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My daughter loves her horses, but this is a cool set because it is actually educational. Everything is printed on high quality paper and seems really nice

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Slow shipping but the product arrived in great conditions and y child enjoys playing with it. For children interested in horses this is a great and educational gift.

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The volcano turned out great and my son had a lot of fun once it was ready to test. Very simple to do.

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Judging by the box, I was expecting this to be about a 6" high volcano. It is barely 3" high. However, it does erupt, again and again, as often as you like. It is easy to make (the children did it themselves), comes with dinky paints and a brush (we used our own paints) and delights the children.

We placed it on a jelly roll pan for the eruptions -the pan prevents all the lava from running all about the table. We liked adding food coloring to our vinegar to make orange-ish lava, too. All this leaves a patina of lava-colored stains on your volcano -excellent fun!

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My child needed to make a volcano for school and this product was a big help to her and got her an A+ and I like this product.

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I fell in love with the sound of the Super Dry Studio Tambourine the first time I picked it up. It's kind of hard to describe the sound. It's both old-world sounding, like that of a primitive unrefined instrument, yet can at the same time be have a modern and brash industrial feel. It's probably the closest you can get to sounding like rattling scrap metal while still retaining a musical tone.

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Although I love the miniLuk controller (and the regular Luk controller as well), these 2 particular books can be very frustrating. They are not like the other miniLuk books where you put the controller over the book. For ONLY these 2 books (I own many of the miniLuk books, plus Geometry 1 and 2) you put the controller next to the book. It is very hard to remember whether you put the QUESTION TILE onto the answer number block or if you look at the question number and grab the ANSWER TILE. I'm not sure this makes sense without the controller and book in front of you, but believe me, there are two very different ways to think about this type of puzzle, and the directions that go along with the book are not that great. The rest of the miniLuk books I have prevent this problem by requiring you to put the controller over the answer pictures. If you buy these two books, be prepared to sit down and spend some time making sure your child is thinking about this the right way!! (and possibly getting frustrated if your brain is one that naturally thinks the opposite way from the way it's intended to be used)

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I use mine to de-stress rather than a stress ball. My 3 year old niece uses it as a toy. I even sometimes use it to add accents in drum practice. Takes a lot of abuse and still looks new. Great product!

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Thought it might sound similar to a rain stick. It doesn't, but it makes a soft sound and it can be amusing for a few minutes, so I'm glad I got it.

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My little girl (9)~ absolutely loved this gift for Christmas. She played with it so much and then started making perfumes as gifts for her friends. I would absolutely recommend this it has a lot of really neat experiments and very reasonably priced.

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I purchased this for my 9-year-old granddaughter. She was thrilled with everything inside the box and began creating her bath goodies. My only concern was that you needed to wear gloves to make the concoctions, with warnings about your skin not touching the liquids. Yet these same bath bombs were supposed to go into the tub with you? Plus the dyes had warnings about staining your bathtub. Needless to say, she created but did not use in the tub.

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Awesome and fun kit! Hours of fun. Was a good way to interact with the kiddos and prompted discussion on what certain things were and how to make them. Great gift idea! I want to buy more in the future!

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I purchased this for my daughter and she absolutely loves it.

She plays with it all the time. A great buy.

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My 16m old loves this he's exploring shapes

And sizes and pictures so this was a good start.

Will be getting more, ones with sounds also.

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Product arrived before the expected date of arrival, seal packed. I recommend this seller.

Review of Geomag Kids Panels - 150 pieces

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I gave this set to my four-year-old son and he loves it, as do his daddy and I. The only problem is that he made something that took almost all the pieces and he likes it so much he won't take it apart! Now we have to get another set for his birthday so the grown-ups can play, too. If you get these (and I highly recommend them), get a lot; everyone will want them, especially if you have a house full of builders and geometers like we do.

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We bought this for our 8 year old who has some of the standard magnet sets. He really likes this one and it offers a new challenge with the sided pieces.

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I used to like building things as a kid so I think this is a good introduction to planning and thinking ahead for young kids. If they like it, you can always add on to it and give them more stuff. If they hate it then well, the world needs ditch diggers in the future too.

