by Butterfly-Wings

Created on: July 26, 2008   Last Updated: July 28, 2008

My little boy loves Thomas the Tank Engine; he has just turned five and still draws on the walls and settee. So all pens, pencils, crayons and paints are banned from the house in case my little budding interior designer gets a hold of one of them and draws all over the house again. Most children go usually stop drawing on the walls and settees when they reach the ago of two or three, but Josh still continues to do it despite the numerous amounts of other drawing related toys he has.

I caught him about to draw on the wall three weeks ago and asked him why he was always doing it and his reply was "Mummy you're supposed to draw on paper, there's loads of paper on the wall that's not been drawn on yet!" Kids say the funniest things at times. I tried my hardest to keep my laugh in and explain to him that drawing on the walls was a no-no; it was a bad thing to do. He must really like drawing and this is the reason he draws on the walls, so we buy him the Aquadraw mats and the Lumisketcher style toys, at least that way the walls are safe. A few months before Christmas I spotted a Thomas and Percy Motorised Megasketcher in Woolworths and bought it for him mainly because I knew he loved Thomas The Tank and I wanted my walls to remain intact.

Megasketcher looks fairly similar to an Etch-A-Sketch except it is a different colour and has a few accessories added onto it. The Megasketcher is bright blue and red and is meant to symbolise the colours on Thomas The Tank Engine, on the top of it there is a small handle so as your child can carry it around easily. The Megasketcher has a large clear screen, which is used to draw on funnily enough. There is a special pen attached to the bottom of the screen with a piece of string which is used to draw onto the Megasketcher with. When you draw on the Megasketcher using the pen you only have to brush the pen across the clear screen very lightly in order to see the picture you are drawing ( the picture will be shown in a dark grey colour).

When your child has finished drawing a picture on the Megasketcher all they have to do is pull down Harold he Helicopter (white cloud with a picture of a helicopter inside it located on the right hand side of the Megasketcher) and the page will be cleared ready to be drawing on again instantly. The Megasketcher is filled with small magnetic particles which are drawn to the top of the screen when your child draws on it using the pen. This is because the nib of the pen is metallic and attracts the small

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