Archive for the ‘Science Toys’ Category
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Barney the Dinosaur is a purple and green Tyrannosaurus Rex, who comes to life through a child's imagination. Aside from being the main character in Barney and Friends, he is quite likely the most annoying character ever seen on modern children's television. An interesting fact that most don't know about ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The toy industry is a multi-billion dollar market and consumers often find themselves bombarded with the latest and greatest toys from the major players in the industry. While I have never had anything against toy cars or dolls, and in fact my children have plenty of both, I am always ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I love the Ein-O science toys and kits. I played with this one recently and was surprised at the number of cool science projects and experiments you can do with it. The experiments are: making a hoverball, creating a sticky beaker, magic jumping beans, building a simple water filtering, twin ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
I love these kits where you chip away at a rock-like substrate to unearth a dinosaur fossil. I did the GeoSafari X-cavations a few months ago and most recently did one of the Thames & Kosmos kits with my five year old son. While the GeoSafari kit is much bigger ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
This is one of the best educational toys I've reviewed in a while. This is another great one from Tedco Toys' line of Ein-O Smart Boxes. The Force Science kit is all about Newtonian mechanics. With this kit, kids actually get to build their own Newton's cradle. You know the ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
GeoSafari is one of the trademarked lines from Educational Insights, one of the more popular distributors of educational toys. While the GeoSafari Bug Scene Investigator (BSI) is no doubt a play on the popular CSI crime/drama television series, this is a pretty cool toy none-the-less. It's for ages 5 and ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Like many of you, I like to read a few reviews about a product before commiting to a purchase. I did this with Uncle Milton's Ant Farm Gel Colony and was surprised to see so many bad reviews at Amazon. But for me, the lure of this ant farm was ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Note: for similar science kits and toys mentioned in this article, visit Atomic Elephant Science & Toy Co. -- For centuries, students and inventors alike have been intrigued by the idea of a perpetual motion machine. Alas, the second law of thermodynamics has held up to the test of time. ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
For these live animal kits and other science kits, visit Atomic Elephant Science & Toy Co. -- Now the long and short of it about Triops. Family: Triopsidae, Order: Notostraca, Class: Branchiopoda, Subphylum: Curstacea, Phylum: Arthropoda, Kingdom: Animalia. In simpler terms, they are crustaceans. They look almost like small horseshoe ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
If you've ever wondered how bubble gum is made, we'll give you a brief introduction here. The kits used for writing this article as well as other science kits are available at Atomic Elephant Science & Toy Co. -- How would you describe your favorite gum? Is it fruity? Extra ...
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