Product Description

Get your creative juices flowing with the PixOs Starter Set. It comes with a four-color chamber pen, spray bottle, and two trays for six amazing designs. No batteries needed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #635 in Toys & Games
• Brand: PixOs
• Model: 6011345
• Released on: 2008-10-01
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 7.50" w x 1.38" l, .55 pounds

Features

• Complete kit featuring all 3- 2D trays, 4 chamber pen
• With a special 4 colour chamber pen, spray bottle, 2 trays and 6 designs, the PixOs Starter Pack gives you everything you need to start making amazing creations
• Kids will love the way they can make their own stuff
• It's simple and clean and tons of fun
• 500 PixOs; 1 Four Chamber Pen; 3 Double Sided Templates; 2 Design Trays; 2 Stands; 1 Large Sprayer; 2 Instruction booklets (1 for regular; 1 for 3D)

From the Manufacturer
Get your creative juices flowing with the PixOs Starter Set. It comes with a four-color chamber pen, spray bottle, and two trays for six amazing designs. No batteries needed.

Customer Reviews

My Daughter Loves It
My five year old begged for this for her birthday. After reading all the bad reviews of the deluxe set I was reluctant, but it ended up being great. True, the pen is worthless--we just used our fingers (except the sticky retrieval eraser thing), but it's good for developing motor skills. It requires adult help to teach how, but now she can do it herself and loves it. They worked great. I read that they fall apart, so I just told her to handle them gently so they won't break and they have all stayed together.

She loves it and thinks it's super fun. It works perfectly if you just follow these tips:

1. Keep everything dry as you're working with it. Spray it away from the rest of the beads. Make sure your hands are dry.
2. Use A LOT of water to spray them and let them dry for day.
3. Don't expect your child to do it alone right away. Help teach them first.
4. Tell your child to handle them gently after they are dry, they aren't super durable.

Terrible Product
We received this item as a gift for my daughter's 5th birthday. The pen dispenser does not work properly. It releases more than one ball at a time and you can not get them to stay in the place you attempted to put it. She and I both tried, but were unsuccessful. We were unable to create their designs because the balls would not dispence into the correct places. Also, there were not directions on how much and what type of liquid to use to keep the "finished product" together. I used water in the squirt bottle provided, but the balls never did gel together. Also, the pen only held a few different colors, not all the colors that come with this starter set. You would have to empty and refil endless times to get their designs to work. Bottom line... don't waste your money on this useless product. It does not work and is not fun!

Fun but Forget the Pen
My kids (and I) enjoy making Pixos, but we don't use the pen. We found it too hard to dispense the beads. Also, we let the creations dry for longer than ten minutes, otherwise they came apart and everyone got frustrated after all the time painstakingly placing the beads by hand. You don't need the expensive machine which is really nothing more than an elaborate way to hold a pen - which doesn't work very well in the first place. It says on the package ages 4 and up, but I can't imagine a four or five year old being able to do this with precision.