Learning Resources Playground Engineering & Design STEM Set

This is so cute!! Fun play time while teaching engineering. They can learn creativity.

I got this for my 5 year old son for Christmas, along with a couple of other sets of the Learning Resources Engineering sets. The kid loves to build things and he is extremely creative. He doesn't really build the items on the sets, but that's okay. The things he creates are pretty amazing. The sets do work well together, as well as separately, which is pretty cool.The colors are bright and fun and are easy for young hands to manipulate. While the 5 year old is at school, my 2 1/2 year old also tries to build with the sets. He can't do much else than stick the legs into the bases, but he has fun with it.I also like to build with this set. I don't know why, but it's fun.So, it's fun all around!! Buy just one set, or several, but it's good STEM for young kiddos.

Children can learn a lot about problem solving and cause and effect by tinkering with STEM kits. I love this one and so does my five year old.She loves Legos but I wanted to add a little something new to her selections. Some of these pieces don’t mesh as easily as I would like. She has needed help with attaching some of the pieces. Other pieces don’t hold well and will frustrate her when building her playground. In a perfect world, the pieces would just work well together, but I also like that she has to figure out alternatives along the way.These kits are a little pricey especially considering the feel of the plastic. It doesn’t seem super durable long term or in rough hands. Again, this isn’t problematic for me because I like that it teaches patience and being careful with materials.I recommend for all little engineers!

When I first opened this set I was impressed with the individual instruction cards. As a therapist I will be using this for clients and it will be great to give the instructions to one portion of the playground at a time. I also really like how there is a question on each card that encourages thought about the structure he built or a better way to build it. Ex. Which way would provide the most shade? I haven't used it with my clients yet but I messed around with it my self and the prices fit together pretty easily and the instructions are easy to follow. You do need to be 5+ for this, I can't wait for my son to be old enough to play, his inquisitive little brain will love it!

We just received the Learning Resources Engineer Set in the mail a few days ago and have had a blast playing with all the interchangeable pieces. We thought at first that we would be able to create a full playground (my daughter wanted her little Shopkins to play on it), but in actuality we were only able to create small individual parts of the playground. I would definitely recommend this for kids over 5 as it does require using problem solving, logic & basic engineering practices. The cardboard box is great for storage, and the cards have challenges and some thought provoking questions on them to help kids get creative. Definitely a great purchase - hours of entertainment!

Parts do not fit together well. As a result, very unstable construction. The idea is great, but my son was getting very frustrated with how everything kept falling apart as he built it, because as I said, pieces do not fit well. Once kids build, they want to play with it, but this playground is not gonna survive even most gentle child. Not enough pieces to build everything shown on a picture, which is also a point of frustration for a younger child. Would not recommend.

The challenge cards show the pieces to use to build the structures and a STEAM question to get the kids thinking and problem-solving. If there was a sectioned storage box to keep all the different pieces this would greatly add to the value of the set I hope learning resources would design one soon I would buy this set againUpdate learning resources sent me a whole new set when I told them my set had a missing piece great customer service

This product looked so fun but it’s quite disappointing. There are no instructions so you aren’t sure how to build the items pictured. Also, the pieces do not stay together and fall apart so easily. My kids got very frustrated and stopped playing with it after 5 minutes.