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K’NEX Education STEM EXPLORATIONS: Gears – Car Window

This moving model mimics a car window, with a “glass” (smaller frame) risind and fallind when the crank rotates. Many K’Nex Education sets offer moving models, and can have gears and motors. K’NEX Education Gears 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 set 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.

K'NEX Education STEM EXPLORATIONS: Gears - Car Window
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HABA Fantasia Magnetic Mosaic

95 bright small wooden pieces. The name corresponds to the content. Any scene is fantasized quickly, easily and without any complications. In the picture a boy with a cat at a broken gate (he hit with a ball, but the ball flew away). The bells are blossoming in the bushes, but they look more like candles from a birthday cake. All the details of the blue color went to the bright blue sky, and its nothing that they are of different shapes, but the blue is all over the sky! The picture was done within 2 minutes, then the author sped away as quickly as he created it. All in all, a very cheerful mosaic.

HABA Fantasia Magnetic Mosaic
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PicassoTiles Pixel Magnetic Cubes

While PicassoTiles brand focuses on magnetic tiles, they also have sets of magnetic blocks. PicassoTiles blocks are cubes, and there are cubes of different sizes and colors. Set shown on photo has small cubes of 6 different colors. You can build different pixel-like sculptures from them alone or match them with different PicassoTiles “pixel” cubes.

PicassoTiles Pixel Magnetic Cubes