Nine-year-old children love learning, which is why educational toys make brilliant gifts! With some help from our expert panel of boys and girls, we’ve compiled the ultimate list of the best educational toys for 9-year-olds. From brainy board games and sensational STEM kits to cool creativity sets, here are our top picks!
Best STEM Toys for Nine-Year-Olds:
- Hydraulic Cyborg Hand
- Guess in 10 – Countries of the World
- Splendid Spelling – Key Stage 1 & 2
- Go Genius World – Play & Learn
- Engenius Contraptions – Perpetual Marble Run
- Solar Explorer 6 in 1 Building Kit
- The Human Body – Science Snippets
- Fun Tape Measure – Filled with Silly Facts
- Solar Bots Cosmic Explorers – STEM Kit
- Rank & Roll – 100 Amazing Animals
1 Hydraulic Cyborg Hand , £36.99 £36.99
Build a cool functional 40cm cyborg hand
Build your own water powered, wearable hand – no batteries required! Explore engineering with this innovative 40cm robot hand that uses hydraulic power to simulate the movements of the human hand. The 40-page full-colour manual shows you how to assemble the 203 pieces, allowing you to learn how hydraulic power works, with piston tubes filled with water. Worn over your hand, the lightweight, 4-fingered Cyborg Hand is easily manipulated to grip objects, fitting both right-handed and left-handed users. Have fun challenging yourself to pick up and use a variety of items like bottles, pencils and small items or even shake hands with your friends! An advanced build perfect for any budding engineer – hands-on!
2 Guess in 10 – Countries of the World , £9.99 £9.99
Use clever clues & questions to figure out country cards – great fun!
The ultimate country guessing game, Guess in 10 is perfect for fun on the go. Start your opponent off with some buzzwords, then answer up to ten yes or no questions, using the cards to guide you. Is the country an island? Do they use the Euro? If the guesser is stuck, they can use a Clue card to receive some extra info. It’s geography homework made fun!
3 Splendid Spelling – Roald Dahl’s Matilda , £9.99 £9.99
Trio of Fun Word Games For Little Bookworms
From the wonderful world of Roald Dahl, three fun word games. Entertaining set of card games based on the author’s famous Matilda, who has a passion for reading. Use the 100 letter cards in three fun games to practice your spelling – collect letters to make simple words, create a word grid or layer them up. Play games against the timer and collect Bookworm cards to prove you’re the brainiest of the bunch! Specially designed for Key Stage 1 and 2, great for word building whilst having fun, just like Matilda!
4 Go Genius World – Geography Game , £21.99 £21.99
Learn about capitals, countries, tallest mountains & saltiest seas!
Fun board game with questions in three levels to learn about our wonderful world. From Albania to Zimbabwe, this entertaining board game for 2-4 players is the educational trip of a lifetime. Travel around the board answering multiple choice questions, on everything from capitals and countries to the tallest mountains and saltiest seas! Can you name the longest river in the world? Or which country Komodo dragons come from? The more you play, the more you learn, as you compete for the most points to earn a well deserved genius stamp in your game passport. Who’s the brightest?!
5 Engenius Contraptions – Perpetual Marble Run , £24.99 £24.99
Fun with perpetual motion
Put those engineering skills to the test with this awesome marble run! Just assemble the laser-cut plywood sheets to build the run, then add the electric motor. Once the construction is complete, watch in awe as the marbles are raised to the top of the lift, descend the spiral and the zig-zag track, then move back up the spiral to start again, in perpetual motion. So much fun you’ll forget that it’s educational!
6 Solar Explorer 6 in 1 Kit – Easy Build , £12.99 £12.99
Learn about solar power building fun mini robots that move!
This fun kit allows you to build your very own little robots powered by just the sun. A fun introduction to solar power and renewable energy, this easy to build kit has six moving robots powered by a solar panel. Everything is in the kit to build the different models, from a walking robot dog and solar plane to a fun boat or solar car. Or come up with your own design if you feel really creative, all powered up by simply sitting on the window-sill. Entertaining mini project to learn whilst having fun.
7 The Human Body – Science Snippets , £12.99 £12.99
Fun facts, from goosebumps & freckles
Clever set answers all your questions about the human body, with more than 70 flashcards. What is earwax made of? How come our fingers get wrinkly in the tub? Why do we have a belly button? All this and more in this fascinating scientific set! Simply unroll the box to reveal three sections packed with more than 70 illustrated fact cards. Explore the what, why and how of the human body in simple kid-friendly terms, from goosebumps to baby teeth. Did you know that the butt muscle is the biggest in the body? Brilliant stuff!
8 Fun Tape Measure – Filled with Silly Facts , £7.99 £7.99
Shows the size of the largest diamond to how high a pig can jump!
This entertaining double-sided tape measure includes both centimetres and inches, as well as sixty incredible scientific facts. Find out how big your things are compared to everything else – have you ever wondered whether the Mona Lisa would fit on your wall, how big an Oscar is or how high a pig can jump? Did you know that a snail can travel 39 inches in one hour?
9 Solar Bots Cosmic Explorers – STEM Kit , £24.99 £24.99
Fun 123 piece kit to build robots that walk, crawl, roll & spin.
Build robots that walk, crawl, roll & spin, all powered by the sun. Assemble the main robot, Helio, complete with solar panel, electric motor and gear wheel. Then construct four cosmic exploration vehicles to help Helio travel around, from a walking bot and bug bot that crawls on six legs to an orbiting platform and a trike bot on wheels.
10 Rank & Roll – 100 Amazing Animals , £12.99 £12.99
Challenge to remember fun facts – is a kangaroo faster than a horse?
In this entertaining game for 2-4 players, compare and remember the stats of 100 animals! Which animal is fastest – a horse or a kangaroo? Which lives longest – a walrus or a woodpecker? Memorise the most statistics and race around the board to win! Each card features a fascinating animal fact…hamsters can use their cheeks as flotation devices…a lion’s heels don’t touch the ground when it walks… how wild is that? Brilliant fun!
Wicked Uncle have scoured the world to find a really useful selection of fun, unusual and different presents for children. We test every potential present before it goes on our website – we build the robot kits, paint the fairies, doodle with the pens, play the games and yes, we even wear the t-shirt! We can gift wrap your presents, send them direct with a handwritten birthday or Xmas card and even send you a birthday reminder every year. How brilliant is that?
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