"PIPE-IT-UP!"
AGE GROUP: Ages 6+
CONCEPTS: Mechanics/Joints
Outcome
Product Description
Kids can have fun connecting assorted plastic pipes in multiple configurations of their choosing as they attempt to get the balls from the top of the peg board to the bottom! Pipes made of durable injection-molded ABS plastic. Transparent with different tints for each type of joint (elbow, T, straight, etc.)*Board made of laser-cut acrylic
Reflection
Growing up--and even now--I’ve always loved to build and create new things. This idea combines the classic computer game (pipes, pipe dream, etc.) as well as the principles behind legos, tinker toys, and other assorted construction toys to create a physical representation of the game where there’s no shortage of possibilities! Children will have fun observing various paths a ball takes to travel through a system of pipes they design through experiential learning and their own creativity.
Product Description
For a toy that's truly 'out of this world' U.F.O. Encounters has got to be the closet thing! An adjustable built-in electromagnetic allows kids to spend hours abducting ferromagnetic vehicles, animals, & people (all sold separately). Flashing green LEDs help bring this flying saucer to life along with its glow in the dark display stand. Magnets? Lights?? Glow-in-dark-display stand??? If this project ever gets off the ground, this awesome spaceship could be coming to a galaxy near you!
*UFO cockpit housing consists of vacuum-formed thermoplastic while other plastic components most likely injection-molded
Reflection
Kids as well as adults have a fascination with aliens and UFOs. Plenty of products, movies, & documentaries will serve as testaments to such claims. Providing children with a toy that captures their imagination with notations of life beyond our solar system in both an interactive and visually appealing way fosters not only their own inquisitiveness but also unknowingly provides them with an introduction to the realm of physics with the magnetic apparatus of such a toy.
Product Description
What if you could harness one of the most powerful forces of nature in the palm of your hand? Tornado Pets brings forces of the outside world--inside with this one of a kind weather display. Particles dispersed within a fluid filled tube quickly gather to form a one-of-a-kind cyclone via a system of rotating arms and motors.
*Assorted wallpaper backdrops and internal landscapes sold separately.
**All plastic components of product are injection-molded
Reflection
Children are naturally curious. Growing up I was certainly no different. Of the many things a child might wonder about is: 'how do cyclones actually form?' Whether you're a weather enthusiast or not, you can't deny how interesting twisters can be. Because of their unpredictable and destructive nature, these haphazard hazards are fascinating to observe They'd certainly bring plenty of enjoyment and wonder to a child as a reimagining of nature in the form of a fun yet educational toy.
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