| Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio | 
| Brand: Fisher-Price
Category: Toy
List Price: $54.49
Buy New: $44.99
You Save: $9.50 (17%)
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 114
Batteries Included: No
Age: 4 - 7 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 4 x 11 x 20.2
MPN: L1152
Model: L1152
UPC: 027084467512
EAN: 0027084467512
ASIN: B000NW77HO
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Digital arts and crafts studio plugs into PC computers for hours of fun | | • | 85 built-in activities, 256 colors, 75 scene starters, and 300 stampers for creating art projects | | • | Child- and computer-safe; password-protected controls block access to desktop and hard drive files | | • | Includes CD-ROM software and USB cable | | • | Recommended for ages 4 to 9 years old |
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Product Description
The Digital Arts & Crafts Studio makes it easy and safe for kids to create arts and crafts with their home PC and printer. Plug into the USB port and turn it on. Parental controls allow the child to work comfortably at the tablet using the stylus and creativity tools. Password protection helps control access and limits the amount of prints per session. Includes 3 CDs. Children can save their art and print it. 19.6"L x 8.5"W x 3.8"H.
Amazon.com Product Description
Packed with fun-filled activities and tools, the Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio turns your home PC into a kid-friendly, creative station. Designed for boys and girls four to nine years old, this play studio is an easy-to-use and safe digital activity program for you child. A Whole New Level of Fun
Taking arts and crafts to new level, this digital studio provides endless fun and possibilities. With 85 built-in projects, including connect-the-dot games, coloring pages, jumping frogs, flying airplanes, greeting cards, and party hats, Crafts Studio will keep your child entertained in creative play for hours. The program also includes a stylus that can be used as a pencil tool, a crayon, a stamper, and more. 
Transforms your home computer into a digital arts & crafts studio for kids. | 
USB cable connection and one-time CD-ROM installation makes set-up a cinch. | Because kids love making their own decisions, the Digital Arts & Crafts Studio offers 256 colors, 75 scene starters, and 300 stampers, giving your child the tools to design, create, print, and assemble his or her own art projects. You can easily import your own digital pictures as well, allowing your child to create personalized backgrounds, stampers, and coloring pages with them. And when their projects are complete, children can save and print them out to share with friends and to make paper crafts. Easy to Use
Plugging easily into your USB port, the Digital Arts & Crafts Studio takes the place of a keyboard and mouse, and is ready to use again and again after a quick, one-time CD software installation. The durable and child-safe plastic tablet and stylus allow kids to work and play comfortably on their own, while password-protected controls block access to desktop and hard drive files -- so you don't have to worry about your kids getting into your personal files. You can even limit the number of papers printed per session. The Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio requires Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, or Vista; a 750 MHz processor; a USB 1.1 port; and 256 MB of RAM. An internet connection for software updates and a color printer are recommended. Additional software with more arts and crafts projects, fun themes, and familiar characters can be purchased separately. What's in the Box
Digital Arts & Crafts Studio base, CD-ROM software and USB cable.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 62 more reviews...
 Tough to set-up, didn't work for us November 20, 2008
Tracy
My son received this last year for Christmas. He was very excited to get started. I was able to install the software that came with the toy however we were not able to use any of the fun activities. We'd pull an activity up and the screen would multiply over and over and over. The website was no help as it was under construction. We tried calling customer support for this product and the phone would just ring numerous times without anybody to pick up the phone. We tried over a week. So we thought maybe the toy was defective, sent it back. We got a new one from Amazon very quickly and the same thing happened with our replacement. So I figured it must be something with our computer that we were missing. Of course I had no technical support from FP. I tried several different things including help from 3 other computer tech guys in the family. Nobody could figure this out. Before you buy, make sure FP can give you the tech support you may need to set up. Everything listed on the box for computer compatibility we had so I'm not sure why we could not get this to work.
 Great Product November 14, 2008
Michele (Mountain Top, PA)
My 4 year old daughter always wants to do things on the "puter". She got this for her birthday and it is perfect. She loves to draw and create things, so this is perfect. The stylus is a little frustrating for me because it does not work the same as a mouse, but she picked riht up on it. I am amazed with her hand eye coordination - and it keeps getting better. She quickly picked up on how to change from painting to coloring to stamping. I can't believe how well she was able to master it. She loves typing things to learn her letters. I love it.
Great product! November 9, 2008
jblackbehr (Arizona)
My daughter (4) got this as a birthday gift last year. It was easy for her to understand how to work it. As she gets older she is learning more things and is able to discover new parts of the game. I found it very easy to install, the quality of the product is great and very durable; just remember to go to the support website and get your system updates!
Over-priced piece of electronic junk November 6, 2008
M. Limbert (Las Vegas, NV USA)
Basically the program you need to install is a problem. Due to the 'safe' environment it creates it can conflict with your computers firewall, virus protection software. If you have anti-spyware you will not be able to use this program.
So I managed to install it on my laptop and my daughter liked it for a while. Then it just stays at your computer desk taking up a lot of space. So it goes away and you have to unravel everything to set it up. To be honest [..], my daughter has more fun on that or use real pencils and crayons. This is [...] of plastic junk in our house, can't wait for a yard sale.
 Great concept, just need more stable software November 5, 2008
M. Ramey (North Carolina, USA)
First off, my 4-year old twins love this product. They will literally share the unit with each other for hours drawing and designing. They even figured out how to print there pictures and I ended up having to limit the number of prints! Once I showed my kids the controls, they can easily do this without a lot of parent involvement, and it's hard for them to get back to Windows.
The bad side, as some reviews have stated is the software. There ARE updates available to the software, but I still find at times weird quirks about the software that make it rather difficult for my kids to figure out how to start it up. You're forced to run a program constantly on your computer that waits for the unit to be plugged in, then starts up. You don't have the options to add a shortcut to the program and start it up when you want to.
We tried this unit when my kids were 3-years old, and they had problems understanding the concept of pushing the pen into the board. You see, the tip of the pen has a movable plastic piece that must be pushed in, in order to draw something. Younger kids might have problems understanding they need to push this into the board.
I still do like this unit, and it seems pretty durable. It is kind of bulky to store when you aren't using it, but obviously that is a given!
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