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Your Criteria: Age: All Ages Price: All Prices Gender: Boys and Girls Category: Kits Over 30 fascinating activities all about weather and climate. Build your own barometer, weather vane, rain gauge and hydrometer. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 5250 (added 10/27/2005) . The Soundtracker will react to sound impulses and objects in its way. It will reverse away from a sound or obstruction, than move forward. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 5249 (added 10/27/2005) . Learn and build your own AM/FM Radio Kit. Safe,solderless,educational and fun! ToyDirectory Product ID#: 5248 (added 10/27/2005) . Gear Drive Operation-Learn how motors,gears and pulleys put things in motion. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 5246 (added 10/27/2005) . Teaches you how a telephone works! No special tools are needed to build this telephone. Includes the latest features such as last number redial,mute,flash,pulse/tone switch,ringer on/off switch. Full color assembly manual. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 5245 (added 10/27/2005) . Easy to build-Press & release the switch and watch the saucer rise into the air! ToyDirectory Product ID#: 5243 (added 10/27/2005) . My PhotoStory allows you to "publish" your own hard cover book featuring all your favorite print or digital photographs! This kit includes all the materials you need for making your book, including markers, tape for adhering photos, over 100 "Mrs. Grossman´s" stickers, and a postpaid envelope for returning your materials to "the publisher." The standard book includes 15 professionally typeset pages. My PhotoStory now offers an internet production option that includes online drawing tools with assorted backgrounds and stickers, photo downloading capability, allows for more words per page, a choice of font styles and colors and faster production times at no extra cost. This option is perfect for those who now use digital technology for photos. This kit is very popular with the "tween" market. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 4813 (added 9/27/2005) . This kit contains over 500 Pop-Outs, fun and easy pop-out shapes that can be glued on the kit´s 20 cards and envelopes with the included glue stick. — In a May 2012 survey about best selling toys Kim Emigh, VP of ecommerce at Growing Tree Toys in State College, Pa., gushed to TDmonthly: "Every time we get this item in, it sells so quickly!" ToyDirectory Product ID#: 4807 (added 9/26/2005) .
This net habitat (almost like a Chinese lantern) encloses caterpillars, food and the setting for a caterpillar’s eventual metamorphosis. It requires mail-sent larvae. “The Butterfly Garden not only shows actual insect metamorphosis, but it does so in just three weeks' time. Many other animal habitats can take up to six months for any changes to occur. This makes it a perfect item for kids who have short attention spans and is an ideal science project for any classroom,” John White, marketing director of Insect Lore, told TDmonthly. — Fred Rosenberg of On the Park in Kingwood, Texas, named this as his No. 1 seller in May 2008, with sales of 50 to 60 units monthly. “I just can't keep them in stock right now,” he told TDmonthly. “We have a display on our counter with the real butterflies so people can see it go through the process,” said Kim Emigh, VP of e-commerce at Growing Tree Toys in State College, Pa. — 25% of 64 retailers surveyed in August 2008 named this as their top-selling nature toy, reporting average sales of 12 per month. Five of 38 retailers named Insect Lore’s butterfly habitats as best-selling science and nature products in late summer 2009. In an August 2010 survey, 21 percent of 43 specialty retailers said Insect Lore is a top-selling science and nature brand. Five retailers specifically cited Butterfly Garden as a best seller. — As of 5/21/2012, the Butterfly Garden had spent more than 1,600 days in the top-100 best-selling toys and games at Amazon.com and has 4.4 out of 5 stars from 461 reviews. AWARDS: 2010 TDmonthly Top Seller ToyDirectory Product ID#: 3975 (added 7/18/2005) . This fun introduction to the world of advanced and beginning electronics comes complete with everything needed to perform 130 electronic experiments in one kit. It includes a fact-filled illustrated manual and requires no tools or soldering. The kit has a built-in speaker, 7-segment LED display, two fully integrated circuits and rotary controls. Each of the basic electronics parts is mounted and clearly marked on the breadboard. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 3563 (added 5/12/2005) . Non-soldering kit that shows you how to build exciting circuits: Alarm,Kazoo,Transistor radio,Voltmeter and more. — Gregory Faith, owner of Inside Out Hobbies in Nashua, N.H., told TDmonthly in a May 2015 survey that this was one of their best-selling activity kits. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2430 (added 1/5/2005) .
The Teaching Tank is an affordable, award-winning, "visually exciting" teaching aid educationally designed for children to do hands-on science. The tank's large viewing area allows students to easily see what is happening. Its 150 experiments let children view roots, worms and chemical reactions like with no other product. The tanks are a snap to assemble, a breeze to clean and fun to use. In addition, the Teaching Tank can be converted into a small aquarium in about 3 minutes. ToyDirectory Product ID#: 533 (added 9/1/2004) . The Budding Scientist Kit is a great way to experience the Teaching Tank. It
includes the smaller 8" x 8" tank and the Discovery Book Sampler with eight
lessons that will get your child excited and on their way to enjoying
science and learning new things about the world we live in! ToyDirectory Product ID#: 532 (added 9/1/2004) . Kevin Tjaden, owner of Scientific Wizardry in Boise, Idaho, had this to say: “It's an electronic kit — kind of like the ones we had when we were kids. … It's really taken off. It also targets the right age range: 8-14, which allows for increased market share. It's become easier to use and easier to understand. As parents, everyone remembers it, but certain parts didn't work that well, certain springs would fall apart. … By solving those problems, people say, "This is like what I had as a kid, but better!” — As of 12/17/2012 this product had 4.9 out of 5 stars from 477 reviews on Amazon.com and was No. 16 on the top 100 bestselling toys and games. PROS: Fun and educational, lots of possible circuits. CONS: Kit doesn't always explain how the circuits work. — In a late Summer 2012 survey, four out of 12 retailers told TDmonthly that Snap Circuits were one of their best selling Science & Nature toys. . ToyDirectory Product ID#: 1116 .
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