Great Christmas Gift: Pick and Draw Game {Review & Giveaway}

Introduction: Rich Davis is the talented illustrator who created Pick and Draw. You might recognize his work from the following children's books:  Firefighters to the Rescue (one of Jonathan's favorites!), Scat, Cats!, When Tiny Was Tiny, Tiny's Bath, Tiny Goes to the Library, Tiny the Snow Dog, Tiny Goes Camping, and Tiny on the Farm.

Rich originally created Pick and Draw to be used in his presentations to kids at public libraries and schools. However, when he saw how much the kids enjoyed the game and how engaged they became in the creative process, he decided that Pick and Draw should be available to more than just the people he met at presentations.

What is Pick and Draw? (from the Pick and Draw website)

• Pick and Draw is a fun, one-of-a-kind drawing game that teaches you how to make very creative cartoon faces.

• There are 60,000 different possibilities in the game (a deck of cards).

• The game uses mainly simple shapes everyone already knows how to do thereby giving confidence to those who try.

• It is simple and easy to use providing endless hours of fun and learning. In five minutes or less you will know how to play.

• It can be used by one person or by any group number.

• It also opens up creative thinking and using the imagination.

• This makes “success” possible providing a good kind of confidence to encourage continued learning.

Pick and Draw also:

:: develops decision making skills, 

:: promotes fine motor skills, 

:: encourages creative thinking, 

:: works on comparing and contrasting, 

:: is a great storytelling tool, 

:: is small and easily mobile, and 

:: is an inexpensive gift for families and children of all ages.

Pick and Draw can even be with Sunday School classes and Youth Groups when combined with Rich's 10 Heart Messages.

Review: Rich generously sent us a copy of Pick and Draw to review. I was a little concerned that our kids would be far too young to play the game, but Rich gave me some ideas for using this game with even very young children. So far, we've used the Pick and Draw cards in our preschool workboxes and I've used them in some one-on-one time with Emahry.

To play you simply pick one card from each category: Face, Nose, Eyes, Mouth, and Hair. Then you draw each piece to make a unique cartoon face. Depending on the size and placement of each component the face can look completely different than another face drawn using the same exact cards. Try out a hand of the game online by clicking on "Click here to try it!"

Here's one of Emahry and Jonathan's creations alongside one of mine using the same five cards.

After we make our faces, we've been talking about them, giving them names and telling each other what they like to do. This is great practice for story telling and later story writing. Emahry and Jonathan have been coming up with some very funny stories.

We're even planning on taking Pick and Draw to my parents' house the next time the family gets together for some whole family fun. I know it'll be great!

Pick and Draw may even be going into some family gift baskets this Christmas. It's a great gift for families and children of all ages!

Connect: 

:: Follow the Draw with Rich Blog ~ lots of step-by-step drawing fun

:: Follow Rich's journey in creating his 10th children's book ~ great information for anyone who's curious about the illustrating process

:: Check out Rich's portfolio and services here
:: Pick and Draw is also on Facebook

Buy It: Purchase your own Pick and Draw Game for only $10. While you're at it why not pick up one as a gift.

Win It: We would like to offer one of you your very own Pick and Draw Game from Rich Davis.

To Enter This Giveaway:

Mandatory

1.Check out the Pick and Draw website here, then come back and tell us why you'd like to win this game or who the game would be for. (If you have your kids near by, be sure to click on "Click here to try it!" It's seriously So. Much. Fun.)

Make sure you leave an email address with each entry if it is not posted in your profile. (If we don't have your email address we will have to choose a new winner.)

For additional entries you may do any (or all) of the following. Please leave a separate comment for each entry. If you complete one of the following that is worth more than one entry, please leave the corresponding number of comments so your extra entries will be counted!

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5. Tweet about this giveaway ~ leave the URL to your tweet & include @heart4home & #Giveaway. (1 entry) Feel free to use this tweet: #Win Rich Davis' Pick and Draw Game @heart4home #giveaways Great Gift for Families and Kids of All Ages! http://tinyurl.com/3fc9rto Ends 10/27

The giveaway will end Thursday, October 27th at 11:59pm EST. We will pick the winner through random.org.

We received a copy of this game to review, but the opinions expressed are completely our own.

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