This review is late - because it sat in my drafts - and I forgot to do it entirely - because it went very poorly and the product is gone. My apologies in advance to the Parent Bloggers Network.
Why? Because I left it up to my kids to play with this " Solar Science Lab," generously sent to us by the Parent Bloggers Network. I asked my oldest kids to "review the kit, like I do," and come up with their own ideas about how it's a "good (pros)" and "how it could be better (cons)," and then we could take some photographs of them putting it together maybe?
Needless to say, it did not go as planned.
When the box arrived, I kept pushing it off, so that we could open it and do a proper review, you see, because I was expecting something a bit different than what we eventually found in the box. I knew that this toy cost about $25, and I expected it to be of a certain quality. I expected my review would have gone super.
The Discovery Store says:
"Give
kids a hands-on lesson about the power of the sun as you cook an egg,
create weather in a casserole dish, power a mobile and more.
- Fascinating lab-in-a-box
- Features 30+ exciting activities
- Includes
all necessary lab equipment: parabolic reflector, mirror, test tube,
magnifying glass, electric motor, thermometer, solar cell and more
- Illustrated step-by-step guide
Help young scientists investigate the power of the sun through fun, exploration, and hands-on science."
Sounded awesome.
When I finally caved, and let my kids open the box to play, they were met with a pile of odds and ends, and lots of frustration which ultimately translated to "Let me do it, no, let ME do it, no, let me do it, MAMA!" I enlisted Dad's help, "Here, you put this together."
The kit had many materials to build a few experiments that were likely to only work a couple times. This was very frustrating to me, as a parent, to see that this would end up in the trash, very quickly, as most of it did. Coupled with the fact that the motor experiment couldn't get running under the kids' power, nor with dad's help, we got aggravated.
The kids took various experiment parts and soon Darth Vader was killing bugs in the driveway.
(And the post draft, blank, went in the folder, forgotten.)
But, many an ant has died in our driveway, fried, with the use of a magnifying glass, but I don't think we needed a $25.00 Solar Science Lab to teach us that.
This review is late - because it sat in my drafts - and I forgot to do it entirely - because it went very poorly and the product is gone. My apologies in advance to the Parent Bloggers Network.
Why? Because I left it up to my kids to play with this " Solar Science Lab," generously sent to us by the Parent Bloggers Network. I asked my oldest kids to "review the kit, like I do," and come up with their own ideas about how it's a "good (pros)" and "how it could be better (cons)," and then we could take some photographs of them putting it together maybe?
Needless to say, it did not go as planned.
When the box arrived, I kept pushing it off, so that we could open it and do a proper review, you see, because I was expecting something a bit different than what we eventually found in the box. I knew that this toy cost about $25, and I expected it to be of a certain quality. I expected my review would have gone super.
The Discovery Store says:
"Give kids a hands-on lesson about the power of the sun as you cook an egg, create weather in a casserole dish, power a mobile and more.
Help young scientists investigate the power of the sun through fun, exploration, and hands-on science."
Sounded awesome.
When I finally caved, and let my kids open the box to play, they were met with a pile of odds and ends, and lots of frustration which ultimately translated to "Let me do it, no, let ME do it, no, let me do it, MAMA!" I enlisted Dad's help, "Here, you put this together."
The kit had many materials to build a few experiments that were likely to only work a couple times. This was very frustrating to me, as a parent, to see that this would end up in the trash, very quickly, as most of it did. Coupled with the fact that the motor experiment couldn't get running under the kids' power, nor with dad's help, we got aggravated.
The kids took various experiment parts and soon Darth Vader was killing bugs in the driveway.
(And the post draft, blank, went in the folder, forgotten.)
But, many an ant has died in our driveway, fried, with the use of a magnifying glass, but I don't think we needed a $25.00 Solar Science Lab to teach us that.