This is one of those "why didn’t I think of this?" products. Seriously, it’s a sure-to-please gift for kids and a no brainer for anyone shopping for a youngster who likes to color and / or make forts. (Which they all do, right?)
The Color Me House is an easy-to-assemble cardboard house -- there’s also a rocket model available -- that kids can decorate with any medium that mom and dad agree to. There are no sharp corners and it has doors and windows that open and close.
The house is 35 inches long by 27.5 inches wide by 48 inches high. The rocket is 65 inches high by 51 inches wide by 32 inches across. Basically, it fits two or three kids, depending on their size.
We set up our Color Me House on Thanksgiving Day, and the kids were so enthralled by it that I got a couple of hours to prepare the big meal. Over the weekend, they spent hours playing in this thing. I even served them lunch inside of it and later let them watch a DVD inside the playhouse on the portable player we usually save for long car trips.
Plus, this product is made from 100 percent recycled cardboard and won numerous "green toy" awards.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
