Toys

[Haggis@wk]

it occurred to me that I should also mention this post on learning electronics. There’s also Penny Norman’s Inventions Kit. And I should also mention The Dangerous Book For Boys and, of course, The Daring Book For Girls. and Snap Circuits

[piqaboo]

We spent the morning painting the volcano, and doing acid/base experiments, making predictions, etc. I love purple cabbage 'juice'.

[Schmeelkie]

too funny Piq - we were just playing with our science kit yesterday! Our purple basic solution was blue-green this morning - keeping it to see if the color goes away like they said in the manual. I love giving these kits to kids. They don't really realize how much they're learning...
Several of their X-mas toys are art/craft oriented - both goal-directed (make your own superhero cape) and free-form (bucket o art supplies). They're both so much more 'crafty' than me - and again, a lot of learning going on that feels like fun!

[dai bread]

My grandson got Lego by the ton, but it's becoming difficult to buy Lego just as building blocks. It comes as towns, starships, pirate ships and goodness knows what else. All very fine, but the whole idea of construction toys is to build your own pirate ship etc.

Grandson mixes and matches, so his pirate ship is likely to have a ray gun or two and a tame dragon.

He's getting a baby G-shock watch this Christmas. It has a stopwatch function, among others, so he can time his running.

[Shapley]

I think you can still order basic Lego blocks. Try the Amazon Marketplace:

Lego: Bricks and More: Builders of Tomorrow Set