Kawaii Fruits Color & Play Set | 12 Pack | Banana, Cherry, Watermelon, and Strawberry
$14.98/Character MSRP, $8.83 Wholesale
$15.98/Customized Character MSRP, $9.43 Wholesale
High-contrast books are only half right. Babies build vision through touch. DoodleFace Play Characters give newborns the high-contrast shapes their developing eyes need AND the 3D contoured edges their hands can hold, trace, and explore. Newborn eyes are drawn to high contrast. That part is right. But babies also build vision through touch in the first months of life, and a flat book can't be touched. Touch teaches the eyes what shape is. Then vision catches up.
Builds the hands school depends on. As toddlers color, they build the pencil grip and fine motor control school demands. Crayons develop grip better than pencils or markers at 23 months. A thin LCD tablet stylus does not. Screen-free play. Building the foundation for handwriting, reading, and math.
Creative ownership, pretend play, school-ready hands. Children value what they create more than what they are given. Coloring a character they finish themselves activates the brain's social regions the same way playing with a real friend does. Pretend play improves emotional self-control. Hand strength at age 4 predicts handwriting at age 6.
Color, wipe, color again. DoodleFace Wipe-Away Crayons stay on during play and wipe clean with the included eraser cloth. Markers dry out and are messy. Paper gets used up. DoodleFace Crayons don't. The same character becomes a new adventure every time a child picks it up.
What's Included: 12 double-sided characters, each with a wooden base and 3 crayons (color combos change).
Dimensions:
Banana: 13.7 in x 11.6 in
Cherry: 13.7 in x 11.7 in
Watermelon: 13.7 in x 12.4 in
Strawberry: 13.7 in x 9.2 in
Many customers want more colors and an eraser cloth too. That's why many stores stock DoodleFace Wipe-Away Crayons alongside the characters.
Kawaii Fruits Color & Play Set | 12 Pack | Banana, Cherry, Watermelon, and Strawberry
Helps them develop, grow, love, and laugh.
From infant to age 6.
Infants: Touch builds vision.
High-contrast B&W feeds newborn vision. But touch builds it | and your baby’s hands have been learning shape since 33 weeks of pregnancy. As they feel each character’s 3D outlines, their hands teach their eyes what shape is | something flat books can’t deliver. (Lejeune, 2012; Streri & Gentaz, 2003)
Toddlers & young kids: Screen-free play that builds the hands school depends on.
At 23 months, crayons produced mature pencil grasp | pencils and markers didn’t (Yakimishyn, 2002). Tablets weaken fine motor skills (Martzog, 2022). Coloring a 3D Play Character is exercise for the developing hand: crayons resist where markers don’t, and one hand holds the character while the other colors. They think it’s play. You know it’s developing the hands school depends on | for handwriting, math, and reading. (Philip, 2023, AJOT)
School age: Kids color, name, and play them their own way.
Most character toys arrive pre-named and pre-decided. Play Characters arrive blank. They think they’re inventing a friend. Brain scans show they’re activating the social brain | same as playing with a real partner. (Hashmi, 2020)
Pediatricians recommend crayons. Not LCD tablets or markers.
AAP says zero screens under 18 months. Markers weaken grip. LCD tablets weaken fine motor skills. Touchscreens? Worse. They recommend crayons. (AAP, 2026; CDC Milestones; Beck, OTR/L)
Made in small town USA by a parent + teacher.
Most toys get played with once and forgotten. I designed Play Characters to give your child a toy that helps them develop, gets used, lasts for years, and is incredibly loved. Made in our small-town facility with love and care.