Features:

  • Different every time you build, this versatile, interconnecting gear set fosters imagination and provides opportunities to experiment with simple mechanics and science
  • Supports STEM by introducing children to sorting, grouping, counting, designing, constructing, and putting physics into play with spinning gear movement. Learning gets more intricate as children’s abilities advance
  • Boost fine motor skills while promoting reasoning and problem solving as children create moving experiments with spinning, colorful action
  • 100-piece set includes 46 Colorful gears (blue, green, orange, red, purple), 26 square pillars, 21 six-way axles, 6 interlocking bases, 1 crank handle, and activity guide
  • Great for ages 3+
These are lots of fun

I got these for our two and a half year old but they're more suited for our seven year old and adults hahaha. Seriously you'll have just as much fun messing with these as the kids. I need to get some more. These are educational and a blast!

Great toy for Pre-Schoolers

We bought this for our 4- and 2- year old granddaughters. They enjoyed playing with it, especially with an adult to help them. I think it's just beyond their abilities to play alone, but they will easily grow into it if they don't lose the pieces. It is a toy that needs to be played with and then put away --- lots of pieces. The quality of the plastic is good. Nice and sturdy. And of course, it's a fun educational toy. All the best! I wish that there had been more than one turner. This limits the toy to one structure at a time. Often our granddaughter wanted to play alongside an adult, but she wanted to make her own creation. Two or more turners would facilitate this.

Special Ed Pre-K teach and mom

As a pre-K teacher and a mom to a 2 & 4 year old I give this toy my highest rating. They are super durable. I’ve had sets in my classroom for too many years to remember and just now have noticed one or two of the green base pieces tounges snapping off. They have been thrown and grabbed and rugged and pulled and still work perfectly. Even the pieces missing the tounge still snap together and work just fine because each side has two tounges or two grooves. The base pieces are tough for 3 and 4 year olds to get together and take a part but not impossible. They just require a little strategy. Pros DURABLE easy to use regardless of a child’s cognitive or play level Kids with more creativity and older kids can build upwards while younger children & children with needs can build across Easy to clean up Great fine motor practice Excellent teaching executive functioning and planning Cons Wish there were more activity sets like the “school house” set I had in a previous classroom

It's like a dancing garden

Such a fun toy. if your child loves puzzles, they will love this. Mine loves the girly colors and when she's playing with it, I notice that she is intently watching how everything moves and is really thinking about WHY everything is moving. With all the fun colors, it looks like a dancing garden when it gets going. I would say that this also helps with motor skills as well since they have to put the gears into the slots and manipulate the pieces. On the down side, this toy is LOUD once it gets going. My 6 year old was saying how loud it is and with so many pieces, I would have loved if they would have included some kinds of a zipper bag to store all the pieces in. One of the gears arrived broken when we got it, but besides that, I would definitely recommend this toy.

Huge Hit with my 4 year old nephew!

I brought this for my nephew to play with on a family trip this past weekend and it was a huge hit with my nephew and also his dad! He needed a little help getting some of the pieces together, but loved building and changing the patterns. Everyone liked watching when the crank was turned and the whole thing moved. My 1 year old tried to get in on the phone and thought the turning gears were very cool too. Some of the connector pieces are a little small if you have little ones running around, but the gears are big enough not to be a choking hazard. I love that you can get more sets to work together and make a bigger monstrosity.

Entertainment and Educational All In One Package.

I've purchased a couple sets as gifts. EVERYONE loves them. My only 'mistake' was buying one set "Frustration Free Packaging". This means a plain boring box. No pictures on the outside. Fine if you are not giving as a gift. IF you want a box with pictures on the outside, choose standard packaging.

Excellent product

My son got this set for his 4 year old birthday. We've now had them about 6 months and he plays with them almost every day. On Saturday mornings it is the one toy he will play with for an hour before waking the house up :). He loves to build cars, towers, tractors, etc with them. He surprises me with his creativity and ability to make all types of 'machines' out of these gears. They connect easily and when in place all rotate together. I am looking at getting him a larger pack for Christmas to add to these. Even my 2-year-old little girl enjoys building with these. We have boxes of duplo legos that they'll often push aside for these gears. My husband loves to build with my kids with them. I recommend!

IN DEPTH REVIEW - Learning resources gears

Hi everyone, as a parent we are always looking to buy toys and sometimes toys that are not meant just for playing but those that would also help your child learn a new skill. I bought these gears activity with the same thougt. The box and pack is pretty adequate. It mainly consists of 4 parts , a gear, a small connector , a large connector and connectors that let you connect the gears on the sides or vertical of the building tower you make. It also comes with 1 small handle which will help you rotate the gears. The whole concept is your kid connects these gears to work on tandem such that when they rotate that 1 mother gear to which you connect the handle knob all the gears connected to each other mover as well. My kid who is almost 3 years old loved the concept, he was quick to understand the concept and was already joining all the gears towers ans connectors within minutes. He loves to see all the gears move together after he has fixed a number of them. Pros: fun activity a big change from building blocks, it helps kids understand the concept of cause and action. I have a 9 month old and i feel safe around these as the pieces are not literally small for her to swallow or get stuck, ofcouse she is being watched around this but she is fine.good quality looks good. Cons: once the kid gets a hang of the concept there is nothing much he can do, i mean its not like he can get innovative and create something, the whole concept revolves around joining the gears and rotating them. Once my kid did it a couple of times he was kind of bored and was like all it does is spins. Also there are a ton of gears, like with any other toy because it has so many pieces it makes a mess and clean up takes time. All in all a good product , nothing extraordinary but good to have change, im sure your kid will love it. Regards, Nick Hill A bad review is like baking the perfect cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it!

Intro to Gears and how they work

I got this for my grand kids last Christmas. The kids enjoyed putting it together, turning the crank, and watching everything turn, or redesigning what did not turn. I like the idea that the kids are being introduced to the principles of simple machines-gears. When the kids set it aside, the parents played with it for quite a while.

Great for creativity at ANY age!

My daughter is 7 years old and she was a little skeptical when she read the "3 and up" verbiage on the box as the suggested age range. She watched her bother play with his set and decided that perhaps she could have fun with her set as well. She opened it up and went right to work. This set does not come with any plans or suggested building instructions, so it is all about free imagination and creativity. After playing with this for about 30 minutes, I had to pry her away to get ready for bed. When I asked her if she still thought it was "too babyish" for her, she smiled and said "I LOVE it mom!" She has been building and rebuilding with it ever since!

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