{"title":"Wood Paint Kits","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe animal is a window, not a figure\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach kit is a stack of laser-cut wooden layers rather than a single flat shape. Assembled, the layers sit at different depths – building up to about two centimetres where they all overlap – and the animal's silhouette frames a landscape behind it: forest and mountains inside the wolf, a savannah at dusk inside the elephant, a beach with palms inside the turtle's shell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the whole idea. You are not colouring in an outline. You are painting a scene that has depth, in a frame shaped like the animal that belongs there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat comes in the box\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive or six wooden layers depending on the design, six pots of paint, a brush and a glue stick. Nothing else is needed, and there is nothing to buy separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSix colours may sound few. They are black, white, red, yellow, blue and green, which is a primary set plus the two that let you mix everything else. Green is included because you will use a lot of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePaint first, then build\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach layer is painted flat on the table, and the stack is glued together only when everything is dry – that is what the box means by \"paint every layer\". Once assembled, the windows narrow layer by layer, and the deepest parts of the scene are out of any brush's reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo habits make it work: keep paint off the faces where the layers touch, so the glue stick grips bare wood, and save a little of each colour for touching up the outer edges after assembly. The layers are numbered, so the build order is never in doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe box rates the whole project at about 40 minutes. The gluing takes a fraction of that; the painting is the part worth stretching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBeing honest about the photographs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painted examples in our photographs were done by an artist. A seven-year-old's version will not look like that, and it is not supposed to. What the kit provides is a shaped surface with built-in depth, which flatters almost any paint job, because the shadows between layers do half the work regardless of what is painted on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe finer details – birds, the sun, branches – are engraved into the wood by the laser, so the drawing is already there. What you add is the colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere they end up\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stand rather than hang. The base is cut wide enough to keep each piece upright on a shelf – even the butterfly, which stands on the lower edge of its wings – and at 13 to 18 cm across they take up about as much space as a paperback lying down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecommended from 7. The layers are large enough to handle, the glue is a stick rather than a liquid, and the paint washes off skin and out of clothes while it is still wet – dried acrylic holds on, so roll up sleeves.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-stegosaure","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Stegosaur","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA jungle behind the plates\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stegosaur stands in profile, and the back plates are cut in stepped layers, so they stand clear of each other with shadow between them. Behind the animal the layers open onto its world: a pond with a long-necked sauropod standing in it, a triceratops on the rocks, a pterosaur overhead, palms and broad leaves against the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives a child three more dinosaurs to find after the first one, and three more things to decide a colour for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the depth comes from\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive layers, glued in sequence. The jungle sits furthest back, the pond and the animals in the middle, the plates and the head at the front, and the shadows between the layers do most of the work of making the scene read as three-dimensional. Where all five layers overlap, the piece builds up to about two centimetres thick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 18 × 11 cm this is one of the two widest kits in the range, alongside the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-coloring-kit-lion\"\u003elion\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBefore you start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaint each layer flat first – that is what the box means by \"paint every layer\": once the stack is glued, the pond and the jungle sit behind windows a brush cannot properly reach. Keep paint off the faces where the layers meet, so the glue stick grips bare wood, and touch up the edges at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix colours are supplied: black, white, red, yellow, blue and green. A jungle uses most of the green, so mix rather than spend it early.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe other dinosaur in this range is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-coloring-kit-t-rex\"\u003eT-rex\u003c\/a\u003e – the upright one, with the volcano.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690196611,"sku":"CWP01","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-Stegosaurus.jpg?v=1780866680"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-elephant","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Elephant","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA savannah at dusk, with a sun you can't miss\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe elephant stands with its trunk raised, and behind the trunk hangs the scene's centerpiece: a huge low sun with birds crossing it. Under the dark evening sky, acacia trees line the horizon – a giraffe stands among them, and an elephant family shelters in the shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the range's richest game of find-the-animal: a giraffe, elephants inside the elephant, and the birds against the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe dark sky changes the approach\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost kits in this range have a light sky. This one is dark, and that reverses the usual order on the sky layer: lay the deep blue ground first and put everything lighter over it, rather than the other way round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlue and black are the two colours this design will use most. Mix them rather than using black neat, which flattens the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAssembly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix layers, glued in order – paint them flat first, since the sun and the horizon animals sit at the back of the stack where no brush reaches after gluing. The raised trunk arrives at the front and is the piece most likely to be knocked while the rest dries, so give it space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe other safari kit is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-coloring-kit-lion\"\u003elion\u003c\/a\u003e – the same country by daylight, at full stride.