BathWriters By Alex Toys
One morning, my mom and I dropped into the local department store to give the Worm a new playground to destroy experience. In our game of hide and seek with the Worm, we stumbled upon the BathWriters set by Alex Toys. Cool, I thought. Worm is starting to show interest in writing, so we thought it would make for easy cleaning if he had the whole tub to write in, on, and around! For the price, we decided to give it a try.
BathWriters is a bath time writing set with red, blue, yellow and gold liquid markers. It even comes with a sponge to help you clean up the mess your child leaves behind! The liquid markers are essentially liquid soap and can be used to add more suds to the bathtub when your child has been soaking for hours.
There’s not much to expect from bath markers, but BathWriters does not clear the bar. Being well above the 3+ age recommendations, I decided to see how well I could write with these things. First off, the liquid soap markers are twist open. I could do that. Then I tried to write on the wall. The twist off cap closed once I made contact with the bath wall tiles. Ok, something’s wrong here. The liquid soap filled marker needs to make contact with a surface in order to write. Then why would anyone design a writing tool that stops writing when you push on the tip? I couldn’t write with it and I’m 100% sure that my toddler wouldn’t be able to use the set either.
So after playing with the markers for a few minutes longer, I figured out that I could NOT write on the wall like it shows in the picture on the box. I could only write on a horizontal surface…and I wouldn’t even call it writing. I just squeezed the liquid soap out like a squirt bottle.
BathWriters is essentially colored liquid soap packaged in 4 individual marker shaped dispensers. I was foolish enough to purchase these on a whim. The packaging made me believe fantastic things would happen…like they would actually write on the bathtub walls as advertised! Hopefully in our next game of department store hide and seek, we won’t run into these BathWriters again.
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Overall Rating: 1 Worm
Ease of Use: 1 Worm
Performance: 1 Worm
Features: 1 Worm
Durability: 1 Worm
Manliness: 1 Worm
Retail Price: $8.95
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Pros:
Pretty box.
Cons:
Boatload of chemical ingredients that are supposed to make liquid soap. Doesn’t write on vertical surfaces. Liquid just pours out of the tip and doesn’t give one the opportunity to actually write.
Things I would modify:
Redesign the entire product. There was little effort put into the actual design of this product and it shows.
Where to find:
Me vs. Gavin 