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Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn – with the colourful bouncy planets, children create their first jumping universe!
Simply mix or layer the special colour granules in the planet shapes and place in the water. After just a few minutes, the fantastically patterned jumping balls are ready!
Tips and tricks explain how to pour planetary rings and make a colourful mobile from the dried balls.
Our tip: pick up some granules for later to extend the bouncing fun. Since we have dispensed with additives, the bouncy balls lose their bounce after one to two days.
A fun experiment set from Kosmos to try and discover for children aged 8 and over.
Investigate physics using technology from medieval times! Build six sleek, updated models of catapults, trebuchets, and other medieval launchers. These classic siege weapons from the middle ages also happen to be great tools for teaching physics, including lessons in force, energy, motion, and projectiles. A catapult is a medieval ballistic device that uses mechanical rubber bands and counterweights to fling projectiles — in this case, foam balls — into the air.
The 32-page, full-colour manual has illustrated step-by-step instructions for building the models and conducting the experiments. Build 6 functional models of catapults, crossbows, and other medieval siege weapons that launch foam balls and soft darts
Learn mechanical physics with simple experiments that demonstrate topics like force, energy, motion, and projectiles.
Learn about reactions between solids, liquids, and gases. Discover the colourful effects of acids and bases. Perform astonishing “magic” tricks for your friends. Make fizzy and foamy reactions. Write messages with invisible ink. Investigate metals and salts in electrochemical experiments with a 9-volt battery (not included).
Learn for yourself how chemistry goes far beyond textbooks and laboratories to explain occurrences that happen around us every day.
The Chem 500 48-page, full-colour experiment manual gives simple instructions for setting up and performing each experiment, and then clear explanations of what happened and why.
This kit is ideal for children who are interested in chemistry but who are not yet ready for a more advanced chemistry set. It serves as an excellent introduction to our other chemistry sets.
Keep your secret hiding places safe with this self-build alarm system.
Protect your items with a siren and warning light whilst learning about circuits and electronics.
Extra: The kit also turns into a Morse device to transmit important messages.
Simple step-by-step instructions explain the easy assembly and teach Morse code.
The Kosmos experiment box is a perfect gift for a children’s birthday party and a great way to protect their other presents!
It’s pollen collecting time in the hive! On her first flight, little Betty Bee is carried far away by a strong gust of wind to a distant flower meadow.
To survive the return flight, she needs to fortify herself with delicious flower pollen, but it is guarded by clever creatures that present her with tricky riddles.
What are you waiting for? Crack the riddles and help Betty fly home.
You can hardly believe your luck! First, you discovered a previously unknown island. And now, deep in the jungle, you have found nine mysterious treasure chests! But this is no ordinary island — you have landed on the island of riddles, where the jungle animals are guarding the treasures. You must solve their tricky puzzles before you can open the chests. What are you waiting for? Crack the riddles together and win the treasure!
A riddle adventure in the jungle! Working together or by themselves, children ages six and up can solve various riddles to open mysterious treasure chests.
In each round, six different types of puzzles, which are shown on 36 illustrated, large-format cards, are combined in new ways. Thus, the game is replayable, offering a new gaming experience in each round. A playful introduction to get young players started in the EXIT: The Game series.
There is a costume party at Castle Shudderstone – but only the scariest characters are allowed to take part in this monster of all parties. Solve the tricky riddles set by the spooky friends and help put together Frankengirl Vicky’s fabulous costume!
What are you waiting for? Solve these spooky riddles together!
Difficulty Level: Kids!
The circus is in town! But something’s amiss under the big top. A series of high-profile burglaries have occurred in each of the cities where the circus performed. Coincidence? Or can you find a connection?
What you had planned to be a relaxing walk in the woods suddenly takes a very different turn. As you are walking over a bridge, it unexpectedly disappears behind you and you begin to encounter strange fairy-tale creatures and even stranger puzzles.
What’s going on here — and how are you ever going to find your way out of this enchanted forest again?
