Crayola Online Fun

Sometime in the past year when we bought Crayola products they included an access code to use the Crayola Story Studio for six months. I decided to activate the account tonight to play around with it and see what I could do (my code was just for the original version – not one of the character or licensed versions also on the site).

Its pretty fun – the main part of the ‘story studio’ is basically a way to make a custom coloring book with your kid as the star. You upload a photo and then its rendered into a cartoon character which you can alter to look more (or less) like your child, then once that’s done you pick one of six stories and add the character to the story. The area I thought was more fun, however, was the section where you could upload a photo and have it turned into a coloring page. I made a few coloring pages:

posing on the porch

cousins at the beach

I ended up having to go over both pages with a black pen in some parts to have more of a defined line, but they turned out pretty cool – I think the kids will love them!

I’d say the program is worth keeping an eye out for, we got the code from a box of crayons, so it wasn’t like it was on one of the more expensive Crayola items – check the packaging before you toss it away!