Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A six year old and eight year old girl used this mat the other day and loved it. They are pretty artistic and energetic and quickly figured out that water made the colors appear through the mat. So after exhausting the "doodling" and "stenciling" and "stamping" (with the tiny little stamps, which I kind of thought were a waste and were actually pretty quickly ignored by the kids) they decided to just get the entire mat wet and see what happened. What happened was that they had a large rainbow, but, being kids, they didn't understand that they would have to wait for the mat to dry before they could use it again. And since they had pretty much soaked it thoroughly, they had a reeeeeealllllly long wait. Which they did not like. So there was a life lesson on actions and consquences, which was pretty cool for me, not so much for them, so I might caution others to keep an eye on the "let's soak the whole mat" thing. Otherwise, they loved it.