Product Description

Winner of 5 Educational Toy Awards! Ever seen a square bubble? Build basic 3-D shapes to dip into soap solution and create amazing bubbles. Full color instructions make bubble-sculpting a breeze.72 parts: 12 white nodes, 36 each of 3 lengths blue struts, 12 each of 3 lengths yellow struts and 12 each of 3 lengths red struts, and step-by-step color instructions packed in a convenient plastic jar. Intructions include a bubble recipe using ordinary dishwashing soap (not included). Award Highlights: Winner of the 2005 Parents Choice Award Oppenheim Toy Portfolio: Gold Seal Award 2000 Dr. Toy: Best Vacation Children's Products 1999 Child Magazine: The Year's Top Toys 1999 Family Life Magazine: 20 Great Toys for Under $20 1999 AGES 6 to ADULT. Swallowing danger. Not for children under 3 years of age.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14250 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Zome
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• Creates bubbles shaped lake a cube, a banana, jewwels, even spiral bubbles!!!
• Your child will be entranced---and educated!!
• Awards won: Children's Media Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio
• Awards: Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Child magazine. Yowza!!
• This kit has enough fun for hours. Enjoy Toy!!

Editorial Review
Bubble blowing is elevated to high art and intriguing science with this kit of geometric bubble-making tools. At first glance it's impossible to imagine how this canister of colorful plastic rods and white connector balls can create flowing bubble spirals and 3-D triangular bubbles. But the expertly written and illustrated directions make assembly simple (think old-fashioned Tinker Toys) while covertly teaching a few things about water chemistry (why soapy water creates bubbles) and physics (how design and aerodynamics factor into the shape and flow of a bubble). These Zometool pieces don't have to remain limited to bubble play. Additional kits can be purchased to make larger, more geometrically exotic creations. A recipe for mixing bubble water is included along with a blowing tube. --Gail Hudson

Customer Reviews

Made in USA! and educational
Just wanted to point out this toy is made in the USA. I've been searching for age appropriate toys for my 8 yr old daughter that are made in the USA (and so hopefully not toxic) and preferably not plastic. Well, this is plastic, but it is extremely educational and looks really fun. Most of the "made in the USA" toys (and they aren't many left) are too young for my daughter. It looks like she could enjoy Zome for years. I will be back with a more complete review after we try them out.

ZomeTool Needs to be more generous with pieces
An excellent learning opportunity, but you're paying >$50 for fewer than 50 connectors and nodes, which is somewhat like buying a set of Lincoln logs and discovering ex post facto that there are only 7 logs, half a door and 3 roof tiles. These ZomeTool kits are ALL grossly overpriced and under-provisioned. Even the DNA kit has only enough pieces to make a small fragment of a DNA molecule, not even one complete turn to illustrate appropriately the "spiral staircase" appearance of the molecule - which, after all, is the whole point, isnt it? ZomeTool has priced itself out of the Toy market and failed to market itself appropriately to k-12 schools, which I designed it for 15 years ago.