kept the water pens, skipped the mess
It’s already on the table for round two. The water pens don’t leak at the barrel seam, which I noticed before anything else, and the foam discs stay flat instead of curling up. Colors show up slowly, then get brighter, so my kid didn’t flood the surface trying to force it. Box latch was a bit stiff first open, but the pieces inside felt organized, not tossed in.







