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
- Horrible Histories – The Board Game
- 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
- World’s Most Amazing Animals
- Build a Volcano – Experiment Kit
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 Horrible Histories – The Board Game , £19.99 £19.99
Take a journey through our horrible past…
Young history enthusiasts will have loads of fun with this amazing board game, based on the popular book series. Move around the board by answering multiple-choice questions or successfully performing a history-themed action. Brimming with foul facts and terrible trivia, this inventive game will have kids laughing and learning at the same time!
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 , £29.99 £29.99
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 , £10.99 £10.99
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 World’s Most Amazing Animals – Card Set , £12.99 £12.99
Four card games with fascinating facts & 80 cool species!
Four fun card games, all about interesting animals – Endangered, Extreme, Deadly and Freaky animals too! This cool set includes four packs of cards, with 20 animals in each pack – that’s a total of 80 amazing species! Each 12cm card has a high-quality colour image, as well as location, size, lifespan and more. Challenge your friends or test your memory in three cool game modes, learning fascinating facts as you go. Did you know that the Queen Alexandra Butterfly has a whopping 28cm wingspan, or that Blue Whales can live for 100 years? Wow!
10 Build a Volcano – Experiment Kit , £16.99 £16.99
Build & decorate your own volcano, then make it erupt – incredible!
Construct a large plaster volcano and then make it safely erupt with this awesome DIY kit. Build your own functioning model volcano with this classic STEM kit. With the detailed instructions to guide you, use the Plaster of Paris to cover the sturdy base structure, rigging up the eruption mechanism with the tubing provided. Decorate your creation with paints, leave to dry and then combine non-hazardous materials to create a chemical reaction of flowing ‘lava’! An explosive craft project meets awesome science lesson – an absolute blast.
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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