Skullduggery Eyewitness Kit Humanworks Casting Kit
Understand your own body--literally--with this engrossing skeleton-building kit that combines art and science in a profoundly imaginative way. A perfect gift for the child stuck at home with a broken bone, the educational Humanworks skeleton will engage and excite your exo-biologist. The kit contains casting instruments that allow children to pour liquid into molds and create solid bone models. After about two hours of drying time, newly created bones can be painted, equipped with magnets, and assembled on a refrigerator. An 11-page instruction booklet intelligently answers questions about bones and skeletons in a way that is easy to understand. There is even a glossary explaining tough words like "metacarpal" and "phalange."  The Eyewitness bookHuman Bodywould make a good companion to the kit.--Sally James