I received the below mentioned product in order to complete a review for my Holiday Guide. Any opinions expressed are my own.
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We’re kicking this off today with a new toy to hit the market for the holidays. It’s meant for ages 8-99 according to the box. You may have heard about 3D pens. Maybe even saw youtube videos of some amazing art made with 3D pens. But 3D pens aren’t even everyone’s budget. If you have a budding artist, a teen with a 3D pen on their list, or you’ve been wanting to try it out for yourself maybe you could start with the IDO3Dart pen
We received the I Do 3D Pen 4 pack that came with 4 different color pens, a plastic drawing sheet, a spotlight, and a 3D Guide Map. This packages says it can make up to 20 projects. This would of course depend on how big your projects were and how much ink you use. We started with a smaller project from the 3D Guide Map.
I’ll be honest it wasn’t exactly what we thought it would be. The pens are prefilled with their corresponding color. They don’t seem to be refillable. It uses a special ink rather than the 3D printer filaments. You can put the clear sheet over the 3D Guide Map patterns. Once you draw for a bit you need to use the spotlight to dry the ink. Then we started building up once all the pieces were completed. We connected the pieces by, sort of, sautering the pieces together with the ink and spotlight. This process does take some time.
I Do 3D pens are available in 4 packs, single pens, and a 7 pen deluxe set which is a Toy R’ Us exclusive for $39.99. I Do 3D can also be found at Walmart and Michael’s for the 4 pen set at $19.99-$24.99 per set and Walmart, Target, TRU, Amazon, Michael’s, and Kmart for the single pen set at $7.99-$12.99 each. Visit IDO3Dart.com for more details
This product did not work as quickly an easily as it shows in the commercials but what ever does? This is a project that is going to take some time. Perhaps a few session to get a completed project done depending on the size of the project. For once, I agree with the age recommendation. My 6 year old son tried this and got a bit frustrated with it but my 11 and 13 year old enjoyed it. This would make a great gift for a teen or tween that likes to work with their hands and is imaginative.
