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view | Gears! Gears! Gears! Beginner's Building Set Gears are fascinating to children! Features 95 sturdy plastic pieces that snap together. Let your child's creative imagination decide which way to build, then turn the gears for action and excitement. Or use the easy color-coded building directions to create something amazing. Includes spinning gears, pillars, connectors, cranks to set creations in motion and interlocking plates for limitless building. An award-winning toy! Ages 3 to 10 years.
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view | Crazy Action Contraptions—A Lego Creation Book Wow! Lego lovers will thrill to get their hands on this intriguing instruction book and create wonderful action contraptions! Glossy wirebound book details every step of the way. Kit includes every Lego brick, gear, and axle you need (and then some) to make 16 never-before-seen high performance projects! Build a Battle Top Spinner, a Squeezeclaw Grabber, a Supercharged Speedster, a Wall Rocket Racer and much more! Contains super simple, crazy-clear photo instructions
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view | Battery Science 18% OffMake Widgets That Work and Gadgets That Go
Master the real science behind electricity and have a blast doing it. Includes an alkaline battery, of course, a buzzer, a propeller, a light bulb, a motor and other useful doodads—everything you need for all eight hair-raising projects. Toss in a little history, and you've got an activity book so good, it's shocking. For ages 8 and up.
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view | Solar Car Book Tap into that enormous energy source, our sun, with this complete kit for making an amazing solar powered race car that will run forever! Everything included: wheels, axles, motors, wires, and solar cell—no glue, nails, or tape required, although you might want to put an action figure in the driver's seat. Intriguing how-to book is full of illuminating facts on solar power. No batteries needed—just a sunny day!
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view | Building Castles Building Castles is such a unique hands-on history toy (or tool) that everyone who sees it is anxious to start building! This set of 150 building cards in 4 different shapes is notched to fit neatly and securely with every other card, creating a freestanding fortress fantasy! The accompanying book gives easy guidelines for assembling magnificent castles with walls, floors, roofs, towers, spires, and bridges, along with great photos of some of the zillion possibilities to further inspire your architect. There are enough cards in this set to build a small village or one huge towering castle. Since every castle needs a keeper, he's in there too: a nicely painted plastic knight with sword raised ready to strike any invader. Book, building cards, and knight for ages 8 years and up.
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view | Little Tool Box My little boys were crazy over miniature tools. These sturdy tools are made of wood and hard rubber. Includes a saw, hammer, hatchet, screwdriver, wrench and pliers in a metal tool box. For ages 3 and up. Tool box measures about 8 1/2".
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view | Stacking Pegs Sorting, counting, creating patterns, and developing fine motor skills are "get-me-ready-to-learn" activities—and they just think they are having fun with these brightly colored stacking pegs! Pegs nudge into rubber pegboard base and can be stacked securely on top of each other, higher and higher. Virtually indestructible plastic pegs are even safe for 2-year-olds. The pegboard set comes with base and 25 pegs. This is the "fought-over-toy" among toddlers! Age 2 years and older.
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view | Tall Stacker Pegs Building Set What could be more fun than our Stacking Pegs (above)? A stacking peg construction set! This is truly a child's first building set and everyone wants to play with it! Includes 100 pegs, a big 100-hole base mat, plus additional mats to build new levels on. For ages 3 and up. Four times as many pegs and action at an economical price!
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view | Fun Projects for You and the Kids Here's how to build just about anything a kid or parent might dream up! There are ideas for clubhouses and a tepee made of branches and canvas. Build a toy cannon or a Huck Finn-style raft. Simple illustrated plans for swings, covered wagon, rowboat, treasure chest, scooter, pinata, clay castle, toy bin, train, scooter, a jousting log, marble run, spaceship, pirate ship, crossbow, and even a balloon raft big enough for kids to dive off! A fabulous book! Paperback, 96 pages.
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view | Backyard Ballistics Plug your ears! Announcing: the official manual for real boys (and possibly, their dads)! Build potato cannons, paper match rockets, water blast rockets made from plastic soda pop bottles, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, tabletop catapults, and more dynamite devices. A great step-by-step guide for building 13 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive household or hardware store materials. Clear instructions and photographs show just what to do, and explain the physics behind each project. Plus, historical spotlights are included on such incredibles as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, Isaac Newton and others. Don't worry, Mom, this book is very, very safe! Paperback, 169 pages.
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