Crayola Child Digital Camera Review (or Lack Thereof)

My original intent was to make this a video review of the Crayola child digital camera but the technical problems to follow prevented that. It started right away with the battery cover which took me nearly 20 minutes to unscrew the cover (I had to use a tiny screwdriver and I almost striped the screws in the process), put in the batteries and get the battery cover back on the Crayola kid’s digital camera.


After that frustrating ordeal, I handed the camera to my 2 year old niece and let her run around with it. Now I know the Crayola camera is for kids 3 and up but my niece was over and since she sees me using a camera all the time I thought she might understand the concept. At first she was having a lot of fun running around and making everyone say cheese and even held the child’s digital camera in the general direction of the person or animal she was trying to photograph. All photo taking stopped however when she discovered the power button had a funny little noise. Next thing I know she was intrigued by the noise the delete button made and all her photos were gone! Got her to take a couple more photos for my review of the child digital camera and then quickly retrieved the camera before she erased those too!

I have software that records your desktop and wanted to record the install process for the Crayola digital camera review but after having problems, I thought maybe it was from running the two programs at the same time, so I stopped the recording. I finished the install wizard on the CD and restarted my computer as prompt but when the computer restarted there was no icon and I could not find the program listed anywhere. I went through the install process once again with the same result. I decided to try just hooking up the Crayola child digital camera to my PC and hope it would recognize that it was a camera and at least I could get the photos off the camera to show the quality of the pictures. I hooked the USB cord up and the kid camera’s LCD screen started to glow and my computer chimed like it was recognized but did not react or list a device in my computer panel. I tried to turn the child digital camera off but it did not respond. I unplugged the Crayola camera from the PC and the camera’s LCD screen continued to glow and would not shut off. Frustrated, I left it glowing on my desk overnight only to find it with dead batteries in the morning. Long story short, I repeated the entire process with the same results, from changing the batteries to the camera lying on my desk over night, unable to turn itself off, finding it with dead batteries again in the morning.

I thought of trying to install the Crayola camera software on my laptop, contacting the company Sakar that makes the kids camera or trying something else in hopes of making it work but since all the parents reviews of this camera all have similar issues, I decided to just agree with the consensus that this Crayola child digital camera sucks.

Child Digital Camera Review

Now that you have all bought the latest model kid digital camera for that special child's holiday gift, I need your help to review them. It would be very helpful to let others searching to buy a child digital camera to find your opinion on your child's camera.

First, click comment below (or you can find a post about the same camera you bought and comment to that) and let us know what type of child digital camera you have. Next write a review of the camera, was the child digital camera easy to use for your kid? Was the software easy to install or did it give you problems? What did you like best, what did you like least? Does your child have fun with the digital camera?

Crayola's Child Digital Camera

The first new child digital camera that caught my eye was the Crayola Digital Camera because of the bright colors and unusal EZ grip design. Crayola’s child digital camera from Digital Concepts is a digital camera, video camera and web camera all in one. It has VGA resolution, a 1.3" Preview Screen, Color Genie Photo Editing Software and comes with a one year warranty. Check out the feature list below for all the details.

• Digital resolution 640 X 480 pixels
  
• Includes 1.3" Preview Screen
  
• VGA Resolution
  
• Includes Color Genie Photo Editing Software
  
• Workshop to make Photo Frames
  
• Create Puppets
  
• Edit Center and Game Center
  
• Rubberized durable camera with EZ-grip handles
  
• One year warranty
  
• Available in either purple or green
  

Check back for more child digital camera reviews on the new kids cams coming out for the holidays!

Projects and Games For Your Child Digital Camera

Now most of the digital cameras that are designed to be used by your child come with project software that lets your child use the photos they took to play games, create puzzles and be creative.

But if you are into photography also there are some fun interactive camera projects that you can do with your child to spark their creativity.

1) Plan out a photo shoot with your child, decide on a location to photograph and you both bring your digital cameras.

2) Pick a game to play:

The alphabet game: Have your child take a picture of an object beginning with A-and continue through each letter of the alphabet.

Scavenger hunt: Provide a list of specific things to find and photograph, style (a cat, a fire hydrant, a tree, etc).

Story line: Have your child take photos that will follow a storyline.

3) Let them use the pictures they took with their child digital camera to make a presentation for the whole family to see!

Make Money With Your Child Digital Camera

Do you or your child love taking photos? Why not get paid to take pictures? Check out this website for some free and easy ways to get started selling your photos online. Or if you want to dive in head first and learn how the professional photographers make money, Click Here.

Sticker Wizard Child Digital Camera

The Sticker Wizard KidzCam camera takes up to 152 pictures and can also be used as a web cam or short-clip video camera. , This child digital camera is an inexpensive and totally fun way to create photo-based stickers of friends, family, or pets. The software included with the Sticker Wizard KidzCam, called Snapstickers, includes a Story Maker with 12 easy- to-use story templates, Edit Center with 18 different creative editing tools, and Slide Show Maker that your child can star in. Snapstickers software helps kids to create their stickers based on their own photos or artwork with over 300 sticker templates. There is also a Games Center; children can play games like Photo Jigsaw, Pixel Paddle, Shutterbug, Photo Tiles, and Click Flip, using their pictures.

Contents:

- Digital Camera
- USB Cable
- Software, CD-ROM
- User Manual

PC System Requirements:

-OS: Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME or XP
-Processor: Pentium II 300, Celeron AMD Athlon Processor or Higher
-64MB RAM
-100 MB Free Hard Drive Space
-CD ROM drive
-Available USB Port
-16-bit color display adapter

Extreme Child Digital Camera

If your child likes to bike, rollerblade or skateboard I bet they would think this digital camera and camcorder that attaches right their helmet is cool!

ATC 1000 Extreme Digital Camera
by Oregon Scientific

Description:
The Extreme Cam mounts on your helmet, bike or arm for cool action footage. Capture video of your latest stunts to show to friends and family! It comes with 32 megs of memory that provides for up to 16 minutes of video or 400 still pictures. Includes mounting apparatus for helmets, bikes, goggles, arm and more. Requires 4 "AAA" batteries (not included).