Our baby, Ember, got a toy for Christmas that plays music and blows out air which makes various things spin around. She enjoys it - especially the music and will stay with it for several minutes. My boys (ages 5 and 3 1/2), on the other hand, spent two hours with it yesterday.
They examined it for awhile trying to figure out how it all worked and what they could do with it and then they started experimenting. Using the little plastic heads of their lego figures they would toss them in to the "air track" (the part where plastic balls spin around when they toy is set up normally)to see how many they could make spin, what would happen when they tossed them in as a big group or individually, how to make them go faster and so on. They were so engrossed that there was very little talk between them. I looked in on them several times to see what they could be doing with the baby toy for so long and was surprised and impressed with what I saw. Voila! A science lesson and they did it all themselves!
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