I received product to facilitate this review. Opinions expressed are my own.
It’s finally that time of year where we can get outside and play! Charlie wants to do a craft every day and the Pain-n-Fly Glider is perfect.
The really awesome part about the Paint-n-Fly glider is that kids can put it together, paint it, fly it, peel the paint off, then REPAINT it however they’d like! With kids, this is a great idea because we all know how quickly they can change their mind about something.
I put this together for Charlie because I wasn’t sure how easy it would be for him. I don’t think he would’ve been able to do it himself, because where you push the middle through, you have to push hard (you don’t want it to fall apart, so it is tight). I know I was rather impressed from the get-go of the quality and sturdiness of the glider. We’ve all seen those little cheap ones, and this is not one of them.
The kit includes the glider to put together, paint, a paint brush, and paint tray. We painted and waited about 15 minutes before flying. The instructions say to wait 24 hours for paint to dry, but we didn’t cover the entire plane and it was drying much faster.
I was a little scared about how well it would stand up to a toddler crashing it into the sidewalk and parking lot, but I’m excited to say, it did awesome! No dents or scrapes. It actually bounced when it hit the sidewalk on the nose. We have not tried to take the paint off, but it seems easy enough to do. The instructions say to soak the glider in water for 2 hours then the paint peels right off. I’m sure we’ll be doing this soon enough so Charlie can re-“decorate” his plane.
Charlie hasn’t gotten the hang of flying it yet, but when Daddy flies it, it goes pretty well!
These gliders are made for ages 3+ and will be a great activity for parents to do with children also. You can buy them individually or as a pack (think playdates and birthday parties)! Thanks to Atomik RC for providing a giveaway! One Mom’s Messy Miracles reader will win a glider of their own!
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My two would have a BLAST with that. They would love to be able to decorate it they way they wanted to! Super cool!
That looks too fun! I bet my boys would love to paint their own!
Those are really cool. My boys love doing the gliders!
That’s really cool. My girls like painting and have the best time making paper airplanes, so I know they would like this!
What a cool craft! My daughters would love painting airplanes and fly them outside.
I would give this to my son to make! He loves making things and personalizing them so this would be really fun for him!
Love this DIY project!
What a fun project! My kids love making paper airplanes, so they’d be all over this!
I would probably use spray paint on some of my glider. We had a race during the summer with the ones we had. They were much smaller than these ones.
I don’t know if the spray paint would come off though. That’s one of the awesome parts of these gliders: you can peel the paint off and repaint them!
These look like so much fun. And I love that they’re way more durable than paper airplanes!
What a lot of fun! I bet my boys would love this!
Now this is totally cool! My kids would have a blast and a half with that!
That is very cool! I think my guys would have a ball with this. We have a large yard, so they love to fly planes anyway!
So much fun! I know a few kids that would love this!
This is so cool! My daughter would love this. She is into airplanes recently.
My son loves these kinds of projects! What a fun day!
how fun! I’ll bet it will go far with these spring winds, too.
This is just the kind of thing my son would love. This is a fun giveaway!
My son would love this! It is great for daddy ad son bonding time too
I love gliders! There’s something about the way they sail that makes me happy. It’s so fun that you can repaint this too.
This is the sort of thing my son loved to do when he was younger. Now he just builds really big things. 🙂
How nea! Love that you can change the paint whenever you like!
That’s a cool toy! You could paint it different colors to suit the mood or even the holidays. – Jenn @ The Rebel Chick
This is awesome. My son is always wanting to paint toys so this is perfect.
Awesome art work! I love all of the colors.
My daughter loves toy airplanes! She is always asking her grandpa to make her new ones when she loses them in the bushes or sometimes our living room chandelier! I love that you can personalize this with different color and designs.
Very cool! My son would love this!
That looks like a lot of fun. I love that it also encourages them to be creative. Great review.
This looks like a blast! <3 that you color it!
These look like so much fun! I love that you can paint it more than once!
This looks like such a fun product for kids of all ages! It’s great that it can be redesigned so easily.
That is so neat that you can “re-paint” it! So cute!
My girls would love to have that glider. They want to paint or color everything.
That’s awesome that you can paint it again! I used to love these kinds of things when I was little.
That looks like lots of fun. My kids love crafts like this and then being able to send it off into flight would keep them occupied for lots of time!
This looks like so much fun! My son loves crafts so this would be perfect!
Love this! I remember doing something similar with cars when I was a kid. My daughter would like this.
My son would enjoy this! Thanks for the giveaway!
This looks so fun! I love the idea of being able to take the paint off and redecorate it!
That glider looks very cool! And it has a most excellent paint job. 🙂
My sons would love this!
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My grandson would love this.
My daughter would love this.
My nephew would use it!
My boys would love this
My son would love this!
My son would have so much fun decorating and launching this glider.
Oh I would love to use this with Carter! Would be so fun for us to paint and play with outside this spring! He loves airplanes!
Great job! It’s so good to get creative with little ones 🙂
my son would use the paint n fly glider
Who would use your paint-n-fly glider? It would be a gift for the bf’s kiddos
My 3 and 5 yr old granddaughters just had me make paper airplanes for them last week so I know they would enjoy it.
My grandson would play with it.
My niece and two nephews would use them.
I bet my 2 yr old would love this!
I would love this for my grandson I babysit 3 nights a week and we would have a blast with this plane
My four year old and I would love to do this together!!
my nephew
My 5 year old we Homesschool and this woukd be a fun project.
My son would LOVE this! I combines all his favorite things.
my son
my grandson
my daugther
My kids & niece & nephews!!
Both my 3 and 7 year olds would love this.