I would haveliked to hear some specific hints for the child to encourage him further. It was Timmy's job to fill the crayon boxeswith one crayon of each color. Clicking the screen to start the conveyor belt andexamining the individual crayon boxes through a magnifying glass wasloads of fun for Timmy. My favorite activity in The Crayon Factory was mixing and matchingcolors to real-life objects. Kids can choose colors from five coloredcircles and click an action button to put them into the mixer.
Kids learnthat by blending red and yellow, for example, they can make the color,orange.
The sound mix of the narration in the CD-ROM wasn't as balanced as it couldhave been. It seemed that in order to keep the sound effects level at adecent volume, the narration was always softer than the sound effects. There are lots of silly soundcombinations to choose from, although the instructions weren't made veryclear with the narration. The kids can color asection of the picture at a time, making it especially fun for youngerusers. Fixing gears, repairing broken pipes, sorting crayons andchecking quality are all part of a day's fun with The Crayon Factory.