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690229379,"sku":"CWP10","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-Elephant.jpg?v=1780866681"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-t-rex","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit T-rex","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA volcano inside the dinosaur\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe T-rex is shown mid-stride with the jaws open, and the landscape framed inside it is the one the animal ruled: a volcano erupting at the back, mountain ridges beside it, pterosaurs crossing a storm-dark sky, and small dinosaurs on the plain below – there is even a tiny stegosaurus grazing on the grass ledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix layers deep, it is the busiest scene in the dinosaur pair, and the small animals are the part children go looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe upright one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 13 × 14 cm this is the only kit in the range taller than it is wide. That changes how it stands: it takes up less shelf width than the others and sits comfortably beside books. Six layers of 4 mm plywood, a good two centimetres deep where they all overlap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePainting the volcano\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed and yellow are the two colours this design will exhaust first, since the eruption and the sky both want them. Mix orange rather than laying red beside yellow, and keep the black for the storm clouds rather than outlining everything with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaint each layer flat before gluing – the sky and the volcano sit at the back of the stack, out of a brush's reach once assembled. The layers are numbered, so the order is never in doubt, and the glue is a stick rather than a liquid, so it sets in minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe other dinosaur in this range is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-coloring-kit-stegosaur\"\u003estegosaur\u003c\/a\u003e – wider, calmer, with a pond instead of a volcano.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690360451,"sku":"CWP11","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-T-rex.jpg?v=1780866685"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-papillon","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Butterfly","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA garden inside the wings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe butterfly is shown open, both wings flat, and the scene inside them is not a landscape but a garden: leaves cut through the layers, flowers as separate small pieces that stand raised above the surface – and, hiding among them, dragonflies and a snail in each lower corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the only symmetrical design in the range, and the only one where the two halves have to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the symmetry is the challenge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other kit here can be painted freely, because there is nothing to compare a mistake against. This one has a mirror image built in, and a flower painted red on the left wing will look wrong in yellow on the right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWork both wings in parallel, one colour at a time across the pair, rather than finishing one side and then starting the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAssembly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive layers plus the loose flowers, glued in order – and painted flat first, which matters more here than anywhere: the raised florets are far easier to colour before they are fixed in place. The body sits at the front as a raised spine down the centre, and painting it a single strong colour is what holds the two wings together visually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 16 × 11 cm the finished piece stands upright on the lower edge of the wings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690393219,"sku":"CWP02","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-Butterfly.jpg?v=1780866686"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-loup","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Wolf","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe wolf howls at the moon inside itself\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wolf stands with its muzzle raised, and the design puts the full moon exactly where it is howling – inside its own silhouette, near the tip of the muzzle. Below the moon the layers build the rest of the night: a mountain, red ridges in front of it, pines scattered down into a meadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe design reads as a wolf from a distance and as a landscape from close up, which is the trick the whole range is built on, and the wolf does it best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe layers do the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix layers, glued in order, with the fur cut as feathered edges around the whole outline. Because the pines and the moon are cut as shapes rather than drawn, they hold their form regardless of how carefully they are painted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes this a forgiving kit. A rough paint job still produces recognisable pines and a recognisable moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eColour\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreen and blue carry this one, with white for the snow dots and the ridge tops. The wolf's own body can be left as bare wood, painted grey, or painted into the landscape entirely – the last is what our example shows, and it is the harder choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaint the layers flat first, then glue: the moon and the mountain sit deep in the stack. Keep paint off the mating faces so the glue stick grips.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690425987,"sku":"CWP03","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-Wolf.jpg?v=1780866687"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-ours","title":"3D wooden kit to paint Bear","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA mountain sunset inside a walking bear\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe bear is shown in profile, walking, and the scene framed inside it runs from a meadow at the feet through a pine forest and a lake to mountain ridges lit by a low sun along the animal's back – with a line of geese crossing above the ridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ridges are the feature. They are cut as their own layer with a jagged upper edge, so they catch the strongest colour in the piece and sit clear of everything behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe layer that decides the whole piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive layers, glued in sequence, and the depth between them is what makes the forest read as being behind the meadow rather than beside it – about two centimetres of it at the deepest point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lake sits as a flat band across the middle. It is the largest uninterrupted surface in the range, and the easiest place to get a good result with one well-chosen colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePainting the sunset\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed and yellow are what the ridges need. Mix orange rather than laying one colour over the other, and keep the blue for the lake rather than spending it on sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBare wood is a usable colour here in its own right. Left unpainted, the rock faces read as pale stone, which saves paint for the ridges where it