Candy Maxwell manufactures and markets Candy’s Colorland products from her Cascade home. The products are made of lightweight plastic, which can be colored on and then erased.
The products are manufactured using laser-cutters and silk-screen machines.
All of the playhouses are different, but they also can be hooked together.
“Kids can add on to it and keep adding on,” Maxwell said. “They can build it as big as they want.” They can build a castle, cottage, lemonade stand or puppet stage.
“It’s their imagination,” she said. “There is no end.”
The castle playhouse looks like a two-story castle and offers mazes on all sides. She also has other playhouse styles and even designed a work station where children can read or do homework. Playhouses come with simple furniture, valances with curtain rods, flower boxes, shelves, closets and hangers — “Whatever they want.”
Best of all, her playhouses are designed to be colored on multiple times.
“Crayons, markers, watercolors—it just wipes right off,” she said. “They can color it a thousand times over again.”
For those who want to design the art on their own playhouses, Maxwell sells blank, pre-cut walls. “It’s a big open canvas for those who want to leave a legacy of art for their children,” she said.
Photo by Lynn Adams.
jaeda on August 26th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
yes, it’s somewhat educational games for them.
cassy on August 26th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
very nice…children are not only playing but can learn something with it.