PreschoolDoll Designs Review and Giveaway - CLOSED

PreschoolDoll Designs

Let me introduce you to Crystal, owner/creator of PreschoolDoll Designs!

"My degree is in Early Childhood Education, and I taught preschool, before deciding to stay home with my son (Preston 6 months old). While teaching, to save money, I made a lot of my own supplies. My husband, Ryan, sometimes helped too. He'd get right on the floor and help cut out construction paper shapes, or run things through the laminator. Other teachers always commented on my supplies and asked where I got them. That's when I first realized there might be a business behind it-or at least a way to make extra money, since preschool/childcare is historically a low paying field. A few years later, I found Etsy and fell in love. While I daydreamed about an Etsy shop, it never occurred to me to start selling my preschool products. Then, Preston was born, and I needed something else to focus on. Something for myself and a way to utilize the degree I was still paying off. With my husband's support, I gained the confidence to jump in, and I'm so glad I did! My goal, at PreschoolDoll Designs, is to equip educators with affordable, and time saving, classroom supplies. I also hope to reach the homeschooling community and stay-at-home moms, who are looking for constructive and educational, ways to entertain their toddlers and preschoolers."

Crystal put together an awesome package for me to try out.  The package included...

(1)EcoFriendly Skin Tone Felt Blank Puppet

http://www.etsy.com/listing/51666535/skintonetan-felt-hand-puppet-ready-to
(4)Individually Wrapped Crayons, from my Little Artist Collection
http://www.etsy.com/listing/54880482/set-of-10-little-artist-crayons
(1)D'Nealian Alphabet Dry Erase Board (with dry erase marker)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/54145317/dnealian-alphabet-dry-erase-board

 

 Didn't get a good picture of all 3 items together... so this will have to do :)

 

As I mentioned, I received a hand puppet made from Eco-Friendly felt.  As soon as I took it out of the shipping package my son ran off with it on his hand.  I was some what surprised that he knew what it was for, since I cannot recall playing puppets with him before.  As you can see, the puppet is blank.  This puppet makes a great rainy day (or snow day) activity!  My son is only 2 so he does not have the dexterity that is needed to decorate the puppet, but he enjoyed watching me decorate it and then playing with it.  I think that by the time he is 3, he will be able to decorate it by himself. 

  This is the DNealian Alphabet Dry Erase Board that I mentioned.  Again, having a 2 year old, it is not like my son was going to start using it by himself.  Instead of using the Dry Erase Board to teach him to write, I have been pointing to each letter and saying what it is.  Little Boy Blue is really into letters right now (he says everything is a B or Y), so this is wonderful to him!  I also found that he enjoys it if I write his name on the back of the dry erase board (if you didn't know... my 2 year old's name is "me" lol)!  One night I even used the erase board during a Mami & Papa's giveaway to write SENIOR and take a picture :)

 We also got a set of 4 recycled crayons!  I love the shape of these crayons as the are well suited for a toddlers hands.  I know this is going to sound funny, but I also loved that my son did not feel the need to EAT these crayons.  I have no idea why he eats normal shaped crayons, markers, and chews on colored pencils, but not these... but whatever works works I suppose.  As you can see if the picture to the right, we even had fun stacking them up :)

Can I just mention that I adore the name tags on the crayons.  Since each crayon is a multiple colors, each crayon is not name a color but a name related to the crayons colors.  Mine where named, "grass" (the green... if you didn't figure that out), "sunshine" (oranges and yellows), "sky" (blues and purples), and "dirt" (brown, grey, black).  PreschoolDolls Design has 26 different color combos :) Each crayon disk is equivalent to 4 regular crayons.  Due to the fact that the crayons are melted down, the bottoms of the crayons have some colorless wax.  I went ahead a scrapped this wax off of the crayons so that we could get right to playing with them.  By no means do you have to do this, but now you know.

I found that Little Boy Blue was more satisfied with this set of 4 crayons than he was with a set of 12+ crayons because he could just routate the crayon to get new color.  He also learned that he could get multiple colors by dragging his crayon just right.  I was more satisfied with 4 crayons as well. When Thing 1 decides to throw them across the room because he is done, I only have to track down 4 crayons instead of 16 crayons (and let's face it, I have better things to do)!

I am thinking about getting some of these crayons to hand out to the toddler's that come trick or treating this year.  I do not know about you, but when we took Little Boy Blue trick-or-treating last year, I was thankful when people had options for the little ones (other than candy).  Two houses that we went to last year offered a healthy treat (healthier) like fruit juice gummies or apple chips.  Anyway... just a thought.  PreschoolDoll Designs also is currently has Halloween shaped crayons for sale!

So, are you ready to get your hands on some of these crayons?  You can...

BUY a set of 10 crayons for $7.95 at PreschoolDoll Designs Etsy shop!

or...

WIN a set of 10 crayons here :)  Thank you Crystal!

To enter, you must be our facebook fan, a fan of PreschoolDoll Designs on Facebook, and what you give little ones as a healthy option or alternative to candy for Halloween (or what you normally hand out if you dont).

As always, if you make a purchase from PreschoolDoll Designs during this giveaway, you get 5 extra entries :)  I will draw a winner on Wednesday 10/13

CONGRATS TO JACKIE L. FOR WINNING!