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Yes. If you have a child who sticks things in his mouth don't buy this. However you may want to have a talk with him because that's a weird habit for an older child. My son is 7. He LOVES Geomag. We have many sets. He would never put one in his mouth because he needs every single piece to complete his creations! He makes tall buildings, automobiles, trains, things that spin, balls & everything you could imagine. He doesn't follow the included plans & just builds on his own. He sticks them on everything metal around our house. It's just a great toy. You can throw a bunch of the balls/sticks in a bag to take to the grandparents, set them at a table & they are good for an hour. Every child has different interests & attention spans, but if you have a little builder this is a great toy.

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We babysit our 2 grandsons 3 days a week and wanted some magnets for them. These are awesome toys? My grandsons, their father, and my son's brother love to mess with them. Unbelievable strength to the magnets --get 2 or 3 sets so larger items can be made.

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He loves these cars and I love that there's nothing to really break off of them. I would recommend for any under 1.

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My 8 month old son likes these cars. I wouldn't say that he can't live without them or anythingbut he isn't one of those "this is my favorite toy!" kind of kids. He does enjoy these, thoughas does his 2 1/2 year old sister. He plays with them, and enjoys manipulating the wheels, and I think they will be even more fun when he decides to crawl. ;) They are cute, sturdy, and we haven't had any issues with paint or anything. We like them! Cute, classic toy!

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My grandson is 9mos. old. He loves these cars! They are his favorites. Being a baby, everything goes into his mouth at some point. These cars show no sign of paint issues or even chew marks...and he has 6 teeth. I will definitely have to get him a couple of trucks to go along with these. Well pleased.

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My son puts everything in his mouth so I appreciate that the wheels on this are sturdy enough to withstand a lot of mouthing. They are also big enough that I don't feel nervous even if one were to accidentally come off.

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My 12 month old twin boys absolutely love these they look for them as soon as they wake up and cry when we take them away for bathtime!

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My son is hard to buy toys for because his favorite objects are every day items, card board boxes, books and magazines, kitchen itemsthings that "adults" use. Which makes since for any baby because they need to learn about the world around them. I believe that this toy would be great for a more mellow baby that sits still long enough to explore the buttons and is not interested in how things mechanicly work (hinges, springs, sliding cabinets, turning over rugs). Cute toy but my boy doesn't have the patience for more than 30 seconds with it. I did give it high marks for durability as it has been dropped from the pack-n-play onto the floor for a variety of physics tests he likes to do.

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I bought this toy for my 8 month old. He likes the music and to push it along with him when he crawls. The lights and music keep his attention. It seems fairly durable and rolls easily.

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My daughter got this as a gift for her first birthday and four months later, it's the only toy she still plays with. We tied a small rope/leash around its neck and she loves dragging this thing all over the house. She has dropped it, thrown it, and committed other abuses and it's still going strong. I don't find the song annoying although it does get stuck in my head.

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My nephew started to like the toy until he had 2years, before that it was just to bulkie for him. I recommend to respect the age recommended if you want to make sure is going to be success and not be disappointed... The toy is very nice and pretty... high quality...

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We got my daughter this toy for Christmas when she was seven months old. I love the colors and the sounds, and like the educational value of the counting. Many singing toys can be annoying, and maybe I just have a high tolerance for noisy toys, but I don't mind this one at all. The tune is pretty catchy and not overly annoying, and I still feel this way after hearing it almost non-stop for a 10-hour car ride. My daughter continues to love this toy three months after Christmas, and continues to press the button that plays the full song. She seems to have learned which button plays the song and which count. I highly recommend this!

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The kit came with all the parts.. and everything was fine except the bottle and penny. I unscrewed the cap and the dropper part (nipple) fell off. It is to small, so the bottle is useless. As for the penny, I was under the impression that it is copper that scratches the minerals? The penny was from the 1990's when they put very little copper in the pennies. Not a huge deal we had a 1970's here but still a little irked.

