My kids (ages 5 & 3) first tried this at the local library. They instantly fell in love with the activities, and I quickly logged onto Amazon to purchase it. They love to show us the ribbons they earn. It is very simple to use, and they can even use it without help most the time.

My daughter, who just turned 3, is passionate about art so we thought this game would be great for her. Nope! There's no instructions, just a big fuss about an art show - you can't even figure out where the games are, much less what you do when you get there, and when you try out things, bad stuff happens. We clicked on a pad of paper thinking it would give us a fresh page, but it made a marker draw all over my daughter's creation. We clicked on a portfolio thinking it would save her work and it just shot us back to some earlier part of the program. Who wants to play something that erases or defaces your art? The 'make your own invitation' insists that kids do glitter and a border - so much for free creative play. The Chalk Girl game is about making a collage, but the program calls it a mural, which I find a pretty shocking error in a game that's supposed to teach you about art. I haven't yet figured out how to get to the playground drops, so I'm giving it two stars in hopes that that game might turn out okay. Plus, the video with Steve is nicely done. But really, didn't anyone at this company test this out on real kids?

My daughter loves it. She has a lot of fun doing the art projects and it gives her ideas for real art projects, once she is of the computer!
This is a fun game for the little artist.

We got this in a pack with three other games. My daughter, who is four, played it once and hasn't gone back to it. She would much rather play Clifford Learning Activities, which is a much better game, in my opinion. From watching her try to play this and helping her, I can tell you there is much more to do and learn in a game like the Clifford one. I think limiting it to just art is just that, very limiting. Your money would be better spent on a game that not only has art, but also counting, language, logic, problem-solving, etc.

Just took this one out of the box and even with a college education I can't figure out how to make it work!!! My 4 year old little boy clicks around aimlessly trying to make something work, to no avail! Unless I'm totally missing something, there are no real instructions as to what to do to get things going, there's only a big to-do about the art show and portfolio.