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OOZ & OZ Morph-O-Scopes are innovative and engaging art kits inspired by an ingenious 16th Century Chinese mirror device called an anamorphoscope.

Do your kids love fun house mirrors on playgrounds and at carnivals? These art projects work the same way, but in reverse. Kids curl a paper mirror and position it on a page. When they color distorted shapes on the page, the picture comes into focus, reflected in the right proportions and a clear image. Sound too hard? Not in the slightest - our four-year-old testers got it right away. Older children marveled over how it worked andmoved quickly from the basic coloring pages to the more challenging morphed project pages.

Connecting dots and lines, creating their own morph picture, navigating morphed mazes, decoding slant art, and more activities give kids artistic excitement combined with optical illusion play to enhance spatial intelligence and fine motor skills. Each kit contains 32 coloring pages with activities based on one theme, two sheets of reflective Mylar (the mirror decoders), and a set of crayons.

In short, for inquisitive kids, this beats the pants off plain old coloring. We'll be stocking an Ooz & Oz Morph-O-scopes kit in our rainy day activity arsenal for years to come.

The original Morph-O-Scopes Circus Kit has earned 19 national toy awards.