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Your Own Pot of Snow for Thanksgiving

Who needs a blanket of snow for the trip over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house? It’s just going to make Dad swear and Mom grip the door until her knuckles turn white. The stuff from movie sets and snowboarding parks is...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Nov 23rd, 2009, 12:24 pm
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Spit Balls: World’s Nastiest Stocking Stuffers?

Conceptually similar to the Snowman Kit we featured earlier today, but way yuckier in execution, these tiny polymer Spit Balls react with water to grow 20 times their original size. Throw ‘em and they splatter; handle ‘em and you get slimy....
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Nov 10th, 2009, 12:00 pm
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Grow a Ghoulish Graveyard Gothic Garden

If yours is the type of home where every day is Halloween, this Graveyard Gothic Garden would be a great way to introduce the kids to some of the weirder wonders of nature. Celebrating the strange and unusual, the garden lets you grow Black Dragon Coleus...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Oct 23rd, 2009, 9:00 am
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For the Space Case: Create Your Own Hologram Kit

“Help me, hologram kit; you’re my only hope.” OK, so it’s not quite Star Wars (or even CNN) technology, but this Create Your Own Hologram Kit will give the kids a chance to throw images on a much smaller scale. The kit includes...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Oct 13th, 2009, 8:00 am
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Grow Your Own Bacteria — Well, More of It

If you have kids, you already have ample starter material for this Bacteria Growth Science Kit. And, while growing the icky creatures is fun enough (growing bacteria isn’t bad, either), you can also use the kit to perform experiments, watching...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Sep 4th, 2009, 1:30 pm

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Star Wars Mustafar Volcano Kit: Look Out, Anakin!

If you’re going to teach the kids about volcanic science, what better way to do it than with this lab, which recreates the raging Mustafar volcano from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith? Oddly enough, while the Star Wars Mustafar Volcano...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Aug 27th, 2009, 8:00 am
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Can You Practice Gravity With These Puppets?

There are educational toys and then there are “educational toys.” The famous scientists puppet set, folks, is a little bit of both. Kitschy and cool, they’re also honest-to-goodness geeky. All handmade finger puppets, they represent...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Aug 24th, 2009, 12:01 pm
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Egad, It’s a Black Hole Starter Kit!

Give your kids the power to unleash the most terrifying force in the universe — and, no, we don’t mean tantrums. The Black Hole Starter Kit is really just two 1″ magnetic balls in a can (to which we say bravo for good marketing), but...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Aug 19th, 2009, 8:00 am
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Dagobah Frog Habitat for Young Jedis

The force is strong with young tadpoles — or at least it will be when your kids raise them in this Dagobah Frog Habitat, modeled after the swampy home planet of Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back. Send in the included order form for a tadpole of...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Aug 18th, 2009, 9:00 am
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Levitron Anti-Gravity Top: It’s Magic!

Okay, it’s not technically magic — more like a clever use of magnetic repulsion — but this anti-gravity top from Levitron is still a wonder to behold. After some adjusting to the included top weights (a somewhat tricky feat that Mom...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jul 16th, 2009, 9:30 am

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Budding Architect Must-Have

When I bring my two year old along to drop her kindergartner of a big sister off at school, there’s always drama when we have to leave the classroom. It’s not in the form of anguish from my child being ditched for six hours, but rather my...
Continue reading » Posted by catherinecrawford on Jul 1st, 2009, 2:30 pm
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Mr. Robot Head a Puzzling Sensation

Electric but battery-free, Mr. Robot Head gets his sizzle from a wind-up handle behind his robotic cranium. Once he’s charged, your challenge is to guide the looped wand from one side of the wires atop Mr. Robot’s head to the other without...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jun 22nd, 2009, 7:30 am