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Snap Circuits Jr. is the electronics kit where the parts snap onto a grid like clothing snaps, so an eight-year-old builds a working circuit from the picture in the book without a soldering iron or a shock. The 30 pieces make more than a hundred projects: a flashing light, a siren, a fan that lifts off, a doorbell. Then they start inventing their own.
It is the Christmas gift for a kid who takes things apart, the birthday present from the engineer uncle, and the kit teachers recommend when a parent asks what to buy instead of a tablet.
Ages 8 and up, two AA batteries, and the bigger Snap Circuits sets accept every piece from this one. Around thirty dollars for the first kit that explains electricity.
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