Would prefer it to not be "hair" 'makeup" girlish oriented, but rather something challenging for her mind. I am her Uncle, and would like something maybe aimed at DIY outside of Lego if you know what I mean. Budget is small, maybe 39.99? Can move either way if needed

Advice, much needed as a 36 y/o male with no kids

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There are also kits for learning about electricity for kids of that age. For making a light switch or making a doorbell buzzer and simple things like that.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Now that sounds amazing, any kits or companies that sell something she may like

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    SnapCircuits!

    They have a bunch of different kits, there’s like a music one that’ll even let you make a circuit that plays music from a phone.

    They are absolutely a WONDERFUL introduction to electricity for a kid.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i had those as a kid, with clamp boards where you could plug in resistors, transistors, switches, diodes, a spool and in later editions even simple IC's, speakers, lamps, a potentionmeter and so on; was powered by a 9V battery and you could build a radio, flipflop's, alarm circuits and so on; i spent countless hours with that, was called Elektro Technik by Kosmos. They still have similar stuff on https://store.thamesandkosmos.com/ from what i saw, even if there aren't as many expansions as i had, but instead there's more robotics stuff (which is probably more fun for kids anyways)

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