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In college, I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While there, I learned to appreciate a fine hot sauce...and the difference between red and green chili. I also learned that I prefer flavor intensity over hotness. That's probably why this Build your own Hot Sauce kit caught my attention.
Hand Boilers are looped and twisted glass sculptures containing a colored liquid that will "boil" as heat is transferred from your bare hand. Very cool!
Nebula Plasma Ball - Creates an amazing light show - and responds to touch on the glass sphere.
The cool thing about these window mosaic kits is that you're not limited to the template they give you. You can reuse the tiles over and over again, creating your own designs.
Logic Links are great sequencing puzzles, and they come with colored chips to help visually organize thinking.
When I was a kid, I just couldn't get enough of Mastermind. I never got tired of it. The combination of logic and guessing was too much for me to resist.
Math-terpieces, by Greg Tang, combines Art and Math in charming rhymes and puzzles. How could I not love it!? The puzzles are based around some of my favorite modern art pieces including April Showers (by Renoir) and The Starry Night (by van Gogh).
If you're looking gifts for a grade-shooler, you could get a few of Mr Tang's math-picture books. They're all fantastic!
A Remainder Of One, by Elinor Pinczes and Bonnie Mackain. This is a really fun little book, and painlessly teaches about remainders. How can you loose when you combine cute marching bugs and math?!