Matériel d'apprentissage: Explorateurs de la tige: Motioneering

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We got this set in a stem motion activity bag from our library. It is so fun! After "how to" helping/instructions on day one of play, it has kept my 5 year old independently entertained for hours of creative stem exploration fun. He's built according to the included plans, and has made his own creations. Love it!

Included in this 56 piece kit... 12 long posts, 20 short posts, 8 E-connectors, 2 three point connectors, 6 two point connectors, 1 boulder, 1 catapult launcher, 5 six point connectors and a guide to build 8 different machines. This kit was appealing just from the box with my girls as soon as they saw it they got started. The brilliant guide shows you what pieces you need for each build. It gives you a define section and an enhance section about using the leftover pieces from the kit to enhance the build to make it better or adapt it. My girls found a couple of the pieces tricky to put together at first but with a little use it got easier. I love that this kit doesn't come with step by step instructions for the builds as it encourages the kids to really look at the picture and figure out what pieces go where I felt this challenged my girls enough but they still found it easy enough, fun and exciting. The pictures themselves show the whole machine in a way that the girls could easily build them themselves or discuss together the next step. This is so fun that it's not just a one and done type of play and build my girls have come back again and again to build a build in the guide or just going with what they come up with themselves. The kit is big enough where its not overwhelming for the kids with too many pieces but for me personally I would like to see an option for bigger pack or expansion pack as my girls love to build together aswell as separately in saying that while one was building a machine the other had to think hard about how to use the leftover parts to make something of their own until it was their turn for building a machine.