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Fun art project for kids and adults!
I had one of these as a kid in the 80s, I think it was called the Twirl-O-Paint! so I was so excited to get one for my own kids, who are 6 & 8. It is a little smaller than the original lol but that’s ok, still provides the same enjoyment for the kids! We love seeing how each piece turns out, they are so fun and different each time! The quality is good, and nice that it comes with a good amount of paint and paper. It is easy to clean, just remove the splatter guard and wipe with a damp cloth. Just remember to wipe it down right away when the paint is still wet, it comes off easily.

HIghly anticipated gift
The most asked for thing this Christmas for my niece. This will be a fun toy with great memories of creating art for her.

Cool concept but the paint splatter is ridiculous
Cool concept but EXTREMELY MESSY.

Difficult to clean, but fun
We just got this yesterday and my daughter has had so much fun using this since then!That said, do I recommend this product?: Maybe. Read below for a more in-depth review.This product is fun and includes great colors – I love the metallic colors they include, even if those 3 are small bottles.The major drawbacks of the product mainly center around cleanup. There is no way my daughter can clean this up by herself, so a lot of the autonomy of this is gone.One of the reasons its difficult to clean up is the battery compartment within the unit. I bought this unit because I didn’t want to have to spin it manually, but now I see the drawbacks to a powered unit. Embedded battery compartment + water = bad news for cleaning. It might have been a smarter design if the motorized part of the unit were a removable, rotating, notched ‘pin’ that sticks in and attaches underneath the unit and spins during use, but can be removed for cleaning.I also don’t yet understand the purpose for all of the negative shapes in the yellow piece that holds the papers, but it just makes it tougher to clean than a solid piece would have been. One or two holes to put your fingers in to pull the piece out would have been sufficient.The rounded bumps that the clear plastic cover fits over also trap paint like crazy and are so annoying to clean. I feel like the space between them was unnecessary and is just a pain to clean.The embedded paint bottle holder section is cute and somewhat handy…if you only ever plan to use the manufacturers paint. Unfortunately, they trap paint during normal use and during cleaning and they are difficult to clean. A simple, seperate, lidded container would probably have been better for paint storage and holding.Also, the paints were inconsistent. Some worked great, but some of the paints didn’t work as expected and would hit the paper and immediately go flying in a giant gloop off to the side, onto the cover, barely getting any color at all onto the page. (We noticed this with the yellow and blue, in particular, and somewhat with the gold.) I don’t know yet if some of the paints were too viscous or the machine spins too fast, or both.Tip 1:When squeezing paint, hold it away from you, tilted backward, but have the tip end pointed at the page but a bit *toward* you. It seems counterintuitive, but it was the only way the gloopy paints worked.Tip 2:Let the unit get up to full speed (takes about 2 seconds) and then turn it off and try to squeeze the paint onto it as it is slowing a bit. The slightly slower speeds worked good for us and created some more interesting designs.Elaboration on whether I would recommend this product or not:I am undecided. Now that I know the pitfalls, I would first see if there are other powered units that are easier to clean for children to be more independent with. I do like this powered version over the manually-powered Tyco Swirl Art from my childhood, though.

So fun! My students LOVE it! Works well with watercolors too (I did not dare try the paint included in my class of 5 year olds:-). My only warning would be to make sure those little fingers don’t touch it while it’s spinning- it is powerful!

Grandson loved it and so will my granddaughter when she sees it! Works great and a lot of fun, only thing is I wish it had more colours. Would buy again!

My son loved this activity. Unfortunately we received two blue paints and no yellow paint. Despite this he enjoyed the activity. I would purchase again as a gift. Hopefully the next one comes with all the colours.