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Magnifying Station


Magnifying Station
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Brand: Natural Playgrounds Company
Toxicity: child friendly wood preservative
Age Appropriateness: all ages
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This brand new, science learning element is designed to help children understand and better connect with nature.

The indestructible magnifying glass gives kids 5x magnification. That means that whatever they hold under the glass will be enlarged 5 times!! so they see everything in great detail!

They’ll be able to see the small veins in a leaf, the hairs on spiders’ legs, cobweb strands, particles of sand that’ll look like small pebbles, the cells in their own skin, essentially everything with a fresh eye.

The reason we designed a cantilever arm is so kids can put big things under it. Compare this fabulous feature to other magnifiers, all of which offer a very limited viewing area that children can’t even get their hands under!

Don’t delay! Get this inexpensive, fabulous science tool immediately, and watch your children be amazed as they run all over the playground finding different things to investigate.

You might need more than one :))

The Magnifying Station can be installed into the ground, or if you want, you can purchase just the glass mounted in the arm so you can use it inside or outside whenever the occasion warrants.

The instrument is made for outdoor use.

Easy installation instructions included!

NOTE: As with any type of magnifying lens (binocular, reading glasses, old bottle bottom, etc), this magnifying glass has a focal length (this one is ~2”) which concentrates light. Light is made up of photons, or tiny particles of energy, so if the sun’s light is concentrated on a small area, it can get get very hot!

We all tried this when we were kids! I remember having this real cheap magnifying glass, and it was fun to concentrate the sun’s energy on one point to see what would happen. It felt like a prick on my skin, or you could burn a hole through a leaf, or ... :)

It‘s also possible that as the Earth turns, and the sun’s position changes, vegetation under the magnifying station may suffer from too much intense heat, so you may want to place a piece of cardboard over the lens (that can easily be removed by kids when they want to use the Magnifier), or slide an old sock over the arm to cover the lens, etc.

Or you could try placing the Magnifier in a shady place...