“These Snap Circuit sets have been recommended to me by other involved parents since my son entered preschool. At first I was resistant to buying one of these circuit sets for him for the reasons below but eventually I decided to order one and then let my son experiment without saying anything just to observe his interest and learning curve. Over the past few months or so, my son has worked through perhaps 50 of the circuits (although, most children could build all the circuits in the manual in a few days if they so desired) and enjoys seeing what the next project will entail. As I have watched him put together the circuits and experiment, I have formed two different opinions about the Snap Circuit sets, with one centered on using the Snap Circuits set to introduce circuits to small children and the other detailing the actual learning of basic circuit principles.With regards to getting children interested in circuits and making simple circuits, I give the Snap Circuits sets five stars. The kits are well laid out and properly labeled. The components are nice and bright and appealing to small minds and eyes. The components are made so they easily snap on to each other and many given circuits can be snapped together in under three minutes or so. The instruction manuals are pretty easy to understand and can be followed perhaps as early as 3 or 4 years old for highly gifted kids (roughly IQ 145”
“Bought it for my 7 year old son who was always trying to dismantle and reassemble by computer or anything with wires. He loves it and has been making projects from the included book. And also experiments with his own combinations. My 3 year old also managed to put together a simple circuit with an LED and a switch.Its well made and parts are big, just right for little fingers to handle and experiment with.For such small kids, does require full adult supervision, which gives me the opportunity to introduce them to basic electronics.All in all a great kit.”
“Love this set! So many great projects for kids. We have had this for at least a year and we maybe did 50-60 projects out of maybe 700+. This would even be great for grownups as some projects like building an FM Radio are pretty cool even for grownups to see how to make.”
“Yeah, so there was a cheap one, and then there was this $90 super-deluxe one, and I'm like screw-it, give me the best. My kids are going to become geniuses. We've had it for 2 years and they've played with it maybe 20 minutes total. Mostly just with the spinny motor thing, which also happens to come with the cheapest $18 version.”
