When I was contacted by The Pencil Grip to review their newest product Kwik Stix, I was intrigued. It is not that I was intrigued so much for myself, but I was intrigued for you. You see, I am not one to mind a messy craft or paint splatters on my floor – but I know many, many friends who think I am nuts.
And I have received many a comment, email, and message from you lovely friends looking for crafts that are “not too messy”. Well the Kwik Stix are solid tempera paint – so in a nut shell, they are paints that are not messy!
My Sammy had been describing to me a project he was making at school for Christmas and I thought it sounded so cute that I decided to give it a try at home with Ben. I am not really sure how similar it is to the one Sammy made, but I am totally in love with it!
We used the Kwik Stix for this project and they were indeed NOT messy. They are a solid tempera paint and come in sort of like a glue stick container. You simply rub it on! It reminds me of oil pastels, except without the mess. Once it is on the paper it pretty much stays there. The packaging says it dries in 90 seconds, but ours was never really ‘wet’ just maybe a little damp.
I began by tracing Ben’s two cute little hands with crayon. I tell ya, the older my oldest gets the more I trace my baby’s hands!! Those tiny little hands …
Once they were traced I let Ben go to town colouring them brown. I was hoping the waxy crayons would resist the Kwik Stix and it did a little bit. Next time I would do a thicker line of crayon as it was a little tough to see. The Kwik Stix paint goes on quite thick.
It was really easy for Ben to use these, and as you can see from his hands, really not messy at all. That one speck of blue on his finger was the only dot I could find on him!
Next Ben striped the candy cane red, green, red, green. And then we cut it all out. It was nice being able to cut it pretty much straight away and not needing to let it all dry. I did the cutting for this project, but next time I will have Ben cut out the candy cane – though he won’t be touching those tiny little hands with those sweet little preserved fingers!
Finally we glued on a pom pom nose, a googly eye (which Ben had a heck of a time agreeing to use just one – there was a lot of time looking into a mirror, turning our heads to the side, and counting eyes when in a profile position), and the adorable-hand-antlers.
Voila! Cute and simple … and for my clean house loving friends – mess free!
You can check out Kwik Stix on Amazon and you can visit The Pencil Grip for more information. You can also follow along with them on Pinterest and Facebook.
And you can win!!! The Pencil Grip group is offering a 12 Pack of their Kwik Stix to one of you! To enter this giveaway please leave a comment below. As always, please enter anything at all! “me please”, “I hate messes”, “I’d love to win” – anything at all! Giveaway will end Sunday December 13th. Good luck!
i love no mess crafts!!!!
What a great giveaway. I Have never heard of Kwik Stix. Thanks so much for sharing this product. It is something I will look into for my Family Childcare.
me please! 🙂
My daughter would love to win! She is 4 and loves to paint.
How neat!
My 4 kids would love those!
These are awesome!
I would love to win for my daughter.
I love that these are not messy, my grandson would love them.
My daughter would have a blast with these!
The less mess involved….the happier I am about the project. Glitter is my enemy.
I’d like to use Kwik Stix for art projects with our grandchild.
I would love to win for my daughter
I would love to win this for my son. I don’t like messes so these would be really cool.
I’d love to win!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I need these! My kids love coloring and painting and this would be perfect for the younger ones
my son would have so much fun with these
My Granddaughter loves to paint but it always ends up a mess. This looks a lot more controlled and no clean up.
I would love these for my son!
We would love this as a stocking stuffer from “Santa” 😀
These are adorable would love to win these!:)
these would be perfect for my little ones! How fun!
We love to paint!
Love no mess crafts!
I’d love to give these to my very creative son!
This looks great!
My kids would enjoy using these.
My kids would love this! Thanks for the chance…
melissamiller2002@yahoo.com
This is a cool giveaway….great for the kiddies to express their creativity.
My daughter would love these! 🙂 And I’d love not to have a huge cleanup!
I’d love to win because I hate messes! But my kids love to make them!
This would be great!
How fun…my three children would have a blast sharing this since it is so unique.
Would love to win these for my kiddies! Thanks for the chance to win. <—–pick me please
These would be great in our preschool classroom!
My kids would love these 🙂
It was really hard, but we are trying to eliminate new electronics, and have an unplugged Christmas! This would just be perfect for my two youngest.
My kids would have so much fun with these!
Messy is great, but at times I do need a project with less dry time and quicker clean up! I am an early childhood teacher with 10 littles at a time:)
Cool giveaway, my girls and I love doing crafts!
I would love these for my kids!
I hate messes, too.
If I won this I would donate this to my daughters pre-k class.
This seems like a lovely gift
This would make a super nice gift for my niece.
I would love to win these to add to the kids stocking this year!
Oh my gosh I would love to win this!! I have three very messy Grandkids! Thank you for the chance!
I’m going on a long road trip soon and this would be perfect for my 3-year old!
These would be perfect for my messy nephews to use. Trust me those boys need more items like this.
I hate having messes to clean!!
No mess?? Sign me on! 😉
What a wonderful art supply! Fun for creativity — and no messes!
This would be perfect for my 3 year old!
These would be awesome for my daughter.
I would love to win:)
This would make a great stocking stuffer!
These look really easy and fun to use. Thank you for the chance,
My daughter would have a blast creating beautiful art with these! 🙂
My twins would love these
Congratulations Sharon – you won! I will send an email with details on claiming your Kwik Stix. Thank you for playing!
Awesome giveaway! I would love to win this super cool Kwik Stix pack for my kid, too!
Thank You for the chance
My boys would love this!!
I would love this for my nephew! we always make a mess here so I would love anything to help keep this place mess free and still fun!
What a cute craft idea! I keep hearing about these Kwik Stix – I’d love to try them!
This s a great prize! Thank you!
We are a super crafty family!! Would love to win this!!
These would be great in my classroom!
I would love to win because I hate messes!
I’d love to win. Thank you for the chance.
I have never heard of these before. These would be great for the crafting I do with the grandkids on the weekends.
me please!
Contest closed! Congratulations Sharon, and thank you all for playing!
“I’d love to win”
My daughter loves any sort of crafting thing.
My daughter loves doing art projects she would love this so much!
Thank you for the chance at a great giveaway!
andysavi.mom@gmail.com
I would love to win these so that we could try them and hopefully convince the principle that we need more of them in our classroom. The idea is amazing!!