Features:

  • BUILD WORKING CIRCUITS Build over 300 different electronics circuit projects with 60+ electronic components
  • SUPPORTS a vigorous STEM / STEAM curriculum
  • NO SOLDERING - NO TOOLS - IT'S A SNAP ~ Snap Modules require no tools and ensure solid electrical connections
  • LEARN BY DOING Build working models of a burglar alarm, a radio, and much, much more. More than 300 exciting projects in all with included 60+ snap together parts. Includes everything found in SC-100
  • DESIGN electrical circuits using the knowledge gained from building over 300 circuits found in the illustrated instruction manual
  • AWARDS ~ Snap Circuits brand kits have received the following awards: The National Parenting Center-Seal of Approval, Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products, Dr Toy Best Educational Products, STEM Approved
  • SNAP CIRCUITS provide students ages 8+ with hands-on experience building models of working electrical circuits
  • CIRCUITSAFE TECHNOLOGY Is only found in Snap Circuits brand electronics education kits. ~ SNAP CIRCUITS, ELECTRONICS EXPLORATION KIT, CIRCUITSAFE, LEARN BY DOING, and ELENCO are trademarks of Elenco Electronics, Inc.
Fun kit instructs on what to do, but not why

Bought these for my nephew's 9th birthday. He likes to do the Lego kits but I wanted something with more "cause and effect". These snap circuits are great! He and his 6 year old sister have a blast following the diagram and seeing what they can create. I'm sure there's some educational benefit but I don't see how much you can really learn about electricity by playing with the circuits without supplemental content. It might spark an interest in learning about how electricity works though.

and they LOVE it. I feel it increase critical thinking and ...

I bought this for my 6 and 7 year old daughters, and they LOVE it. I feel it increase critical thinking and meta cognition. It is a great way to get kids detached from screens and engaged in real play. I have to admit that i spoil my daughters, and buy them a lot of toys; nonetheless, this is a top 5 buy. It is a quality product and built to last. I also enjoy playing with it. I would surely purchase again. Can't recommend enough for parents who want their kids to be thinkers as opposed to screen zombies.

Perfect for Inventive and Creative Kids!

Got this for my 9 year old for Christmas and he wasn't too excited at first because it looks like a unique Lego-type (but knock off) building set. That's before he cracked the book and read about all the crazy cool electronic gadgets you can create using these pieces. He sat down and without any assistance, dude created a working AM radio!!! That blew all our minds but really lit a spark in his creative juices. Thank you for another activity that uses the mind and a bit of creativity! Shipping was prompt and overall buying process was painless.

Fun for the entire family

Fun for the entire family, We got this for my 11yr old daughter and she loves making all the different things work. You can even create your own circuits work that are not in the book. Very safe to use as well.

Fun, educational,great value - Highly Recommend!!!

This is a great toy for a great value (I paid $42 for it). As a high school physics teacher, I am usually very disappointed in "science toys" and their quality and price and rarely ever buy them for my kids. This toy delivers everything it says. I can't say enough about how pleased I am with this toy. My 10 year old easily spent about 8 hours with this the first two days. I was amazed at the science she was learning about circuits while having lots of fun (she periodically would ask me to explain how/why something worked but that information was not needed to play with the toy). I think for kids that enjoy building things (think Legos) this is the perfect toy. My 7 yr old also enjoyed playing with it and could follow the directions all on her own. Great educational toy. So glad I went with this toy over Little Bits (which look great but are very expensive). I think it would be great for schools as well that are thinking of purchasing these to teach about circuits (appropriate for elementary and middle school students).

OMG! The best present for a grandson and ham radio grandpop!

This is the best present I could imagine. My 5 year old grandson and I spent hours building one project after another that night - basic lights with switches, alarms with different volumes etc. from the first section. When I came to drive him to pre-school, I discovered he'd gotten his papa up at 6AM to build more. That night after school, we built an AM radio and the wireless microphone. Too bad one must disassemble one project to build another. The organization, color coding and numbering is wonderful, and encourages putting all pieces back into their plastic wells before beginning the next project. This 76 year old ham radio operator remembers from the 1950s when we stripped down old radios for their components and took days - weeks - to build a radio from the ARRL handbook or Popular Electronics. I can't recommend this enough! It is great!

Great buy for a 7 year-old interested in Legos but could use something more engaging!

I am a nanny and bought this for my 7 year old boy that is somewhat interested in robotics. He's really into Legos and building things but I wanted something that he could use more than just the one time that you typically build a Lego set before it sits around. I had a hard time deciding whether to buy this or the junior circuit set because this says it's for ages 8 and up but I'm glad I got this one! I'm also fresh out of high school so I've recently used circuit sets in my physics class and dreaded them so I was worried as to whether or not he would enjoy this enough as a toy. I was way off base! We spent 10 hours just playing with this toy alone and barely made a dent in all of the 300+ projects available to build! At 19 I even genuinely enjoyed all of the projects we built! The instructions are fairly clear to build each of the projects but I think reading the paragraphs in order to understand the science behind each one went a little over his head at 7. Even after he read the paragraphs, he didn't understand most of them. Overall I think it was a great buy and he absolutely loved it! This will definitely keep him busy for a long time and it will be hard to get bored of with all of the options available!

Love this Awesome Circuits Set

I bought this for my eight year old son for Christmas. Both his father and I were electronics technicians in the Navy and I thought it would be a fun way to share some of our experience with him. We hadn't had a chance to play with it yet, and I was busy today in my office. My son was in his room playing and came in to my office to show me how he had created a fan circuit by reading the manual. Sure enough, once we put in the batteries and closed the switch, it worked like a charm. This is a great little kit for use one on one or in group play.

Great for children and learning.

My daughter loves these! I guess she uses these at her school for her stem class and just had to have them.. there are so many different circuit designs and projects in the two books it comes with to keep your child entertained forever. She is taught valuable lessons as well as keeping her off of her iPad. She learns to read instructions every time, about electrical currents, how to read diagrams, and how to take care of smal objects. Like I said earlier there are hundreds of different circuit plans to keep your child busy for a long time. I am very happy with this purchase and the fact that my daughter likes to do technical things like this. Great for our daddy daughter time because it is challenging and we are able to complete objectives together.

A nearly perfect STEMtoy for young electronics explorers.

This toy was appropriate for a bright 8 year old’s birthday. He was able to read and follow the directions and build the first six projects without help in about 10-15 minutes each. We talked about each one briefly and I read and summarized the lesson he was supposed to learn. He is very satisfied as well. So far only the “whistle switch” has proven to be a problem. Even with new batteries it did not respond to a whistle, hand clap or the spoken word as expected. Only tapping the switch with a finger nail made to respond. No adjustments to the switch appear to be possible. Weeks later we are perhaps 30 experiments into the 300 and all seems well. The toy comes recommended by me as a great STEM toy, perhaps one of the best concepts I have seen, and well executed in manufacturing. I hope the snaps holding circuit elements together remain working well after many uses. This is much better than hard soldering wires onto thumb tacks like when I was a kid, plus no burned fingers or cold solder joints. The 2 small booklets of experiments seem well thought out and the ideas build on one another, like a well designed class. I’d like to see a better, more detailed explanation of the more complex components and perhaps a schematic of each. I could probably find some of this info on line, but why should I have to research someone else’s product?

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