SMARTLAB Toys Squishy Human Body with 21 Removable Body Parts with Anatomy Book

Great gift for the curious mind! Good size and very sturdy! Bought this for a 7 year old and she loves it!

Great toy for kids

Great for any age! Both of my kids had a blast playing with this. They didn’t even realize they were learning while playing with it! Great quality but some pieces can be easily lost.

Good and accurate model for curious kids to explore the layers of organs in a body by taking a toy apart and putting it back together. Initital 'wow' factor was diminished by a great colorful big picture on the box and a considerably 'smaller' (by comparison) model that came out of it. I wish the size of the figure was significantly bigger, but I knew the size limitations by reading the reviews when I ordered it. The biggest value of this toy for us was educational, that a kid CAN explore inside the layers of a body, organize the body parts on the body chart, and put them back into the model. There was LOTS of help required from adult, and at times only the adult could 'work' the toy and the kid got dis-interested if a step took too long. I am afraid the toy won't last long, as few prongs (that hold the hard parts) bent and and an organ or two tore/ripped off during the first use. The shell/skin and organs seemed definitely to small for adult hands, and sometimes to 'loose/fragile' and tiny in child's hands also. Kid are not gentle with toys in general, but they needed extra reminders of the 'squishy' factor of our internal parts. This actually was an added educational bonus for us, that it took patience and skill to put it back together (easier to take it out). Also, we could say that we need to be 'kind' and 'gentle' with/to our bodies, because they are soft and squishy inside and sometimes even 'breakable'. The kid seemed not to be 'grossed out' by the way the organs feel, and for that I am giving one extra star for the 'fun' factor with respect to the 3 star durability. If you play it "right", there is 'extra value' included in the package about the fragility of human life/body in general. Great begginer toy if you want to 'demonstrate' something following along the included Human Body book or any other 'HB' book you might have. This was our overarching goal --- to have 'hands on' model to go along with what you read about in books at this stage of kid develpment when they are curious about their bodies. Overall it was fun to 'touch' and experience something that otherwise it is only flat picture in the book. It is yet to be determined how many 'full use' (in and out) cycles we can get from it :)

This is a fantastic tool for a homeschool unit on the human body. I use it with my 6 and 4 year olds, but it is probably intended for 8-10 year olds. (I'm a physician trying to homeschool, and so my unit on the human body is probably far from typical!)If you don't homeschool, this is still worth having. Use it with your kids to review what they are covering in their lessons. (I believe that's technically called 'afterschooling'!) I don't think it would work well in a classroom, though. Way too small; it needs to be used with maybe 2-3 kids max at a time.I get it out for every lesson of our human body study. We look at the system we are studying, and it is a tremendous visual aid to understand the physiology.For example: Today we talked about respiration. The diaphragm can be tricky to explain, so I used this model. With the forceps I pushed the diaphragm piece up and down while making exaggerated sound effects. "What happens to the lungs when I push this up? What about if it pulls down? Where does the air go?" and they were able to see clearly how the diaphragm pulls air in and pushes it out. Never would've gotten that from a textbook.I also use this model for a Charlotte Mason style of narration. I can take all of the pieces out, and as I put them back in place ask "Hand me the stomach. Which piece is it? What does it do?" The youngest child gets the first shot, and then the older can add what he knows. For review I can hand my son the forceps and ask him to "tell me what happens to food." He can trace the path of an apple through the model and explain what happens in each spot.Visual aids are a huge asset when learning anything, but especially something that can be hard for a child to visualize, such as the inside of a body. Illustrations in a book are helpful, but this goes several steps beyond. A line sketch of "my digestive system" is good, but too abstract for a young child to really make any meaningful connection with the actual human body. This model is that connecting piece between books and the physical world.Just a warning: this is fairly delicate. Keep away from the littles. It needs to be kept put away and gotten out for school. Let it get mixed in with other toys and kiss your kidneys goodbye!If you are doing a human body unit, I also really like How Your Body Works, Grades 1-3 and First Encyclopedia of the Human Body (First Encyclopedias). Good luck!

my six-year-old grandson loves this toy. He is learning about all the organs and bones in human body. It is educational and entertaining a well-made product that is educational and entertaining for a child.