Difficulty: 2 of 5
Spells, elixirs, magical powers: you thought your studies at the academy couldn’t get any more exciting. But when a gang of polterbolds — small, pointy-toothed creatures from the netherworld — shows up, chaos breaks out. Can you stop the creatures before they literally tear your academy apart?
- A series of fun and challenging escape-room and mystery-solving games for the home; timed riddle-solving games with imaginary scenarios
- Completely card-based and unplugged — no apps or software needed!
- Requires out-of-the-box thinking … literally! Some components may be marked up, folded, torn, or otherwise manipulated during gameplay
A wonderfully mild morning in the Arctic — only -15° Celsius! You belong to a large research organization, which is divided between several stations. As part of Polar Division IMB-Q-12, you are researching climate change at the North Pole. Everything is strictly secret and you have no idea what the missions of the other teams are. From Polar Division IMB-Q-13, for example, have not seen or heard anything for weeks.
Suddenly the evacuation alarm goes off! You run to the door, but it has already been locked automatically. Through the window you can see your colleagues from the other stations run to the helicopters. You are left alone in the freezing Arctic …
You crawl into an adjacent station via a ventilation shaft. Again, the door is already locked. The lab is devastated and you wonder what happened here. Then you find a notebook and a strange disk. Everything in the room is secured with numbered locks. Then it dawns on you that only if you can figure out all of the codes to unlock the locks in time, can you escape. If not, this will be your bitter (cold) end.
This game can be played only one time because you must markup, fold, and tear the game materials to solve the riddles and escape.
You are crew members on a passenger plane bound for Barbados. You have flown this route countless times already. Of course, you have experienced everything possible (and impossible) on these flights: technical malfunctions, turbulence, tour groups who are also flying to Hamburg, Berlin, London, or Amsterdam in order to visit so-called “escape rooms” there …
But what’s waiting for you today is going to leave everything else in the dust. The weather service already announced that things might get a “little rough,” but now you find yourself in the kind of electrical storm that can easily throw even an experienced crew into a state of panic. The clouds are almost black, flashes of lightning rip through the dark sky, and rain pounds the engines. Suddenly, an alarm light comes on … and another … and you have a queasy feeling that the rest of the flight might become the greatest adventure that you have ever experienced.
Solve the riddles, repair the airplane, and try to land safely!
Difficulty: 2 of 5
Grab your wand! With high-quality magic props and simple illustrated instructions, the 100 magic tricks in this kit can be easily learned, practiced, and mastered — to stun and amaze audiences!
Dots appear and disappear in paddle tricks. Make playing cards come and go and change places. In tricks with money, currency loses value, money doubles in value, and coins disappear from a coin box and then reappear. Coins pass through handkerchiefs, disappear into thin air, and magically stay put when they shouldn’t! Paper money disappears and milk appears out of nowhere in tricks with tubes. A number of tricks involve knots and ropes: Knots in ropes untie themselves, jump from rope to rope, and disappear. A rope passes through solid objects.
A 72-page Magic Silver Edition instruction manual with colour photographs illustrates how the tricks are performed. Video tutorials for the tricks in Magic Silver edition are available online. For one magician, ages 8 and up, and many audience members.
Grow mimosas yourself and test their lightning-fast reactions.
This complete experiments set contains seeds, soil, plant pot and a greenhouse – all you need to grow these clever little plants.
Exciting observations: This clever plant can contract its leaves in seconds with the smallest touch.
This Kosmos experiment box is a great starter set in the world of gardening for children aged 6 and over.
The product instructions are multilingual: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
Ready to shred! A few clicks and Duke is ready to cruise through your room on its skateboard base, using an umbrella and broom to propel itself forward.
+ Fast and easy to build
+ Demonstrates wheels, cams, and motors in action
+ Powered by an electric motor
+ Combine the parts from different ReBotz kits to build your own creations.
Knock, knock, knocking on wooden floors — this wacky walking Pitti ReBotz is pieced together from a tennis racket, hammer, and the rear wheels of a tricycle.
+ Fast and easy to build
+ Demonstrates wheels, slider cranks, and motors in action
+ Powered by an electric motor
+ Combine the parts from different ReBotz kits to build your own creations.