Wikki Stix Artistic Building Toy 24 Piece Rainbow Colors
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This set comes with 24 8 inch long rainbow colored Wikki Stix.
So what are Wikki Stix?
Well first the basic pitch from the creators of this unique and cool toy.
• Unique, patented wax formula and yarn
• Great teaching tool
• Stimulate creativity and imagination
• Safe, non-toxic and endlessly reusable
• Stick to each other and almost any smooth surface with just fingertip pressure
• Great for 3-D activities
• Easy to change and reposition
• Appeal equally to boys and girls
• Ideal for ages 3 and up
• No right or wrong way to play
• Made in USA
Wikki Stix are made of a strand of acrylic, hand-knitting yarn enhanced with a microcrystalline, food-grade, non-toxic wax. There is no latex, nor any peanut or nut oil. The wax is similar to that used in lipsticks and on food products. Wikki Stix provide creative hands-on fun alone or with other materials. They will not pull apart, but cut easily with scissors. Clean and easy to use-no preparation, no mess. Clean up is just a quick wipe with a dry cloth or paper towel. Okay, now what do we say about them? Well, everything above is true and accurate as far as it goes, but it doesn't really give you an idea of what playing with them is all about. Certainly we think the "No right or wrong way to play." is an important statement because there are many different ways to use the Wikki Stix and we like flexible toys and these certainly are flexible, pun intended. But even so there are some real basic categories of play that seem to be most common.
Two dimensional shape making and drawing.
This is a broad group that covers a lot of activity, and basically it involves pressing the Wikki Stix against a flat surface in arrangements to make shapes, letters, etc., to in essence draw with the Wikki Stix as if they were lines of color from a marker or crayon that you could reposition until you got them just right. This is great for youngsters because it allows them to be very creative while also overcoming the limitations of their not yet fully developed motor skills. For that matter it is good for adults who aren't great at drawing as well because you can fiddle around until you get that bunny or kitty cat to a point that it is recognizable to a child, which at least for some of us isn't always easy to do with a one shot no corrections allowed tool like a crayon. In addition to the ability to refine an individual element of a drawing the stick and unstick nature of the Wikki Stix lets you add and remove individual items from a drawing so that a child can create a more elaborate picture over time. they can practice the bunny over and over and then make three of them and then spend time working on a tree that they add, along with a sun, and some hills, birds, etc. With each individual item being learned separately and then combined together into the single masterpiece drawing. Now make sure you have your camera handy once a child is done with a complex picture and get lots of good shots of it because, unlike crayon or markers, drawings done with Wikki Stix can be recycled and drawn over and over again and if you don't take the picture right away the child may go on and change it into something else. And by the way, if you take a great picture of a creation, why not send us a copy and we might add it to the site, with full credit to your child of course.
Three Dimensional Sculptures.
This is when the Wikki Stix are stuck together to form sculptures of some kind that can be held in the hand without adhering them to a background. Sometimes the sculptures are still sort of two-dimensional like a stick figure, but are still free standing, and other times the sculptures are much more three dimensional. For example the Wikki Stix can be twisted together to make thicker strands or attached in loose clusters similar to the way some artists use wire to sculpt with. Another example is layering the Wikki Stix in coils like some artists have done with clay. You could even ball the Wikki Stix up and then stick the balls of color together in a sort of 3D equivalent to the pointillist painting style. There really are a lot of ways to sculpt with the Wikki Stix.
Using Wikki Stix to augment other art.
Another great way to use the Wikki Stix is to use them for borders, shape highlights, etc. on other art, for example a child could draw something with crayon and then make neat curving multiple colored bordering to frame the picture, or even use the Wikki Stix as a sort of adhesive to attach the framed picture to a background of another sheet of paper. And also a child can simply include some Wikki Stix in the larger marker or crayon, or even painted picture they have created of course. And using the Wikki Stix and cut outs from magazines or things printed from the computer and then combining them together in a collage without of course the need to glue the Wikki Stix to the paper, or even using them as the temporary adhesive for the other items.
And many more.
Naturally there are many more ways that Wikki Stix can be used than these basic ways, but that should give you a good idea of the flexibility (there's that fun pun again) of Wikki Stix in general and some specifics on how they can be used.
