VIAHART Brain Flakes - Educational, Creative Building Toy, Tested for Children's Safety, 500 Interlocking Plastic Discs, with Storage Jar. A great STEM Toy for Boys and Girls

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I asked who’d made it, and my teenager laughed and told me she’d Googled how to build it while we were out. Each month, you’ll receive 5 fully-planned STEM project guides along with worksheets and instructions for how to make them fun and engaging for kids ages 3-19. I’ve only had to clean them once, and it was after my daughter dragged the container to dinner at a sushi restaurant and played with them at the table while eating salty edamame. Once I did, she dumped the pieces out on the table and got to work building giant towers and oddly shaped houses. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site.

These dimensions and weight do not include the packaging | Watch our video to learn more about this product: youtube. These flat, colorful discs snap together, making it possible to build just about anything and learn basic engineering concepts while tinkering.

There are so many STEM toys available on the market today, but some of our favorites are Brainflakes. The EMIDO Building Blocks Kids Educational Building Discs Set is built on the same premise as Brain Flakes, but there are a few differences. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. If you liked this edible STEM activity, you are going to love the STEM Made Easy Digital Subscription. The pieces snap together by notches so kids can build while developing spatial intelligence and thinking.

It’s not a sophisticated packaging system, but these plastic connector pieces don’t need anything fancy; they can be thrown back into the container once playtime is over, and the plastic handle made it easy to transport them from place to place. Develops spatial intelligence and thinking | A great solo or collaborative group activity for school classrooms, Makerspaces, Montessori, daycares, libraries, or home! Teaching my 8-year-old daughter about science is important, and I’m always trying to find new ways to introduce STEM concepts to her without losing her attention. The other day, the kids spend an entire afternoon building different Pokemon (yes, my kids are into Pokemon – ahh the memories! VIAHART Brain Flakes 500 Piece Interlocking Plastic Disc Set | A Creative and Educational Alternative to Building Blocks | Tested for Children's Safety | A Great STEM Toy for Both Boys and Girls!There are quite a few cheap knockoffs floating around out there, but the quality between those and these is like night and day. A few of the kids were harder than others to decide on, but 3-year-old Michael was particularly tough. Leicht boasts over a decade of journalism experience, and beyond her work at The Spruce, also serves as an editor at DGO Mag, a Durango, Colorado-based magazine. Brain Flakes® brand discs from VIAHART are a new construction toy which teaches both boys and girls spatial thinking and lets their imaginations run wild! She stacked and snapped disc after disc to try and create cats, cars, and just about everything in between.