Cubelets Curiosity Set

Cubelets Curiosity Set creates excitement! As a Digital Teacher Librarian, I had a blast giving the Curiosity Set to some 3rd graders and watching them work and play. They were excited and proud as they discovered the capabilities of the different cubes, and even more so when they realized they can add to their creations with Legos. They challenged each other and themselves as they explored. When asked how the set might help them learn, they talked about time to explore, try, fail, and try again - the building blocks of authentic learning. While an excellent introduction to the Cubelets world, this set will need to be supplemented with additional cubes in order to support more kids and further exploration. Learning should be fun, and Cubelets make it so!

Great learning and play product for kids, if only it had more functionality. We should have bought the larger set. If only there were 2 battery blocks included too.

My son is completely obsessed with robots, so after reading the reviews and watching numerous YouTube videos, I decided to get this for him. Long story short, it's not quite what I was expecting.He's currently 5 (almost 6), and is great with Lego, building blocks, electronic games, etc. He's also quite an artist, and he even developed a phishing scheme to try to crack the family iPad password (thankfully I caught on to what he was up to). But he simply doesn't grok the Cubelets, no matter how many times I explain, demonstrate, help him etc. Granted, this could be just him. But even after nearly a year of playing around with them, he still just doesn't quite get the "act, think, sense" aspects.I honestly don't see how the average 5-year-old could pick up the Cubelets and start creating robots with various functions. I saw many reviews (either on Amazon or other places), that claimed kids will naturally start learning how to "code" the robots. It's just not true, at least not in our case. I really think claiming that this set is appropriate for 4+ is misleading.Another disappointing thing is that even with the larger number of blocks in the Curiosity set, they provide a disappointingly small number of possible combinations. Sure, you can put them together in different configurations, but at the end of the day, you really can't DO a whole lot of different things. Yes, you can make some robots that spin or move, light up, etc. You have a motion sensor, light sensor, etc. etc. On paper it sounds like it would provide "hours of entertainment/learning." In reality, that's not the case.The final kicker is that this is REALLY not the kind of thing you can just give to your child and expect them to figure out and use to entertain themselves. It requires adult guidance, at least for the younger ones. So don't expect this to keep your kids occupied while you paint the house. They really seem like something more appropriate for a classroom setting than a toy box.I'll close by saying I realize that our experience could be unique to us. That said, I suspect most children around my son's age would be similar. Hopefully when he gets another year or two of brain development, he'll start to unlock what these blocks are really supposed to be capable of.

I returned this product. My 7-year-old was using Cubelets at school, so I decided to get her a set for home. They look very nice, and the industrial design is probably why the price is so high. But they just don't do very much. My daughter opened the box, gave me a quick demo of what she learned in school, and then put the box back on the shelf and never looked at it again. There is no way that the $399 pre-christmas or $284 post-christmas price tag was in any way justified.

My sons that are grade school age love these! They are easy to learn and keep them off a screen and they have to be creative in order to use them! Their school also has these in their STEM room.