Scientific Explorer’s My 1st Science Kit – The Science of Color
Scientific Explorer’s My 1st Science Kit – The Science of Color
Scientific Explorer’s My 1st Science Kit – The Science of Color Reviews
I agree with all the reviews here – the good AND the bad. The set is cheap, chintzy, and NOT worth the money for the materials. The magnifying glass is…well, I wouldn’t even call it cheap plastic. Just impossible to see anything through it. The droppers are cheap and I am sure will not hold up to repeated use. The plastic cups are the kind they use to give you 2 pills in the hospital – disposable plastic.
The entire kit is based solely on color mixing using Crayola tub tints! I almost had a fit – I have a jar of 50 of them in the bathroom! Color mixing is all you get here.
That being said – my 4 1/2 year old loved it. Felt like a real scientist with her dropper and what-not. So, was it worth the twenty dollars? Not from a materials stand point. But for watching my daughter learn and discover and become jazzed about experiments even more than she was (if that’s possible), then yes, it was worth it.
It was definitely worth Mom learning a lesson on buying good quality materials and borrowing experiment idea books from the library!
I am a microbiologist and worked years in a lab and know exactly how cheap these materials are, BUT the kids loved it! The bottom line is that if I had brought them the same materials and used food colouring in the pantry, they would have not have had half the interst. Is it the box, the wrapping? Who knows. My hope was to have some fun with science and to introduce the idea of scientific exploration as a joy and this silly kit works. The lesson ideas help you guide them in an age appropiate way and along with extra food colouring from my pantry (arguing over the yellow) we have been able to use this 3 time on rainy days with much enthusiasm. If you want to introduce science as something fun, these kits do the trick. I will certianly purchase more in the future.
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