Is the Crayola Washable Kids’ Paint Set with Smock worth buying?

Great product, wrong context — call ahead before you bring paint to someone else’s house. There you have it — seven gifts that are actually worth showing up to a four-year-old’s birthday party with. If I had to pick just one off this list with no other information, I’d go with the magnetic tiles or the stomp rocket depending on whether the family has outdoor space. Both have been proven in the field, multiple times, by kids who had no idea they were being evaluated. My one practical piece of dad advice: at this age, simpler is almost always better. Anything with more than three steps to set up or more than one type of battery is working against you. If you’ve found something that absolutely destroyed it with the four-year-old in your life — something I didn’t mention here — drop it in the comments. My daughter already has opinions about what her friends should get for their upcoming birthdays, and honestly, her track record is decent. Between the two of us, we’ll figure it out.

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