Educational Toys Thames & Kosmos

A fun twist on classic dino dig-outs, these plaster eggs hold dinosaur models that glow in the dark! This gift set, perfect for collectors and dino lovers, is filled with 18 individual glow-in-the-dar more→k dino egg excavation kits, each packaged in a colorful gift box. Each egg contains one plastic dinosaur model, and they’re blind-packed, so it’s a surprise which of the eight dinosaur figures you will dig out each time. Every gift box comes with a small chisel tool for digging the dino out, as well as an instruction manual with fun facts about the 8 different dinosaurs you can collect.

Set up an aquarium for your own living sea creature pets! Prepare the salt water and then watch as small brine shrimp hatch from the included eggs, swim around, feed on the included food, and slowly g more→row larger. A fun, eight-page, full-color guide first explains how to set up the aquarium and hatch and care for the shrimp, as well as offers scientific info about these fascinating creatures and the ecosystems in our planet’s oceans. When properly cared for, the brine shrimp can live for months and even years, and the durable habitat tank can be used for bugs and other things afterward. Customize the tank with the included sea life stickers. The exclusive Wow in the World podcast content (accessed vi…

Build this beautiful kinetic sculpture, a motorized flower model with moving petals, powered by a solar panel. Learn about mechanical systems like motors and planetary gears, and about how solar cells more→generate electricity to power the flower. An ingenious design allows all petals to rotate synchronously, driven by a single motor, resulting in a mesmerizing optical illusion effect. This flower will never wilt, and you will never run out of batteries; it runs whenever the sun shines on it.

It’s time to start mixing things up! In this pretend STEM scenario, you are a chemist for a bath and body products company and it’s your job to make and test different cosmetic products. Use the tools more→in your laboratory to employ different scientific techniques and essential chemistry principles to make soaps and bath bombs. Try out different additives to affect the color, smell, and other qualities of the products you make. Real science and pretend play come together in this activity-filled kit that can be used alone or as an extension of the Ooze Labs Chemistry Station (a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor winner!). As you mold different glycerin soap shapes, you learn about the chemical properties of soa…

Explore the natural beauty and wonder of crystals by growing them yourself in many different shapes and colors. Set up your lab base station — the headquarters for all your crystal growing experiments more→, complete with beakers, test tubes, petri dish, tweezers, centrifuge, display dome, and more. Then conduct more than ten experiments in crystal formation, using safe, non-toxic crystal salts. Make a crystal volcano by growing fast-forming crystals on a paper cone. Watch long spindly crystals form on a rock as if from nowhere. Grow crystals in many different ways, such as in a petri dish by evaporation, on a string dangling in solution, and by cooling a supersaturated solution. Experiment with th…

Explore hydraulics, pneumatics, and robotics with your very own GIANT hydraulic hand! Using over 200 plastic pieces and piston tubes that you fill with water, build an awesome mechanical hand that use more→s hydraulic power to simulate the movements of the human hand--no motors or electricity required! Once assembled, your cyborg hand slips onto your own hand like a glove, with mechanical fingers that you operate with your own fingers and that can grip objects with enough force to lift them. Challenge yourself to pick up and hold a variety of items like bottles, pencils, small items--anything within reach! The hand can be configured in three ways--left hand, right hand, and claw-like, with the thumb …