Parents have come to expect great things from Crayola. They always offer vibrant, fun, bright, and colorful products; this Marker Maker doesn’t break their impressive winning streak. The package is colorful, bright, appealing, and inviting. This is also a true gender-neutral craft kit that held great appeal for parent testers, especially those with a boy and girl at home. This is a DIY kit that allows you to use your final product to create even more. Although not educational in the traditional sense, it promotes creativity, imagination, originality, inspiration, patience, following directions, and resourcefulness. It can be used independently or with others. It is fun, entertaining, and educational – There is a color guide that explains how many drops of each color ink your child will need to make a particular color. By the time our child testers got the hang of it, they were making unique colors of their own. We all got a kick out of the names of colors that kids came up with – funky names, silly names, names that rhyme with the color, there are no rules, and they loved it that way. The experience is easy to set up, easy to use, and the markers keep their color, and they are durable. Another bonus about these markers is that if the ink starts to run out, just add a couple more drops to the felt inside the pen. The kit comes with everything you need to make 16 markers and a carrying case that keeps all the materials neat and organized. All this for $20 made this kit something our testers were more than happy to recommend this holiday season.