Scientific Explorer's My 1St Science Kit - The Science of Color Review

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(More customer reviews)I agree with all the reviews here - the good AND the bad. The set is cheap, chintzy, and NOT worth the money for the materials. The magnifying glass is...well, I wouldn't even call it cheap plastic. Just impossible to see anything through it. The droppers are cheap and I am sure will not hold up to repeated use. The plastic cups are the kind they use to give you 2 pills in the hospital - disposable plastic.
The entire kit is based solely on color mixing using Crayola tub tints! I almost had a fit - I have a jar of 50 of them in the bathroom! Color mixing is all you get here.
That being said - my 4 1/2 year old loved it. Felt like a real scientist with her dropper and what-not. So, was it worth the twenty dollars? Not from a materials stand point. But for watching my daughter learn and discover and become jazzed about experiments even more than she was (if that's possible), then yes, it was worth it.
It was definitely worth Mom learning a lesson on buying good quality materials and borrowing experiment idea books from the library!

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The perfect science introduction for younger kids. Set up a color mixing lab, perform 10 science experiments, grow gobs of crystals in 24 different hues, and capture a rainbow in a tube. Scientific Explorer kits have won praise and awards for fun and educational value from the Parents' Choice Foundation, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Discover Magazine, Scientific American Explorations Magazine, and many others.

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See 'N Say Juniors Elmo Review

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(More customer reviews)I got this for my daughter when she was around a year old. She loved it immediately! The arrow was very easy for her to turn and press. It works just like all the See nSays, where you turn the arrow and then press it and you hear a little song. In this case, it's always the Elmo theme song, but with each picture, the end of the song changes. For instance, one picture is bath bubbles, so you hear the beginning of Elmo's song (only a few seconds) and then it ends with whah whah whah (supposed to sort of sound like singing underwater). I think the 4 pictures and sounds are bubbles, crayons, I think an instrument and one other (my daughter's 3 now and hasn't played with this for awhile, though I'm sure if I pulled it out she'd still love it).
My daughter is the one who figured out that if you press the arrow 3 or 4 times, it'll play the whole song with all the different sound effects. It has a great plastic ring that allows you to strap the toy to most strollers and toy bars. The volume is just right (it doesn't have a volume switch), not too loud or annoying, but loud enough to make baby happy. This toy was so popular with my daughter and her friends, that I often had to loan it out to stop screaming fits at the end of play dates.
If your child is an Elmo fan, you cannot go wrong with this toy!

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Sesame Street Elmo Miniature version of the classic learning toy! Just turn the arrow and press it down to hear a sound effect and short segment of a melody. On the 4th press, the entire melody plays with all 4 sound effects mixed in! Lights flash to the music and each comes with an attachable clip for on-the-go fun. Requires 2 "AAA" batteries.

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