Solar Rover by Toysmith/4M is the winner of the ASTRA Best Toys for Kids 20101 award in the Scientific Play category.
The Solar Rover uses a recycled soda can and solar power to create a fully operational clean energy vehicle, it requires no batteries!
This innovative science toy presents excellent opportunities for entertaining science projects for kids that emphasize valuable lessons about recycling and green energy.
Similarly to the Tin Can Robot, the qualities and attributes of the selected recycled can, make each individual Solar Rover unique, so creativity is also encouraged!
The Solar Rover kit includes everything kids need to engage in a fantastic adventure of environmental-friendly science exploration: easy to understand instructions, and all the necessary parts and pieces, including a solar panel, wiring and a motor.
Kids certainly will be intrigued and fascinated by the fact that sunlight turns into energy, therefore this educational toy is a perfect choice for curious children who enjoy challenges and are looking for mind expanding experiences.
1. The award winning toys selected by The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA), are chosen because they are considered to be engaging, unique, open-ended, fun and safe. For more information visit Astra’s official website at www.astratoy.org.
Sticky Mosaics Heart Box by The Orb Factory Limited Products is the winner of the ASTRA Best Toys for Kids 20101 award in the Creative Arts Play category.
The Sticky Mosaics Heart Box offers easy kids crafts for young decorators. This kit uses a decorate-by-numbers system to allow enjoyable kids craft projects to take place while producing very special self-made treasure boxes.
The heart box with a mirror is a perfect place to store jewelry and the great memories produced while decorating it. This DIY toy box uses over 500 sparkling stickers with jewelry motives.
The top rated toys of the Sticky Mosaic line are great gifts for girls and will delight them regardless of their ages and skill levels.
1.The award winning toys selected by The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA), are chosen because they are considered to be engaging, unique, open-ended, fun and safe. For more information visit Astra’s official website at www.astratoy.org.
Automata are traditional mechanical toys; they offer great opportunities to engage in fascinating DIY toy projects for older children and adults who enjoy mechanisms and assembling machine toys.
Automata are entertaining challenging machines with intricate designs on wood or paper that move with cranks, levers and wooden sticks engineered to produce motion.
The Chinese Dragon snaps its jaws and twists its body when the crank is turned. This toy kit displays how mechanics works and stimulates curiosity for science and technology.
This creative toy kit is packaged with four 8 1/2x 12 cards printed with the model parts, wooden sticks, and complete instructions. Assembly requires tools such as: glue, scissors, craft knife, needle and thread.
The Automata Chinese Dragon is a design by Walter Ruffler, one of Europe’s most accomplished automata designers.
This robotic toy holds a sonic tracking system and uses various sensors to detect and follow a black line. The modern toy uses tracking memory technology to remember the path defined by any line, and red LED flashing lights are used to maintain its course during the journey.
The hyper line tracker is an efficient and fast line navigator robot, ideal for people looking for fun challenging science projects for kids. This science toy will become an adventure of discovery and exploration for the whole family!
HYPER LINE TRACKER robots toys will follow intricate passages designed by your young scientists! By using light emitters, light sensors, circuits, and tracking memory technology, these artificial intelligence bugs seem to have vision of their own.
Challenge yourself, challenge your children, and challenge the robot, the tracker robotic kit is a fantastic child educational toy for future inventors and their parents!
The Knight Invader III is an Educational Electric Kit from OWI Jr. Science Series – Suitable for Ages 9 and Older. This is designed for experimenters with little or no experience in assembling mechanical kits. This kit teaches the basic principles of electricity, gear mechanisms and demonstrates 2 different modes of propulsion. Multi-colored plastic body parts are easy to assemble and disassemble without the use of any tools. Includes: Pre-soldered, low current DC motor and light socket wires. Smooth pulley drive or power gear drive. Battery box and ON-OFF switch. Will also run well via a solar battery (OWI-608 – not included). Electricity experiments involve series and parallel circuits and a 2.2 volt miniature light bulb. Illustrated assembly guide. Parts are included for 1 Car (1) Light Socket and Bulb (1) Motor Rubberbands (4) Battery Contacts. REQUIRES: Assembly and one or two AA Batteries Body Size: 4″” x 2.75″” x 7.87″” / (10cm x 7cm x 20cm).
