 x Paper Fantastic unit, 1 x plastic stencil, 1 x glue stick, 3 x Crayola felt tip pens, 60 x sheets of coloured tissue paper and 4 x A5 card templates to make various 3D creations.
The instructions could have been better, there are step by step diagrams but very little written support to take you through what you should be doing. This said the concept is quite simple and all you really do is use a plastic template to run glue is straight lines on the tissue paper which gets layered up. once you have layered enough sheets of tissue paper you can then cut out one of the various designs which creates a honeycomb 3D paper creation.
My two children five and six particularly liked making the hot air balloon card and also the stand along decorations. The concept is simple and engaging but there is quite a bit of supervision required for younger children. It would have been nice if the instructions told you how many sheets of tissue paper to layer up, our first attempt was a little short so the results weren't great. Once we got the hang of it we were really pleased with the results.
There is a fair bit of cleaning to do before packing up, the plastic template gets covered in glue. Also the tissue paper wouldn't last long, we have used over half already (do craft shops sell tissue paper the right size to fit with this product or would every sheet have to be cut to size? could be quite time consuming).
In summary this is a really good craft kit, simple and engaging, with better instructions and more tissue paper provided I would have given it five stars.