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This item was exactly what I was looking for: a basic test kit that could easily be carried into the field and takes up very little space at home. Gives you what you need and no exotic extras.

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It arrived nicely boxed. It was about a week late, but I was wondering what Japan Post was. The item came from Japan. I payed the expedited shipping and so it arrived only a few days later that I thought it should, but had I not it could easily have taken a month extra time. I got a soroban it is high quality and looking at how efficient it is made to work no wonder the Japanese beat the US's best with an adding machine. Anyway I am very happy with what I got, and how they shipped it.

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We purchased this truck for our son's first birthday. It's big for a toy truck and tiny for a ride on so it's a good size for him right now. I was surprised that it was a bit more difficult to put together than I had anticipated. The crane didn't want to snap in place and I was afraid it would break, but it didn't. and the string holding the crane was incredibly difficult to thread through the hole. We had to resort to some tape and tweezers. Additionally, every time I go to pick it up and move it, I get frustrated because the piece I grab lifts off. I think I will manage to train myself to pick it up by the cab.

All that aside, it appears to be well constructed, doesn't make any noises or require batteries and is easy on the eyes all positives in my book. The back top piece comes off so my son enjoys hiding away some of his smaller toys in there and is surprised to find them later.

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Review of VTech InnoTab 3 The Learning App Tablet, Blue

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program On paper, this tablet looks pretty cool. It has a lot of features for not that much money, including a camera that can take pictures and videos. However, nothing really runs easily or with any speed at all. My daughter is nine, but intellectually delayed. She functions at about a 3 year old level. She is able to use her iPad with ease, and figures out how to do things with it instinctively. Despite a lot of time spent with this tablet, she didn't figure out any features on her own. A few times, she was catching on, but the steps needed to take a picture or go to a game confused her---there are lots of yes and no menus, lots of buttons to press, and everything is very slow. Most kids don't tolerate long loading screens that well.

We hitched the tablet to the internet with ease, and were able to use a VTech account we had made in the past for my daughter. This registered the product, and updated the tablet. We then tried the cassette that came with the tablet. It had three features. One was a game with a drop of water, which was "educational" in terms of the water changing states to ice at times and the game explaining that. It only worked with the D pad, which was confusing to today's touch pad generation! I can't see many kids really being engrossed by it. Another feature was a book, with 20 pages, about sounds. The book would be of interest to maybe a 2 or 3 year old, but I don't think most of them could figure out how to change the pages---it wasn't easily apparent, and we had to go back a menu to do it. The pages had limited interactivity. The third feature was a coloring book type app. You used the stylus to fill in sections of the picture different colors---not terribly creative. You could then shake the screen and the picture wobbled a bit. Not really a thriller, although probably some kids would play with it for a while.

A lot of the content was ads for other cassettes! When you went to watch a video you made, most of the videos listed were for other games you could buy.

The camera was okay---it took low res pictures, if you had enough light. I could see kids enjoying this, if they didn't have access to another camera.

The screen wasn't very responsive. You really needed to use the stylus---fingers didn't work well.

Overall---I'm just not sure what to say. Nothing was super bad about this tablet, but nothing was really that good, either. I supposed if you have a young child that badly wants a table, and you don't want to or can't get them an iPad, and they have a good tolerance for slow programs, and they aren't craving terribly exciting content---this might work. Otherwise, I'd look elsewhere.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Innotab vs. an ipod/Android device:

There are some kid-friendly android tablets out there for not much more than the innotab. Plus older generation iPod touch devices are not too much more expensive. Leapfrog, Disney, Nickelodeon and other big draws for kids make content for all these devices, so what's a parent to do?

Typically those apps are around $4-5 for iOS/Android. The Vtech games offer 3 modes in each cartridge (games, art and story), so in a way it's like getting 3 apps, which makes the prices much more comparable. Additionally, used kids clothing stores almost always have a ton of games very cheap and this is a great way to buy at a lower cost.

In my opinion, if your child is on the younger side (3-6), he might like the Vtech better if you're willing to buy into a few games. The educational content is much higher on Vtech than the free apps on iOS/Android, and with my tips above, it's probably cheaper on the real game/app content as well. The trade off is being locked in to Vtech, not being able to quickly stream content to the device, and lower specs on the hardware itself.

