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Build Your Own Microscope

Build Your Own Microscope

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See the World Up Close. Build It. Explore It. Love It. 🔬🌿✨

Overview

Curious kids and mini scientists will love exploring the outdoors with the Build Your Own Microscope Kit — an award-winning, STEM-packed adventure they can build themselves! With clever slot-together parts (no glue, no mess!) and real working lenses, this eco-friendly kit turns nature walks, garden discoveries and rainy-day play into hands-on science fun. 🥼🔍

Winner of multiple awards, this brilliant microscope is easy to assemble, fun to use, and packed with real scientific features your young explorer will be proud to master.


Why You’ll Love It 😄

  • Build a real working microscope – Slot together the parts, add the lenses and mirror, and you’re ready to discover a whole new world.
  • 30x magnification – Perfect for mini-beasts, leaves, feathers, rocks, shells and all the treasures kids collect.
  • Focusing & zoom dials – Adjust clarity and detail like a real scientist.
  • Use a phone light for extra illumination 💡 – Shine through the built-in periscope for even clearer images.
  • Take it outside! – Detach the magnifier tube to turn it into a handheld field explorer.
  • STEM learning made fun – A brilliant way to build curiosity, observation skills and scientific thinking.
  • Eco-friendly by design – Made from sustainable cardboard with minimal plastics.

Skills Developed 🛠️ (STEM Boost!)

  • Scientific observation
  • Critical thinking
  • Fine motor skills
  • Problem solving
  • Light, lenses & magnification understanding
  • Curiosity and outdoor exploration

What’s in the Box 📦

  • 54 press-out cardboard parts
  • 1 Mylar mirror
  • 2 high-quality acrylic lenses
  • 3 specimen trays
  • Focusing dial
  • Built-in periscope system
  • Detachable handheld magnifier
  • Full step-by-step instructions
  • Plastic-free, recyclable packaging

Key Features

  • Age: 8+
  • Magnification: 30x
  • Assembly: Slot-together; no glue required
  • Material: High-quality sustainable cardboard
  • Designed in the UK 🇬🇧
  • Supports STEAM learning
  • Mess-free, family-friendly construction

Build, Explore, Discover 🔍🌱

From creepy crawlies to colourful leaves to tiny textures you’ve never noticed before, the Build Your Own Microscope opens up a fascinating world of close-up discovery. Whether indoors or outdoors, it turns every day into a science adventure.

Build it. Explore with it. See the world in a whole new way.
Science has never been this fun!

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