Learning ResourcesGears! Gears! Gears! Starter Building Set, Puzzle, Early STEM Toys, Gears Toys for Kids, 60 Pieces, Ages 3+

Our, then, 18 month old son found himself magnetically pulled towards this set at a local museum's discovery area. We got his his own set at 20/21 months of age, and for MONTHS now, he's playing with them almost daily. We've had this product for about 5 months now, and both my husband and I consider this set to be one of the best toys we've bought for him.We started him out with chains of orange and green pieces pre assembled (by us) so that he'd learn how to put the gears into the little pegs. Eventually we started making the process harder for him by making smaller preassembled pieces (e.g. shorter chains first then eventually just orange and green piece-pairs preassembled). After 5 months of use, now even if we leave them all completely disassembled, our son seems to be able to put the pieces together to create whatever it is he wants. Just the other day he proudly showed us a "double bus" (i.e., double decker bus) --- two rows 3 gears all connected together.He still isn't able to 100% push all of the pieces tightly together, but even then (surprisingly enough) the pieces don't just fall apart. Yes, they do stay together better when t hey are tightly pushed in, but this toy has been seemingly designed with children who naturally are weaker in strength and dexterity in mind.It's great. I would recommend this toy to anyone who is interested in hearing me rave about it.

Uses the child’s imagination

My preschooler made this on his own. These gears are super engaging and the whole family enjoys them!

And so did her dad!! Once she got the hang of it, putting together was easy enough. She seemed fascinated with fitting them together, removing one, repeat. I try to only buy toys that need imagination and a little hand/mind work. Will have to see how her interest holds up over time. The single crank seemed a little flimsy and harder to snap in. Hope it holds up to a 4 y.o. trying to fit it on. Actually would be nice to have a 2nd one.

This was a gift for my nephew’s 3rd birthday. I don’t have a picture of him playing with the gears, but I do have a rather blurry picture of the packaging. My nephew is struggling a bit to actually connect the gears and prefers to just carry them around and fiddle with them. It’s a good quality toy and he still enjoys the gears, but for a child who has just turned 3 it may be a little hard to get the hang of.

& so did I! We opened and we’re able to use right away with minimal instructions. These are rivaling the magnetic tiles in popularity

My nephew LOVED playing with this. He loves wheels so this was the perfect item for him. He knew exactly how to snap the pieces together right out of the box and he is only 2.5 years old. Some times I had to help him press down but he knew how to snap them in himself. We built ours UP and it was a blast. I recommend an expansion pack as this set only comes with four small pieces for the foundation. He wanted to spread them all out. Ordering him an expansion pack. Excited.

My son is a non-verbal autistic and he's 4 years old. But this item because he loves things that spin. They are kind of difficult to put together so he gets frustrated quite easily. What I don't like is that the box is very flimsy and so after a few times of opening and closing its torn all the crap. Maybe he'll get into it as he gets older but for now it just sets in the corner.