If you have older children, or if you want to watch a lot of video content (ie digital copies of movies, stream shows from things like the Disney Jr. app, etc) then the iOS/Android might be a better option. Also, if your kids are on the older side (7+), I'd see the days being numbered for how long they'd hold on to an Innotab before wanting that wider range of content.

My 5 year old likes the innotab, but usually reaches for a Kindle, iPod, etc first. However, he has older siblings so he's learning from them, too. I don't feel like the content on those devices is educational, but its fun. Therefore, it'll come down to your tolerance as a parent as to what they spend their screen time doing.

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+Works with a large library of games.

+Games offer 3 modes on each cartridge game, art and storybook.

+Durable construction

+Low cost games using my tips above and considering the variety in content on each cartridge

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-Compared to the Innotab 3s, which is only $30 more, it lacks rechargeable batteries and wifi. These might help bridge some of the gaps to an iOS/Android device, but I don't have the 3s to know for sure

-Screen scratches easily

-Must connect to computer for any progress updates and learning achievements to be visible online.

-No way to translate a cartridge purchase into a downloadable form of the content. It would be really nice to be able to transfer the game cartridge onto the internal storage so you don't have to carry multiple cartridges. Many games sold in cartridge form can be bought online (including here on Amazon as a redemption code) and downloaded to internal memory. The down side of this is that the license is linked to your Vtech account, so if you gave or sold the innotab to someone, they'd lose that content as soon as they sync it to their own account.

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A lot of kids play with their parents smart phones and tablets but not every place online is child friendly. That is why I'm excited about the VTech InnoTab 3 Learning App Tablet. It's made just for children and totally kid appropriate. Perfect for ages 3-9. The games, stories, and activities are educational. There's a built-in 180 degree camera for taking photos and making videos. It's also an e-reader and mp3 player! A large library of subjects include reading, math, social studies, science, creativity, problem solving. The InnoTab 3 Tablet is an awesome holiday gift or a great tool to supplement learning with back to school. (VTech provided me with a product sample but all thoughts and opinions are my own) http://simplesojourns.com/

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Our VTech Innotab 3 is enjoyed by my 3.5 year old twins and our 9 year old son. The girls love to play with the music and the camera and taking fun pictures, while my son enjoys being challenged by games and apps. I appreciate how easy it is to reverse the camera.

The sound is crystal clear and does not sound like it is coming from the speaker of a toy. The controls are easy to use and intuitive, and the games are challenging enough (and educational) for my 9 year old, but still spark the interest of my little ones without frustrating them.

The Learning Lodge software that is needed to manage music and movies as well as download apps and games takes a long time to load and is a bit sluggish and less intuitive than the Innotab 3. If you are purchasing this as a gift for a child, I would suggest loading the batteries and hooking it up to the Learning Lodge before giving it as a gift, you will save hours of pestering.

As with many similar devices, I recommend rechargeable batteries or the battery pack accessory.

We have had this for about a month and it has stood up well to my kids. I like how there is a slot for the stylus on the back of the tablet. This helps my kids resist the urge to carry it around by the attached stylus.

The variety of apps and games for the Innotab is impressive, and there is a nice range of prices. The Learning Lodge does not have the clearest distinction for age ranges on the games and apps, so you will have to look carefully.

disclosure: I was given an Innotab 3 to facilitate my review. however, all opinions are my own.

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The InnoTab 3 comes with the tablet, 2 stylus pens, 1 stylus cord, 1 game cartridge, 1 USB cable, 1 Learning Lodge Installation CD-ROM and 4 AA batteries. Do you know what it is like when a new kids toy or technological device arrives in my house and 4 kids want to play with it at the same time? Well I'll tell you: utter and complete chaos! Which is just a testament to how much the enjoy playing with it.

