If you follow my blog regularly, you know that I’m a fan of Learning Resources’ educational tools and games – they’re brilliant! Today I’m featuring their new Primary Science Magnet Set:
This is science for preschoolers at its finest! The Primary Science Magnet set is perfect for teaching kids all about the fascinating attributes of magnets. It has 14 pieces and includes 10 double-sided activity cards featuring cool experiments for kids to try. They demonstrate all the things magnets can do and introduce vocabulary like “attract” and “repel”. Here’s everything you get with this set:
- Large horseshoe magnet
- Magnetic post
- Four ring (donut-shaped) magnets
- Two bar magnets
- Two magnetic bugs
- One magnetic maze
- Two cars
- String
- Ten activity cards
The activity cards are great! They are sturdy, laminated, and there are so many activities we can do now with my daughter (3 1/2). This is the front of one of the activity cards, with all the tools you need for a particular activity:
Then the back of the card tells you what to do step-by-step:
The first thing we did was play with the magnetic bugs on the maze. Emma held the big horseshoe under the maze board (which by the way is made of a very strong plastic) and moved the bugs through the maze. She was fascinated and really enjoyed this activity.
Then we played around with the magnetic donuts and post. It truly is amazing that magnets repel like this, to the point that these donuts appear to be floating in mid air of their own accord!
The cars are actually not magnetic themselves – you can snap the magnetic bars into them. One side of the magnetic bar attracts and the other repels (each side is a different color so you can tell which is which), so that when you put the cars together they either stick together like one is towing the other, or one spins out while the other approaches.
This was probably my favorite activity – you tie the string to one donut and lay the other three donuts down on a flat surface in a triangle formation. The magnet at the end of the string begins to move and spin in a circle by itself!
Final Thoughts: We have had a blast with this set – it’s fun and very educational! All of the pieces are sturdy, and I love that everything is so brightly colored. My daughter couldn’t wait to play with it! This set is recommended for ages 4-12, but I think a particularly bright and curious 3-year-old like mine can benefit as well. :) This is one of those things that people of all ages can enjoy experimenting with! Who doesn’t love a magnet, after all?
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You can purchase the Primary Science Magnet Set from Learning Resources or Amazon.com – it retails for $29.99.
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Disclosure: The product reviewed in this post has been provided to my family for us to keep in exchange for an honest review. The opinions I have given are mine and may differ from others but were not influenced by the company or the free product provided.
85 Responses to Learning Resources Primary Science Magnet Set {Our Experience}
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I like the sentence building sets.
I like their Jumbo Endangered Animals
New Sprouts™ Serve it! My very own dish set
I like the Healthy Helpings™ MyPlate Activity Mat
I’m also interested in the Sentence Buildings!
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I like the plant and animal cell magnet sets!
I like the Primary Science Mix & Measure Set
The Healthy Helpings My Plate game looks neat!
I like the sentence building.
I really like the Primary Science Mix & Measure Set and Catch ‘n’ View.
Oh my gosh, Lily would love this. We went to the Discovery center (science museum) this weekend and got a few magnets and have been trying stuff, but this gives much better ideas then I can come up with.
Lily says she’d like the Primary Science Mix & Measure Set
I’d love to have Go To Press- a grammar game!
The Science Mix & Measure Set is pretty awesome!
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Catch and View
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The jumbo endangered animals would go well with our jumbo farm animals set.
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Excellent way fr the kids to learn about the magnetic attributes by playing and trying them out on their own.
I love the multiplication master.
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I like the Jumbo Endangered Animals.
Catch ‘n’ View
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Attribute Apples
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The science measuring kit looks pretty cool
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I like the Jumbo Endangered Animals!
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Howie’s Owie looks absolutely adorable!!!
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I like the Primary Science Mix & Measure Set.
The Primary Science Mix and Measure Set!
I like the Super Strong Magnetic Clips, Set of 4. Thanks.
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My boys would like the Primary Science Mix & Measure Set.
I like the Primary Science Mix & Measure Set
I like the Candy Construction set.
I also like the Healthy Helpings™ MyPlate Activity Mat.
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this would do quite well for us: Farmer’s Market Color Sorting Set
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The New Sprouts Cure it!: My very own doctor set looks like fun!
I like the Primary Science Mix and Measure Set
I like the Attribute Apples
I love the mix and measure kit, great for little hands.
The mix and measure set and the safety glasses will help my little scientist in training!
Primary Science Mix & Measure Set
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I also like the Real World Geometric Shapes™
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I love their Jumbo Endangered Animals.
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The Real World Geometric Shapes™ looks fantastic!
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I really like the Attribute Apples.
I like the sentence buildings
The sentence buildings
The sentence buildings. My nephew would love to play with them!
These look like really good tools for making learning AND teaching parts of science fun! I home school 5 grandkids from ages 5 to 14 (almost), and I know ALL of them would enjoy working with this set!
I really enjoy your blog, Lindsey, and I have purchased some of the items you have reviewed for us, just because you shared your knowledge and experience with them. They have all been winners! Thank you!
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Primary Science Mix & Measure Set is cute!!
The activity cards really make this a learning set – really neat!
Sentence Buildings
I like the Primary Science Safety Glasses
I like the Jumbo Endangered Animals
I would like the mutiplication game.
Sentence buildings looks cute!
I like the jumbo animals playsets.
I like the Alpha Bug Step N Spell.
i like the bean bags alphabet game to help my grandson out
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I like the Catch n’ View.
I like the sentence buildings
I love the primary mix and measure set. So cute and practical.
Sentence Buildings
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I would really like to have the Fraction Tower® Cubes: Fraction Set for my daughter.
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Where is Howie’s Owie?™
Do the cars actually move? Do their wheels spin?
Thank you.