Tomy Thomas & Friends Aqua Draw

Thomas and Friends Aquadraw Mini Mats Aquadraw mini mats are a fantastic product that have been around for a short while and are available in many different character formats. I bought the Thomas the Tank engine ones for Jack but I have seen them in Bob the Builder, Fifi The Flowerpot Girl and Barbie. For these particular ones I paid just less than six pounds at £5.98 pence. I have seen them for a little bit more and also a little bit less but in Woolworth's this is the set price. The Aquadraw mini mats are basically pieces of shiny paper about 6 inches squared that are white in colour (but you can make out the picture ...  Read the complete review

My eldest son was bought some of the Thomas the Tank Engine mini mats by a relative last Easter instead of an egg, he was 2 at the time. The pack comes with four mini mats and one special pen that you fill with water. When we first opened the pack I had not seen these anywhere else and thought they were a great idea. My little boy wanted to try them out straight away, so we filled the pen with water and sent him on his way! We found that the nib of the pen was quite small, and for a child of 2 it did not reveal enough of the picture quickly enough and really frustrated him. We decided he would take all day to get just one picture done and his ...  Read the complete review

After buying the large aqua draw mat and being very impressed with it i brought my youngest daughter the bob the builder mini aqua draw from asda for £6 As i said in my last review we loved the large aqua draw mat but i am not impressed with the aqua draw mini set we brought. The mini set is made of a tough paper type material and although it cannot be ripped it folds and creases very easily, i expected it to be material like the large mat so this was my first dissapointment. My second disapointment was that although you get 4 pieces in this set they are all pictures of bob the builder and friends that you have to colour in using the ...  Read the complete review

When my son was younger he had a nasty habit of drawing on the walls and settee with pens and crayons. Most children do it at some point and gradually stop it after a while, once they realise that they have to draw on paper and colour the pretty pictures on their colouring books not redecorate your living room and settee for you. Maybe the little one was trying to tell me that he didn't like the décor in the house or maybe he was practicing interior design. Either way the drawing on the walls had to stop and it had to stop fast because I was getting sick of touching up the paint in the living room to hide his little scribbled marks. The little boy's a big ...  Read the complete review

Having read several good reviews of these mini-mats on opinion sites and having a son who simply loves to "draw draw" (his words, not mine!) I thought that the Thomas & Friends Aquadraw mini-mats would be a perfect stocking filler this Christmas. The concept of Aquadraw is simple - a water-filled pen is used to draw on special paper to reveal hidden pictures or your own creative artwork depending on the set obtained. Creative mats only seem to be available in large sizes and with a large price tag to boot. As I was still a little unsure as to whether they would be a success or not and, given that my son is, at least at the moment, good with ...  Read the complete review