Comments on: Getting Hands On

By: Everything Family Issue 5

Everything Family Issue 5 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:59:06 +0000

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By: Planning with kids | Play-Activities.com

Planning with kids | Play-Activities.com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:48:54 +0000

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By: katef

katef — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:56:12 +0000

Oh I remember as a kid playing with this simple electronics kit – it gave you instructions to connect this wire to this battery to this switch to this motor to make x happen… very cool!
A much simplier version of this, cheaper and more ‘beginners’ (so maybe not for your older kids) is to give them a set of small screw drivers and an old computer or electrical appliance and let them take it apart… old clocks (you know the ones that actually have hands and a wind up mechanism) are really cool inside if you can get them….

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By: PlanningQueen

PlanningQueen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:04:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip HT, I will definitely check them out. PlanningQueens last blog post..Getting Hands On

By: Hungry Tribe

Hungry Tribe — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:46:22 +0000

PQ,
I have found Dick Smith Eletronics shops have a terrific variety of both generic and other brands of motorised wooden kits; allowing the kids to build up a gearbox, and from there learn how motors and automotive transmissions work! They are priced very reasonably (b’w $7 – $25-) depending on what you buy. We have recently purchased a mechanical tyrannosaurus which is a wooden kit, and then motor needs to be built, and attached. As you know my boys are 7, 5 & 1/2 and 4 and these are probably aimed more at the two older ones – but never to early hey!
HT