Enchanted Water Coloring Placemats

That mushroom stays white until someone with a water pen decides otherwise. Fill the pen with water, color over a blank patch and the picture answers back: the cap goes deep purple, a ballerina’s tutu turns peach, a treetop comes up teal.

Two double-sided mats give your kid four scenes to bring around. There’s a pink castle with swans on the pond, a stage full of ballerinas with mice dancing at their feet, a fairy floating under an umbrella, and a fox and rabbit among towering mushrooms. With two pens in the set, nobody has to wait for a turn at the swans.

Water is the only thing that goes in the pen. As the mats dry, they fade back to white, and the whole cast is ready to make its entrance again, over and over.