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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!

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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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I cannot believe that other reviewers gave this cheesy so-called science kit 5 stars. I gave it to my almost 5 yr. old grandson for Christmas. His mom & I decided that one does not need the junky things included in this set to do these experiments. For instance the little plastic food coloring bottles available at the grocery store are perfectly suited for mixing colors either on paper towels or in custurd cups. The chrystal making stuff is what is used in baby diapers and for $.26 (the cost of one diaper) you can make chrystals easily. The magnifying glass is so chintzy--very small and hard to see through the murky plastic.

Get your child an inexpensive real magnifying glass. No more packaged so-called science kits for us. Most kids really interested in science would find little inspiration in this kit.

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I don't understand all the negative reviews. My daughter LOVES science. She's 6, but we started doing boxed science kits when she was 4. We have done many including the Smithsonian Volcano kit, the SE Disgusting Science, SE Magic Science, SE Mind Blowing Science, SE Tasty Science. Some of the other kits were a bit hard for her, they are meant for 8 and up, but she LOVED them all. She enjoyed this one because she was able to do all the activities with very little help.

Yes the stuff is cheap and you can buy all the stuff at the store but it is much easier and interesting in the box. Everything is there with instructions. We were able to just open the box and go. We have done experiments from books but my daughter always favors the boxed kits.

The fizzy tablets are much more fun than food coloring but we did redo some of the activities with food coloring because she enjoyed doing them over and over again, especially the plate color mixing and the soap activity. Making a rainbow over and over again in milk then dispersing it with soap was so entertaining to her!

I think this is a good beginner kit for preschool and elementary children. A great start for science kits, it builds their knowledge of working with these tools for future science experiments.

We can't wait to do more science kits :)

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I bought this for my 3 1/2 year old son. I read many of the reviews and decided it was an easily packaged few hours of fun. It was what many described...basic and low quality. But in the end, my son has enjoyed playing with it.