Archive for the 'Science Toys' Category

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 rings, connecting water, paper kite, […]

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 (it was a T-rex fossil), […]

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 toy I’m talking about - […]

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 up which is pretty accurate […]

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 just too cool to pass […]

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. It can be written in […]

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 crabs but with three eyes. […]

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 chewy? Does it leave you […]