disclosure: we were given this product for the purpose of review
Last Saturday we were invited to attend a Blogger Event in Watford, hosted by the lovely team at Junior Scholars. At the end of the event, we were offered a game to try at home. We selected the Design and Drill Activity Center.
The Design and Drill Activity Center is aimed at children from 3 – 7 years. Perfect for a DIY loving boy who will be 4 this December.
My son had really enjoyed playing with a Peg Board at the Bloggers Event at Junior Scholars, and as he loves Drilling, I thought this Design & Drill Activity Center would really appeal to him.
The Design and Drill Activity Center consists of an Activity Board with 100 holes, a battery-operated drill (you will need 3 x AA batteries as these are not included), 3 different drill bits, 120 brightly coloured bolts in red, yellow, blue, green and purple, a wrench and 10 double-sided activity cards to give your youngster plenty of inspiration.
As soon as we got home on Saturday, he wanted to get this out of the box and start having fun. We didn’t have any batteries, so after a quick walk to our local Tesco, the batteries were fitted and away he went!
He has been playing with this all week, most of the time he’s preferred to ‘free style’. But we’ve talked about colours, we’ve counted bolts and spaces on the board, we’ve made a butterfly from one of the activity cards, and I’ve made letters and numbers. I can see endless possibilities with this set.
My son can easily change the drill bits on the power drill and there is a manual screwdriver option too. The only issue we’ve had with this product is that on our power drill the ‘forward’ and reverse’ switches are labelled incorrectly. Not a major problem, just confused us to start with.
Sometimes he uses the drill to fix the bolts, sometimes his hands, so it’s great for his manual dexterity. He can easily undo the bolts manually or by using the wrench.
The set is easily packed away. Both the activity cards and bolts/drills are supplied in thick plastic resealable bags, and everything fits neatly back into the outer box at the end of playtime. The plastic components are made of durable plastic so I’m confident that we won’t have to deal with any broken parts.
We’d give the Design and Drill Activity Center from Junior Scholars, a big thumbs up.
oh I never spotted this one in the shop, it looks like a great toy especially with the drill!
It’s great, lots of play potential before even thinking about using the design cards
I remember something like this when I was little
He’s had lots of fun with it, I remember the peg boards – loved those
I reckon N would love this.
He’s got a push drill and a pick up truck that you can drill all the sides/doors/roof on and off that was one of my brother’s toys when he was a child. He loves it, although it’s quite hard work for someone his age. So I reckon he’d love this one. Might put it on his birthday/Christmas list for other people to check out.
I think he would enjoy it, and you can use it for numbers and counting as he gets bigger too.
This looks great fun, and just the thing to get boys thinking creatively!
Exactly – impressed!
What a fantastic toy. I know a little DIY obsessed boy too.
It’s a bit different, and a next step on from the Peg Boards which he was playing with at the event
Very cool. Sadly I think my boys would mainly use it as a gun!
Oh dear! We’ve avoided guns so far, but sure that phase is around the corner.
That looks really good. It is very different from anything I have seen in normal toy shops and great that it is educational at the same time as being great fun!
Monkey loves it
This is very interesting toy!
Monkey’s had loads of fun with it