Honestly, when you visit the shop tab on the website there is no place to order a single Doodle Roll and there are no stores local to me that carry the Doodle Roll. On the website the Trial Pack which includes one 4″ Doodle Roll and one 6″ Doodle Roll sells for $14.00, which seems rather pricey to me.

I brought the 4″ Doodle Roll to church one Wednesday night for the 3-5 year olds to color on before their class started. The Doodle Roll didn’t go over well with this age group. The children didn’t like sharing the paper and the crayons kept breaking and I had to quickly bring out our regular bucket of name brand crayons to save the project. The 4″ size was also too narrow for the young children to work on.

I gave the 6″ Doodle Roll to the K-2nd grade class. They fared a bit better but again I had to bring in the “good” crayons. This age had less trouble sharing the work space and were able to work together towards a common finished project, a banner for a teacher who had been away for a few weeks. When I asked the class if any of them would like a Doodle Roll of their own to take home, none of the girls raised their hands. When I asked them why they didn’t want one little B said she would rather color in her coloring books and S said she didn’t want to have to share with her brothers.

Unfortunately, the Doodle Roll wasn’t at big hit with the kids ages 3-8 that I tried it with, even if it has won some toy and creativity awards. What do you think? Would your kids like the Doodle Roll? Leave me a comment and let me know.

Disclosure: I received a 4″ and a 6″ Doodle Roll for the purpose of this review. All opinions are 100% mine.

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I have been a member of other kids craft clubs in the past and even though they said they were “all-inclusive” I usually had to provide common household things like glue or toothpicks. One of the first things I noticed when I opened this kit was that it actually included the glue! The kit was neatly packaged in a cellophane bag. The kit included the 11 foam pieces, glue, ribbon, trinity card and step-by-step directions. The kit is available for $4.00 per month plus $3.00 shipping.

I gave the kit to my 13 year old son and he quickly had the project completed. He said it was easy to follow the directions and he was impressed with the fact that the glue actually worked with the foam pieces. (We have had several problems in the past with glue not adhering to craft foam pieces). He also liked that the craft included the card that explained how the three leaves of the shamrock could represent the Trinity. The only problem he had was that the steeple broke off of the church. He was able to glue it in place and you can barely notice that it is broken.

This kit is an average value for what you get. It is all-inclusive and offers a craft and Bible lesson in one.

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