Review: Magic Pad

The magic pad comes in eye-catching packaging and it often in promo commercials for kid’s television. My daughter begged for it when we were in CVS one day and she was being so good that day I couldn’t say no. This would be an easy, mess free way for her to have some fun drawing time.

Positives

Once this was setup and working, it provided about an hour of initial fun. It comes with dry-erase markers that are double sided and had decent ink. You can use the magic pad as a regular dry erase pad if you put a piece of white paper behind it. The best thing in the magic pad is the 30 dry erase cards, activities, games, coloring images, letter tracing and math problems.

Negatives

The magic pad itself is gimmicky. While the glow of the pad itself was entertaining at first, it quickly lost the magic after the first few uses. It has a glowing appearance, but not to the extent shown in the picture. Once the initial “it glows” has worn off, it’s really just a plastic dry erase board that’s not super durable. The dry erase pens are fairly small, making them harder to use if you have larger hands. It requires batteries.

Subject Recommendations

Use the magic pad for art projects, pen control, handwriting practice, and for simple math problems.

Grade Recommendations

This would be good for children up to the fourth grade, especially those who love art.