What a terrific
thing that I got from Amazon to Review this time. Some of the toys I have been
sent were cheaply constructed, hard to put together, didn't have much to hold
the child's attention, but this one, YES! I will admit to be about to turn 61
at the end of the month, and I had fun playing with this set and had to drag
myself away because I had other things to do. You do need to check this GeoSmart Educational Set. Here is my Amazon
Vine Review:
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If you are
going to buy your child only one big (price wise) gift this year for Christmas,
Hanukkah, birthday, etc. this GeoSmart EducationalSet, 100 Pieces should be it! Buy this toy!!! If I could I would give it
10 stars and 5A+++. Someone with a brain or a team with a brain designed it. I
opened the set with no kids around (my boys are grown-up) and got myself lost
in making things and seeing what this GeoSmart Set could do. I made a mini-version
of the Pope-mobile. As a quilter, I was putting together some quilt blocks. You
or your child could spend hours making things and rearranging the pieces. I can
hardly wait for my cleaning lady to bring her boy over for him to play with the
set as I know he will love it.
Of note, just
like my other favorite children’s toy, Legos, this set also has more sets that
can be purchased with will add on more pieces and more specialized pieces to
make all sorts of interesting things, especially space related. With the other sets,
you can make a lunar rover, space station, solar spinner, etc. Of course, as
anyone knows that the more sets of Legos you have the more things you can make
whether the Lego folks thought of it or not. The add on sets to the GeoSmart
main set works the same way and we aren’t talking 3-4 piece sets. Some of the
add-on sets have 70 more pieces including the specialty pieces for that set.
I was delighted
to find that the pieces were much bigger than they looked on the computer. For instance,
the wheels for the set are 2 1/2” across, the square pieces are 2 ½” on all
sides. The set is for ages 5+ and up, so the bigger pieces will be easier to
manipulate for small hands. They seem just the right size for making projects
so they don’t get way too big or too tiny to work with. The set is made in nice
bright colors and the different colors come in multiples of two, four or six,
so whatever you are making you can have a matching color on the opposite side
of the first color. The magnets are imbedded in the pieces and don’t feel sharp
at all. All pieces seem to be big enough so that younger brothers and sisters
can’t swallow the pieces.
This is a great set and I highly recommend it!
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