This portable set has everything you need to paint with watercolors, stored neatly in a tin box and velvet bag. One of our editors recently gave several of these sets as gifts to her grandchildren, and she was delighted that the kids from Pre-K to pre-teens were all engaged for hours of painting. The sheer number of colors—including some metallics and some fluorescents—elicited “wow”s, and filling in the chart with a sample of each color was a fun way to begin, and prompted a lots of questions about why certain colors had their names (verdigris, ochre, burnt Sienna, indigo, mauve, etc.). Remember getting a new box of 64 Crayolas (with sharpener!)? The kids' response was in the same register as that thrilling moment.

The set includes:

• 100 vibrant colors
• Water brush pen
• Nylon brush
• Sketching pencil
• Pencil sharpener
• Color chart
• Tray for mixing colors
• Watercolor papers
• Sponge
• Portable tin box
• Velvet travel bag

The paints are washable, acid-free, and nontoxic.