Rigamajig Jr Spinning Tops allow experimenting with inertia, symmetry, and motion. Used with Rigamajig Junior to build different combinations of shapes and colors, then spin to create optical illusions, patterns, and sounds.
Designed by Cas Holman, Rigamajig is a building system of carefully shaped wooden planks, wheels, pulleys, nuts, bolts and rope designed for collaborative makers.
Rigamajig inspires group STEM problem solving and play in three dimensions to explore mechanics, engineering and structure. (Age 3+)
Features
Contains 70 parts
Manufactured in Vietnam of high-quality wood.
Spinning Tops must be used with Rigamajig Junior and are not compatible with Rigamajig Basic Builder, Workshops, or Add-On Kits.
Complies with ASTM and Consumer Product Safety Testing for Children’s Toys, US, Canada and EU.
Benefits of Rigamajig
Promotes playful, cooperative learning
Rigamajig creates playful, cooperative learning communities, through means of collaborative building and child-directed play.The kit enables easily accessible, cognitively challenging play opportunities for children of any age in any environment.
Enhances STEM and STEAM learning
Rigamajig fits with principles of STEM and STEAM education, which promote focus on science, technology, engineering, math, and art through hands-on, inquiry-based learning to provide children opportunities for creativity, innovation, collaboration, and critical thinking.
Develops problem-solving skills
Children simultaneously practice problem solving while designing and playing with their technological inventions. They create and work with simple machines (e.g. pulleys, ramps, and screws) as a means to create new, more complex machines.
Encourages cognitive thinking and investigations
Play, fantasy, and imagination are all part of children's everyday cognitive thinking and investigations. It is when these are all manifested in a single activity that children invest and fully engage in problem solving and amazing feats of creativity.
