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Discovery Exclusive Eyepopping Early Science Kit | 
 enlarge | Brand: Discovery Channel
Category: Toy
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 39660
EAN: 0743252708941
ASIN: B0006JANPW
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| Features:
| • | Science and magic meet | | • | Grow amazing expandable creatures | | • | Make a bead bracelet that changes colors in the sun | | • | And learn the secrets of color mixing | | • | Activity booklet filled with 14 creative activities |
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Product Description
Capture a rainbow in a tube, grow colorful gobs of giggly jellies and discover the fun of science. Designed with young Einsteins in mind, this kid-friendly kit sparks your child's imagination with 14 creative activities. Grow amazing expandable creatures, make a bead bracelet that changes colors in the sun and learn the secrets of color mixing. You can even pour magic sand into water and, incredibly, the sand doesn't get wet! This is the kind of science that gets kids excited to learn more.Includes: - Two Grow creatures
- Polyacrylamide crystals
- Rainbow tube
- 24 Color tablets
- 15 Solar beads
- Bracelet cord
- Color changing paper
- Two Cotton swabs
- Magic sand
- Two Test tubes
- Magnifier
- Three Pipettes
- Color mixing tray
- Three Plastic cups
- Activity booklet
- 2 month manufacturer's warranty
A perfect introduction to science, this kit enhances your child's sense of wonder for the world around us. Safety warning: This product contains small parts that may present a choking hazard for young children.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not much bang for the buck January 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thought this was a little too expensive for the kit. The kids had fun with it but for cotton swabs, string and a couple of grow creatures you can buy at walmart 2 for a dollar it just wasn't worth the money. It had some magic sand and some dye tablets, test tubes etc. Most of these things you can buy from the store for nearly nothing. I would not recommend.
Science is fun. January 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this kit for my 6 year old grandson & he loved it! His Mom said they worked on it together & had a lot of fun while learning about various scientific principles appropriate for his age. I would recommend it.
Fun, but more Magic than Science January 4, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This kit is fun, well put together, and the projects are laid out in serial order, which is nice when you only have a little bit of time to sit down. However, I wouldn't necessarily call it a `science-kit', it is more of a `magic-kit' that is very accurately targeted at bright 5 year olds and older kids.
The kit takes the first-step towards some very-basic scientific principles, particularly practice in measuring volume, buoyancy, and simple acid/base reactions. My son got a kick of of seeing why counting to 100 (ml) is a useful skill. Much of the kit is focused on water-absorptive materials, but the instructions don't help the parent to explain what is happening. For example, why do polyacrylamide crystals soak up so much water, and where does it go (a chance to explain cohesion and show surface tension)? It also doesn't follow next steps, like - how can we get the water out of the expanded crystals (to show dehydration and water/heat reactions)?
So even though it's not `scientific' per se, it is a lot of fun for my oldest. Plus, like a lot of nerdy fathers, I have difficulty getting excited about tossing the ball around or painting pictures. But science, even at the most basic, reminds me of that first microscope or potato battery I was so fascinated with as a child.
 Great Science Kit! June 10, 2006
58 out of 58 found this review helpful
My seven year-old son is obsessed with science. We buy science kits like other people buy food. So I can compare this kit to a lot of other brands and say that this one is one of the best I have seen. It had everything you need included (there is no need to buy any weird supposed "common household items" to do the experiments). You do need baking soda and vinegar, but that is it. And I do consider those to be true common household items.
The rainbow wand looks really cool, even my three teens were impressed with it.
They give really detailed directions and every experiment worked. I also like that they tell you things like how to clean up the sand. We had bought martian sand from another company and I had no idea how to get the water out of the cup without sending the sand down the drain.
Having priced many of the items in this kit individually, I feel it was a really good deal.
I do agree with the other reviewer that it would be nice if they included more than one piece of goldenrod paper.
Nice Pick March 9, 2006
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
My 7 yr old chose this and we have had fun working with it. I wish it came with more than one sheet of coloring changing paper, but other than that, I'm satisfied. It should be priced a bit lower.
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