Thames & Kosmos 2022 Product Catalog

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SWEET CANDY PERFUME LAB 550039 AGES 8+ MSRP: $29.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 10 PIECE COUNT: 23 MANUAL PAGES: 12

YUMMY RAINBOW LIP BALM LAB 550040 AGES 8+ MSRP: $29.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 10 PIECE COUNT: 27 MANUAL PAGES: 16

ORBITING SOLAR SYSTEM 550037 AGES 6+ CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 1 PIECE COUNT: 59 MANUAL PAGES: 8

MSRP: $29.95

FUN & EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY KITS

GENETICS & DNA LAB 665007 AGES 10+ MSRP: $31.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 20 PIECE COUNT: 40 MANUAL PAGES: 48

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS 665005 AGES 8+ MSRP: $34.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 35 PIECE COUNT: 37 MANUAL PAGES: 48

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$30-40

FUN & EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY KITS

Cocoa-Mint Dream? Citrus Creamsicle? What will your designer perfume creation be? Follow your nose through the candy shop as you explore the science and art of making perfumes. Build your personalized fragrances, choosing from the essences of peppermint, chocolate, vanilla, lemon, cinnamon, and cotton candy. Decorate your workstation and perfume bottles with the included stickers. Learn about how your nose and brain work together to perceive smells. The full-color manual is packed with information about the biology of smell, the chemistry of scents, and the history of perfumes.

Mix up a rainbow of mouth-wateringly delicious lip balms and lip glosses. Experiment with a vibrant spectrum of colors and flavors to create your own personalized lip products. The ingredients include cosmetics-grade red, blue, and yellow dyes; lip-smacking strawberry, banana, and grape flavors; shimmering fluid for the lip gloss; as well as the base oils and waxes for the balms and glosses. Decorate with the included stickers. Explore the biology of skin and lips and the chemistry of lip balms and glosses. A full-color manual guides you through the process of making lip balms and glosses, and provides detailed information about the science behind these products. Thoroughly tested to the highest standards for cosmetic and toy safety. Build a mechanical model of the solar system including the sun and eight planets (also known as an orrery), wind it up, and watch the planets revolve around the sun. Assemble using snap-together plastic parts to learn how the gears and wind-up mechanism work to spin the model. Detail each planet with colorful, realistic-looking printed planet graphics. Discover how a special type of gear called a planetary gear is used to simulate the mesmerizing motion of the solar system. Learn about the order of the planets, their relative sizes, their rates of revolution around the sun, and other planetary facts. Bonus: There’s a built-in expansion slot in case the mysterious Planet Nine is discovered! This kit includes full-color step-bystep illustrated assembly instructions.

Head into the lab for an in-depth investigation of genetics, the branch of biology focused on heredity and variation in organisms, and DNA, the acid that holds the blueprints for life. See genetic material with your own eyes as you isolate the DNA from a tomato in a test tube. Investigate inheritance and learn how traits are passed down from parents to children. Learn about dominant and recessive genes and play inheritance games to determine how traits will be expressed.

Astonish yourself with optical illusions and amazing visual phenomena as you explore human perception and the physics of light. Experiment with light and the color spectrum by building a color wheel, a fiber optic peacock, and diffraction glasses. Learn how the eye and a camera are similar and how they are different. Build a camera obscura and pinhole glasses. Experiment with spatial vision and depth perception with 3D glasses and an Ames room model.


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