Color Wonder? Color Scary!

I was very eager to jump on the Color Wonder and Go Paint band wagon. I love to let the kids paint, but we frequently have quarters that have cheap beige carpet, which means it is impossible to clean. The kids have not been huge fans, mainly I think because it takes a second for the color to show up on the paper after you paint, color, or stamp. The best is by far the Color Wonder paint that comes inside the paint brush. I think the worst overall is the finger paint because it inevitably gets under their fingernails and has a very odd consistency, particularly smeared on the carpet.

One thing that concerns me about these products is the ability to melt plastic. A couple of years ago one of my boys left a marker on something plastic and it left an indentation in the plastic. More recently I purchased the Go Paint Stampers for an airplane trip. Of course the caps that came with the stamps were lost very quickly. I left one in a bag sitting on top of a plastic fork. Lo and behold, the ink in the stamper melted part of the plastic prongs on the fork.

I don't know about you, but I have serious questions as to how these products qualify as non-toxic if the ink can melt plastic. That is why I will no longer purchase these products.