Scientific Explorer's My 1St Science Kit - The Science of Color

by Scientific Explorer

Product Features

• Winner of Creative Child Magazine's Seal of Excellence Award and Parents' Choice Approved Award
• Learn to make crystals in brilliant colors
• Explore color by mixing primary colors to discover how to make secondary colors
• Create a rainbow in a test tube
• Learn to set up a color science laboratory

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 10.2 x 3 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008ZCDO
• Item model number: A210
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 8 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,938 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #32 in Toys & Games > Learning & Education > Science > Chemistry
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The perfect science introduction for younger kids. Set up a color mixing lab, perform 10 science experiments, grow gobs of crystals in 24 different hues, and capture a rainbow in a tube. This award-winning kit is lots of fun for your budding scientists!

Product Description

Winner of Creative Child Magazine's Seal of Excellence Award and Parents' Choice Approved Award.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

144 of 147 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bad product, yet turned out good..., January 8, 2005

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Carolyn "Homeschool Book Fanatic" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Scientific Explorer's My 1St Science Kit - The Science of Color (Toy)

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!

66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sooo hard to rate!, September 12, 2005

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bubba "redballoon" (brush prairie, wa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Scientific Explorer's My 1St Science Kit - The Science of Color (Toy)

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.

60 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You don't need this to do the science, December 30, 2004

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D. Myers "bibliophile" (Salinas, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scientific Explorer's My 1St Science Kit - The Science of Color (Toy)

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.