Dinosaur Gummy Candy Lab
Dinosaur Gummy Candy Lab promises a bevy of sweet candy treats to make at home. Tasty Triceratops! Scrumptious Stegosaurus! Toothsome Pterodactyl! Were we able to whip up our own delicious dinosaur shaped gummies easily? Read on to find out.
What’s better than learning how to make real candy that you can actually eat? Dinosaur Gummy Candy Lab is not only a great STEM activity is perfect for when the kids need to come inside and take a break from the sweltering summer heart Let’s take a look at the official toy trailer from Thames & Kosmos.
Dinosaur Gummy Candy Lab Description:
As you prepare these yummy treats, you’ll investigate the chemistry related to candy making and explore fundamental STEM concepts such as measurements, conversions, temperature reading, phases of matter, the scientific properties of natural polymers, and more. The kit includes all the food ingredients needed to whip up a gelatin mixture, which you pour into the included mold to form eight different dino shapes: Tyrannosaurus rex, Pterodactyl, Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Plesiosaur, and Brachiosaurus. A specially designed recipe and custom tooling help ensure successful results and great-tasting gummies in two yummy flavors: purple mixed berry and green watermelon. You can even add citric acid to make sour gummies! Make up to 72 gummies with the ingredients and tools included!
Dinosaur Gummy Lab Kit Details:
- Make up to 72 delicious dinosaur-shaped gummy candies!
- Kit includes all food ingredients needed to make a gelatin mixture.
- Two delicious flavors: mixed berry (purple) and watermelon (green).
- Citric acid to make sour gummies.
- 8 different dino shape molds: T. rex, Pterodactyl, Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Plesiosaur, and Brachiosaurus.
- Detailed 16 page instruction and safety guide included.
Our Review:
I love that the Dinosaur Gummy Lab allows kids to dabble in the chemistry of candy making. During the candy making process kids actually work with fundamental STEM concepts. Without even realizing it they get to explore measurements, conversions, phases of matter and more! This is learning as it was meant to be, hands on and stress free. What a fun way to create and expand the mind at the same time.
These are not your typical gummys. Each dinosaur is a nice size, about an inch and wind up tasting quite good if you follow the directions carefully. Speaking of directions, the Dino lab is meant for children 6+ but parental supervision will still be necessary for older kids in my experience, especially for the more advanced experiments.
Unfortunately we were not big fans of the favors. Our finished gummies looked pretty cool but did not taste like the described flavors of watermelon and mixed berry. Hopefully the flavors can be refined in the next version of the lab.
I’m getting ready to go to Sweet Suite 2024 and I can’t wait to stop by and tell Thames & Kosmos how much we enjoyed this STEM activity.
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