Newton’s Lab Wind Energy Kit keeps teens busy

*AD – the item in this review was gifted to our household for this post. All opinions, as always, are our own.

When it comes to keeping Kai, the basically teenager, busy during the summer holiday, he often does not want to play with any games or toys his younger siblings have. Maybe it’s an age thing, maybe it’s a being a boy thing, but either way, he’s a bit tricky to find things for him to do. With that said, Kai really loves science kits! A new, and more challenging science kit then he has previously come across has now made it’s way into our post box, called Newton’s Lab. We got the Newton’s Lab Wind Energy Kit, which has you creating a little house that lights up using wind power.

The entire kit feels really echo friendly, with the majority of it being made of cardboard. To start off creating the Newton’s Lab Wind Energy Kit, Kai punched out a few of the smaller holes inside the cardboard base, then took a look at the IKEA styled instructions. All of the instructions were picture based, so you didn’t need to read, and reminded me a lot of IKEA, which feels familiar. Kai could see what pieces he needed and then gather them up, before pushing them together.

Many of the pieces in Newton’s Lab Wind Energy Kit just sort of popped together, creating little bases for the light and a windmill, but others like the house required a bit of help. There were stickers in the kit that allowed you to stick the window coverings on and then stick together the house itself, so it was sturdy, as you put it in the holes within the base. Kai did need a second hand with putting together the house; someone to hold the walls in place while he then put the stickers on.

Once the entire house and windmill is made Kai was able to blow at the windmill to light up the house, something he was super impressed by and really thought was cool. He then took his little project into each room of the house to see which room allowed his light to shine the best. Newton’s Lab Wind Energy Kit is recommended for ages 14 and up; Kai is currently 12, so he did need a little help here and there, but otherwise did the entire kit just fine. In the end, he is really proud of what he made and found it to be a really cool little project. There were plenty of extra stickers if he got some of them stuck in the wrong places, and the pieces all made sense, so it feels like a really good and well thought out kit!

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