One of the great things about VTech products is the Learning Lodge Software. It allows you to connect your devices to track and monitor your child's progress and also gives you a plethora of download to purchase. The Learning Lodge features more than 350 educational games, e-books, music and videos developed specifically for each child's unique stage of development and includes a broad library of subjects like reading, math, social studies, science, creativity, problem solving and so much more! Once you install Learning Lodge onto your computer and register your new device, you are given one free download. Your free download allows you to choose from a specific list of apps or eBooks. Apparently, I still had some free downloads left over from the last few VTech items I registered, so we were able to download a couple of educational apps onto our new InnoTab 3.

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* The stylus cord is a life saver. I cannot tell you how many times we misplaced both InnoTab 2 stylus. One end of the cord attaches to the stylus while the other attached to the tablet. Now that little pen will never fall between my couch cushions again!

* The smaller design, compared to the InnoTab 2, makes it easier for tiny hands to hold. This means my 3 year old can get a good grip on it as he rips it out of the hands of one of his older brothers.

* There is really a great selection of apps to choose from. I was able to look for titles in specific categories (u.e. math, problem solving, etc.) to make sure I had a little bit of everything covered. In addition, there are also character themed games and eBooks that kids will love.

* I love that all of the games and apps are educational so you don't have to feel bad about them having a little screen time with their InnoTab.

* Great color on the screen.

* The 4 AA batteries that were included in the package were a nice touch and let you get stared right away.

What My Kids Liked

* The MP3 player. We love listening and singing along to the radio in the car and my boys love being able to have their favorite tunes accessible to them anytime.

* The camera. They love taking silly pictures of themselves and each other, and occasionally sneaking one of me, and then editing them

* The games, of course! Their favorite game happens to be the Switch & Go Dino one that I was able to download for free. They are definitely playing this the most.

What We Didn't Like

* While the smaller design is nice, I was disappointed to see that the screen also got smaller too. I would have rather they kept the overall size of the tablet larger to keep the screen the same.

* The battery life is short, especially when being used by multiple children. The InnoTab 3 takes 4 AA batteries and I find myself having to replace them pretty much every other day. If you are going to invest in this product, I also suggest you get the Rechargeable Power Pack which will save you a ton on batteries in the long run.

Overall, we are once again pleased with the latest VTech InnoTab learning tablet. I only wish I had more of them so I didn't have to listen to the constant bickering of who's turn it is to play.

I received a complimentary product in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Lakeshore Learning set quite a set to my kids. I didn't expect to see so many in the box. When my kids got home from preschool they had such a field day playing with Lakeshore Science Viewers: Complete Set & the My First Science Experiments. This whole package came to me super fast and full of fun in each box and lots of learning toy products for toddlers and up.

The Lakeshore Science Viewers: Complete Set which I never expected to get this many. I remember having a version like these in the 80/90′s when I was growing up and remembered how many hours I spent looking, changing, and pulling the lever down for a new picture. When my boys got this wonderful set from lakeshore learning we pulled all the round cards out, and started to stack them up. To look through the viewers. I gave 2 of them to a friend of mine who has a kiddo around the same age as W. The viewers are made of plastic, and they seem to handle much handling great. We dropped one on the hardwood and tile and it handled it very well, nothing broke or rattled so its safe to say toddlers won't damage them. The cards are made of cardboard and some kind of film, which will bend with little effort, so with that in mind I suggest letting your kids play with a few at a time. Each box shows off something different. Flowers, animals, mammals, and so on, over 35 pictures per box that's 5 discs per box. I like how they come with a viewer per box, just in case you lose one, or someone borrows it.

The My First Science Experiments was the very first toy we cracked open. Comes with salt, coloring tablets, tray, test tubes and so much more. You can do many experiments with just this box with just about 13 to be exact. My toddler had way more fun adding the colored tablets to the water more than anything, watching and listening to the water fizz as the colors dissolved. Once all the tablets, and salt is gone, your left with the tray and test tubes, which if you have items around the house you can keep playing with the science set. My kiddo's had fun playing with this set and spent a few hours experimenting with the ingredients included. The quality of the whole set is great and sturdy and handle much water weight in the test tubes, and the tray can handle the colored tablets fine, and wont dye the tray for future uses.

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