Learning Resources Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Building Toy Set, STEM Toys, Construction Toys, Gears for Kids, 150 Pieces, Ages 3+, Blue

This is a great set for a little constructor. My 3.5 years old son loves constructing complex stuff with toys therefore to encourage him we have purchased many sets for him (legos, mega blocks, thistle blocks, quercetti tubes) Each offer different fun but this one stands out being the most mobile one. It comes with 95 hard plastic pieces, some are to construct the base plate while another group is to carry the fun to the third dimension (the upright sticks) The rest of the pieces are colorful interdenting gears. Finally it has two handle bits which you need to move the gears round and round. You can put the gears and sticks in various combinations (gears on the side of sticks or sticks on top of gears or gears on top of each other etc.) After some trial and error experience with me (my son and I) we figured out the way they should be aligned to transfer a horizontal rotation to a vertical one. Then my son took over and started building interesting combinations. I am sure he will master it in time. My experience is that the parts are a little stiff which is good for non wobbling steady rotation but bad for the little one to stick them together. So younger children may need some help from the parents. The price ($30) is good considering the number of pieces. Each piece comes to around 30 cents which is lower than many other construction toys. (better than quercetti and lego duplos but slightliy worse than mega blocks.) Besides the storage can is a real good advantage to store it properly after play time. This toy set offers good fun for the little one and helps develop his/her fine motor skills as well as supporting the imagination. Yet it might be difficult to operate or master for younger children. I recommend it to anyone who is after a good toy set at a decent price...

I got these for my 3 year old. He loves them. They let kids be so creative and teach them how to build and turn gears. Highly recommend for creative littles!

AMAZING! This is probably the best toy I’ve ever purchased for my 3 year old. I got this one because it came with the bin for storage, which I absolutely love. My son LOVES this. I’ve never seen him so engaged for SO LONG. He played with this independently for almost 3 hours! He has always loved assembly/disassembly, so this was right up his alley. I may even get more in the future! I was surprised to see what he created all by himself!

We use these for a smart young man in our special needs ministry. We are convinced he's going to be an engineer or architect when he grows up. In the meantime, he gets to use his brain and creativity to put together things with these gears! The adult helpers love playing along with him, too!

I bought this set for my 4 and 2 year old grandchildren knowing that it contained only one size gear. I had also purchased the Gizmos set that has only 82 pieces, so I thought this would expand it nicely. Well, kids are kids and we (and I do mean we, the three of us) wound up playing with this set by itself. What great fun! The 2 year old took to it like a duck to water and was happily building gear layouts that did nothing but turn. But she love it. Turn the crank and all the gears clattered along, amusing her no end. The 4 year old, who has experience with these at school, was more ambitious. It turned into a race between grandson and grandpa to see who could expand our creation in the most adventurous way. By the end, we had constructed quite a machine that clattered and whirred and used up most of the pieces in the bucket. The verdict: this set by itself is massively fun and entertaining for a 4 year old, a 2 year old and their substantially older grandfather. Having just one size of gear is not a drawback. And this set does work well with the expansion sets. Gears! Gears! Gears! is a great concept and I can see that I will be happily expanding our collection over the months to come. I hope the kids interest in it will be as ardent as mine. Jerry

Kiddo approved

My daughter love this toy, took me a min to understand but for my two year old she got it. My kids love it

Fun for 5 year old boy. Helps spark creativity. Durable, easy to use.

Endless hours of play and endless creations to be made. My children love this so much that I had to purchase a second one of these so the creations could be even more intense. Highly recommend for open ended play and imagination/engineering building

El juego es chulo pero mi hijo (acaba de hacer 5 años) empezó a jugar, le gustó pero enseguida se cansó. Solo jugó un rato ese primer día. No le llama mucho de momento. Quizá es un poco aburrido comparado con otros juegos de construcción.

Good quality and easy to assemble.

Máximo entretenimiento para los niños.

Ces engrenages ont permis de faire des ateliers en classe dans des situations très attrayantes pour les enfants. Il faut prévoir au moins deux boîtes de jeux pour une classe. Il faudrait par contre un peu plus de supports de base (seulement 8 dans une boîte) quand il est utilisé comme nous le faisons dans le contexte scolaire. Par contre tout à fait adapté dés 4-5 ans pour jouer avec des adultes en famille.