counts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBefore you start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaint each layer flat first, then glue – the lake and the ridges sit behind the forest layer, where a brush cannot reach once the stack is assembled. Keep paint off the faces where the layers meet, and touch up the joins at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690458755,"sku":"CWP04","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-Bear.jpg?v=1780866689"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-lion","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Lion","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA savannah in full stride\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lion is cut mid-leap – body at full stretch, front paws reaching – and inside it the layers hold an entire savannah on the move: giraffes and antelope along the horizon, acacia trees, candelabra plants, and a sun over the mountain at the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mane is a separate layer standing proud of the head, so it casts a real shadow onto the face rather than being drawn onto it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe widest in the range\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 18 × 11 cm it shares the widest format with the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-coloring-kit-stegosaur\"\u003estegosaur\u003c\/a\u003e, and the low horizontal shape suits a mantelpiece or a wide shelf better than a bookcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive layers, glued in sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eYellow is the colour to plan around\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lion needs more yellow than any other design here, and yellow is also what the dry landscape inside wants. Mix it with white for the body and with red for the rocks rather than using it neat throughout, or the pot will run out before the mane is done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaint the layers flat before gluing – the herd on the horizon sits deep in the stack, and the mane layer is the one piece that truly cannot be painted once it is glued down over the head. Touch up edges after assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe other safari kit is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-coloring-kit-elephant\"\u003eelephant\u003c\/a\u003e – same country, at sunset, with the herd's roles reversed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690491523,"sku":"CWP05","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Lion1.jpg?v=1780866690"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-cheval","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Horse","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA moon over red mountains\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe horse is shown trotting, head bowed, and the window inside it rises from a green valley floor through layered red ridges – cut like canyon rock – to a moon in the sky at the top of the neck. The mane and tail are cut as long flowing strands around the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe landscape runs higher into the animal than in any other kit here: the scene climbs the neck almost to the ears, so the frame around it narrows to a ribbon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mane. It is made of long curved sections that meet at shallow angles, and a brush loaded too heavily will bridge the gaps between them and lose the separation the layers were cut to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUse less paint than feels right, and work along the curves rather than across them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAssembly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix layers, glued in sequence – painted flat first, as with the whole range, since the moon and the far ridges sit at the back of the stack. At 16 × 13 cm the piece stands well without leaning, since the four legs give it a wide base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690524291,"sku":"CWP06","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Horse-1.jpg?v=1780866691"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-cerf","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Deer","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAntlers that rise out of the frame\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stag stands facing left, and the antlers are cut as the topmost layer, projecting above the line of the landscape behind. They are the most delicate-looking part of any kit in this range and the reason this one reads as the most elegant of the ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside the body sits a forest – conifers, a treeline, an eagle in the sky – and standing in the meadow at the centre, a second stag. The deer carries its own kind inside it, which is the detail people notice last and remember first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe one that is square\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 13 × 13 cm this is the only kit with equal height and width, which makes it the easiest to place – it sits comfortably on a narrow shelf where a wider design overhangs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix layers, glued in order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePainting the antlers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeave them until last. They are the thinnest sections in the piece and the easiest to knock while working on the body, and because they sit at the front they will pick up any stray colour from the layers behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBare wood works well for them. The grain reads as texture at that scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs with the whole range: paint the layers flat first, then glue. The inner stag and the treeline sit deep in the stack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690557059,"sku":"CWP07","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Creatifwood-Deer.jpg?v=1780866693"},{"product_id":"kit-en-bois-3d-a-peindre-tortue","title":"3D Wooden coloring kit Turtle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA holiday inside a shell\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe turtle is shown from the side, and the shell frames a beach you would book: palms leaning over the sand with a hammock slung between them, a little beach hut, a deck chair under a parasol, and a huge low sun behind it all. The shell rim is cut as its own layer, so the scene sits in a domed frame rather than a flat one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other kit here frames the animal's world. This one frames a vacation, and the tiny furniture is what children hunt for first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe lowest profile of the ten\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 16 × 10 cm this is the flattest format here, which suits a windowsill or the edge of a desk where a taller piece would be in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix layers, glued in sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePainting a sunset\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sky is the whole effect on this one, and it needs blending rather than flat colour: yellow at the horizon working up through orange into blue. Work while the paint is still wet, and accept that the first attempt will be streaky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaint the layers flat before gluing – the sun and the hut sit at the back of the stack. 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