This 30-piece set includes pieces of many shapes and sizes. The photo shows them all together (in red and blue version, or, as they call it, Flamingo and Turquoise). This set already is enough to build many different and unique creations.
K’NEX Education Gears kit focuses on building moving models. Along with the basic building pieces, the set has some gears and instructions for building three moving models. This set may help kids understand gears interactions and basic mechanics. This is one of the proposed models – an eggbeater. The tips rotate when you move the crank.
Many K’Nex Education sets offer moving models, and can have gears and motors. This set, however, doesn’t have a motor. The gears you rotate yourself are the only source of movement.
This set has relatively small pieces, so it will not be a good choice for the small children. Sometimes connecting pieces may also be though, so the best age for K’NEX Education Gears kit is 8-10 years old. Even if this set has no mini K’Nex pieces, you should be very careful about giving it to any child under the age of 7. You should also be careful around the moving gears – they are not metal, but having hair stuck in it is still very unpleasant.
Moving crafts can be a great add-on to any K’Nex collection. However, this set has a relatively small number of gears for so many regular pieces, so you have to be precise while using them. The set also offers a very limited number of the possible models. This, however, is not a big problem, since K’Nex crafts are easy to invent, and this set is more than enough to create many different things.
ASOK is a Chinese brand of classic magnetic frame building kits. They almost always come in pastel colors and have gently rounded edges.
The pieces are smaller than in most similiar kits, but there are more pieces in each set than usual.
The kits also have many specialized pieces like windows or wheels, so you can create cars and houses with just one set.
As seen on Tv and in cartoons. Made by Willy, 4 years old.
A very big and complicated K’Nex model. It makes a very good use of the flake-like K’Nex pieces. These pieces can connect to each other on all kinds of angles, and also stack. The set also has connecting rods of different sizes.
Another Dino Dudes creature with the wings and a head this set has. Also note all kinds of the K’Nex “flakes” pieces that are the base of this model.
A box of Magna-Tiles Freestyle set. It has both usual tiles and tiles with movable magnets.
You can assemble the pieces in any way you want, but the set also offers some patterns you can fill with suitable pieces. All pattern cards, of course, are prehistoric animals.
This set is very similar to Plus Plus, but with simplier, smaller pieces. Just like with Plus Plus, the set has identical pieces of different colors. Incredibly Interconnectable Toys waffle blocks have only one peg on the long side and two pegs on the short side. Unlike Plus Plus blocks, they also have square windows in their centres.
Danish Plus Plus sets are among the most popular and well-known “waffle” building sets. Almost all pieces in these sets are exactly the same – except for the wheels and the baseplates. However, even with only the basic pieces, you can build almost anything.
All basic pieces have exactly the same shape and size – they look like two pluses joined together, hence the brand name. Each piece has two pegs on the long sides one peg on the short sides, and the matching empty spaces. The pieces are thick, so the pegs are as thick as they are long. Because of this, you can connect the pieces in any direction, they will hold well all the same. So you can build both 2D mosaics and all kinds of 3D shapes, connecting the pieces vertically, horizontally, or even with an angle. The Danish schools use Plus Plus kits as an educational tool. They help teach kids basic STEAM skills and help them develop fine motorics and creativity.
To add some difference and more variety to the crafts, the Plus Plus brand offers countless sets with different numbers and colors of the pieces. There are pieces of different colors and hues, glowing pieces, pieces with glitter, and so on. The sets also may include any number of the Plus Plus pieces. There are also both small traveling kits and big gift sets.
This Smartmax set has rods of three types – long, short, and curved.