Jungle Robot is a mysterious robot. One day, you may look up and catch a glimpse of Jungle Robot crossing hand-over-hand high across a string extended from tree to tree in the mist of the jungle air. Another day, you can catch him skipping through the fallen leaves on the ground. A condenser microphone and printed circuit board control your multi-function (walking or climbing) friend. Jungle Robot is an excellent Beginner Series robot. This battery-controlled robot kit can teach the basic principles of robotic sensing and locomotion. It features a pre-assembled printed circuit board, hardware, and mechanical drive system that can be handled by almost anyone from age 10 and up. Only basic hand tools are required for assembly!
The highly-acclaimed, award-winning Soccer Robot by OWI has been totally redesigned to create even more excitement and good old human-robot interaction. A THIRD motor has been added to this (already) awesome robot, which is used to catch and shoot an included ball. Score goal after goal after beautiful goal, right in the comfort of your own living room. The easy-to-follow, step-by-patient-step instructions will help you build it from the ground up, will allow you to get an intricate look at its six operational legs, its retrieving and kicking mechanism, and its wired controller, which activates movement and ball control.
A series of Robot Kits for the future engineer. Build these kits and find out how much fun electronics & mechanics can be! The robot frog moves forward when it detects sound and repeats the following movements sequentially : start (move forward) -> stop -> left turn -> stop -> right turn -> stop. Two sets of gear motors (unassembled). Specifications * dimensions: 90 x 125 x 100mm * power supply: o mechanical: 2 1.5V AA batteries (not included) o electronic: 9V-battery (not included).
Ninja wooden stars are not exactly a clear example of educational wooden toys, but the stars are a great opportunity to start a new project of do-it-yourself toys (DIY toys). Regardless of how we feel as parents about weapon toys, chances are children will figure out a way to turn any stick into a sword or a gun, in order to play with weapons.
New York based artist, Michael Lorenzi, came up with a set of wooden ninja stars that are very attractive to any 5 year old (or older!) martial arts and ancient warrior enthusiast. The ninja stars have soft edges and are not meant to destroy any potential Samurai enemies, but just to provide the fun of an action adventure or pretend play.
Despite the fact that this idea came from an artist, it should not prevent any parent who enjoys working with wood or families looking for an easy project for kids to try and make these Ninja Stars at home. Just use every safety precaution if you get the children involved in the shop, as you would do with any other project.
If you prefer to discourage elements of violence, opt for different themes. Classic wooden toys for example are about the best type of creative toy there is, even simple shapes can provide hours of entertainment for creative children. Basic wooden toys that are homemade, are so much more special then any mass produced toy on the market. They have a different sense of belonging for a child.
Decorate wooden blocks if your carpentry skills are not advanced or you don’t have the tools. This can be a better alternative if you don’t want to involve saws in a project with children. Pieces of spare wood exist everywhere, just look around and have fun exploring your family’s ingenuity!
Half toys half kids art projects, the designer toys are a fantastic way to introduce kids craft projects with fun themes. We are not talking about make your own toys building kind of projects here, the blank toys are more like a paint your own doll.
DIY toys associated with vinyl toy concept are very popular among urban artist and toy collectors alike. But blank toys are not reserved to them exclusively. This can be the source of easy projects for kids with an artistic touch everybody in the family can enjoy. And at the end you have a unique toy and an art piece, the pure expression of creative children.
Designer toys are modern toys, they just appeared in the 1990s created by designers and artist. Illustration and graphic design are important aspects of their origins and relevance.
One important characteristic blank toys have is the limited edition factor. Although the common material it’s been traditionally vinyl, due to environmental implication other materials are gaining popularity, such as clear vinyl, resin, wood, metal and plush among others.
Some toy kits can be expensive, it’s not like giving your children a piece of paper and crayons, but there are different choices for beginners, and this is definitely a good activity to encourage if you have interest in offering your children a creative artistic outlet, and who wouldn’t?
Maybe some serious hobby can come out of the DIY toy – designer toy exploration. Design toys can become a passion, I can spend hours just looking at the galleries online. A finished collectible toy can be sold for a lot of money. Who knows? Maybe one day someone will be searching for your own kids vinyl figures.
So, dolls collectible items taken serious as modern art expression, who would of thought so? Isn’t it great? Another aspect of creative toys making a difference in children’s lives.
Solar Rover by Toysmith/4M is the winner of the ASTRA Best Toys for Kids 20101 award in the Scientific Play category.
Sticky Mosaics Heart Box by The Orb Factory Limited Products is the winner of the 
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