10 Best Meccano Sets & Toys for Kids in 2024

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It comes with a 6-volt battery compartment that can also be built to provide power to their creations and turn them into real, working models that can spin, lift, and race. Use the provided design manual or create your own, either way, your kiddo can enjoy days of entertainment and education with this huge kit!

Educational Value

This kit encourages STEM learning that promotes the use of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills in play. Real tools are included to provide a practical, hands-on learning experience that will teach your little one how to properly utilize construction tools and instructions. Follow along with the immense design booklet to follow one of 25 different available designs that can encourage reading comprehension skills as well as direction sequencing. The builds themselves are excellent ways to develop fine motor skills for younger children as well.

Entertainment Value

The sense of satisfaction from completing a model is also ideal for positively reinforcing good behavior and building self-esteem. Metal pieces, dozens of build designs, and hundreds of parts, this kit supplies all that your child could possibly need to encourage freeform creativity and get them to turn their screens off.

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There is the 8Ball mode in which he will answer yes and no questions and say cute phrases. In the Dance phase, he will show you his moves if there is music close by. In the last mode, Socket does whatever he wants, whether it is whistling, moving about, passing gas, laughing or something else unique to his spirit. This robot does require batteries that are not included, so those must be purchased separately.

Educational Value

Programming and assembly have never been so fun as with this Meccano kit for Socket. He will teach kids how to follow directions, improve their fine motor skills, and increase their cognitive talents, all while they put him together. It is then that the real fun begins – when he comes alive!

Entertainment Value

This robot will interact with another robot of the same kind if they are nearby. They can talk and dance with each other to entertain kids for hours. This little guy has quite a personality! Seems like a real guy that likes to laugh, dance, whistle, and joke around. It is astonishing that it comes from a robot that you put together yourself.

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Standing just under four feet, this robot pal is pretty sizable, making him all the more impressive! Kids will love getting to build the robot and learn the programming skills necessary to make him do all his cool little tricks. He looks friendly, moves around on motorized feet, and is articulated at the head and arms for more realistic movement.

Educational Value

Geared towards children ages ten and up, this STEM building kit combines logic skills, problem-solving, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and computer programming. It has ten motors and stands pretty tall once constructed, making it a hit with kids everywhere.

Entertainment Value

Who doesn’t want their own robot pal? This little robo-buddy features Learned Intelligence Movement (LIM), can communicate with smart devices and is equipped with all kinds of awesome party tricks. Program the Erector XL to follow your voice commands and to learn as you both grow together.

Design

This kit includes over 70 different parts and tools as well as instructions to build 1 of 2 unique stunt plane models. This model is designed to provide an age-appropriate challenge to your child, so some reading skills and patience are required.

Educational Value

This kit can also be helpful in providing an outlet for special needs or autistic children who may have the artistic and mechanical skills needed to create but struggle with attention span or mobility issues. This kit allows your little builder to get a hands-on learning experience as they work with real metal pieces such as nuts, bolts, and wheels using the included tools. Hands-on building activities such as erector sets are an ideal way to develop hand-eye coordination as well as develop fine motor skills in young children. The complex instructions encourage reading comprehension and sequencing. Designed to stimulate your child’s interest in STEM-based teachings, this model kit can introduce the major principles of science, technology, engineering, and math in an engaging way that also develops their persistence and resilience.

Entertainment Value

This kit can provide your little one with hours of enjoyable creativity without the use of screens or technology and give them an authentic sense of accomplishment once the plane is complete.

Design

Tools are included to put everything in place, and the pieces are made of real metal. The wheels are genuine wheels also. This is just one of the twenty-five models of roadsters that the company produces, so if your kids like this one, then a few of the others would be a welcomed toy for a possible collection.

Educational Value

Kids learn basic STEM principles by working with and putting into place the over 443 parts to form perfect roadsters. The doors really open and close, plus to make the cars jet forward, a pull on the handle is all it takes. Most of these Meccano sets only makes one model type. This one gives kids the option to take it apart time and time again to recreate different cars.

Entertainment Value

Children can invent their own cars with this set or make any one of the five suggested models in the instructions. Their imaginations can wild thinking up new combinations for the many parts.

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This kit allows your child to build their own robot, which they can then program themselves, and play with! It’s fully operational, 4 feet tall, and features life-like articulated limbs powered by 10 motors, so the movement is hyper-realistic. Simply assemble your robot, download the free app from Google Play or the Apple Store, and start your set up!

Educational Value

This personalized robot teaches children the basic concepts of mechanical engineering as well as computer engineering and programming. The robot has lots of fun functions kids can activate via programming and the app. The construction component also helps enhance hand-eye coordination and motor skills.

Entertainment Value

Your robot can learn to mimic your movements, can be controlled via the app in a ragdoll function, and will recognize your voice when responding to more than 100 pre-programmed commands. It can remember names, birthdays, fun facts, jokes, and knows how to start a conversation. With 1,188 total parts, you can build and rebuild your robot as any number of creatures or designs!

Design

It has several modes such as a fighting level, DJ mode, and an 8Ball form. This toy can be programmed and control with a computer and batteries are required for it to operate. There are 127 pieces in total, plus a USB cable, micromodule, instructions, and tools. This model can interact with two other toys in the same Code line. They are ZAPP and A.C.E. Your child can collect them all to see them perform together and join in the fun as they joke and dance.

Educational Value

Most construction sets have just one task and that is putting the pieces together. Meccano sets require assembly, programming, and interacting with the moving toy for maximum excitement.

Entertainment Value

Once assembled, this toy can interact with two other models in the same Code line. That adds value to this model, plus makes kids want to collect the others and do a wonderful job in putting it together.

Design

Twenty-five various ideas are included in the instructions so children can build and rebuild the many types of transportation. A 6V electrical motor is included, so batteries are not required to operate the toy. There are a hook and rotary body for the crane, making it fully operational. With the more than 406 parts, kids can make objects such as a buggy, crane, and a helicopter. Included tools and instruction booklet will help your child create all of the combinations that he or she can think of when they become familiar with all of the pieces in this assortment of parts.

Educational Value

Kids can take these toys apart once they build something. Many different things can be assembled, even creations that they think of on their own.

Entertainment Value

Aerial models with real working parts are great for kids to build and operate. With 25 different objects to create, the fun seems endless.

Design

This kit includes 497 parts, one meccabrain, four servos, three hand tools, one LED module, two rear wheel assemblies, and two motor gearbox assemblies. It also includes a USB cord but requires 4 D batteries to operate. It’s appropriate for children ages ten and over. This robot can even be programmed in three different ways!

Educational Value

Program your Erector 2.0 in three different ways: Learned Intelligence Movement allows it to learn as you work together with the robot. Drag and Drop means you instigate commands from your smart device. And Ragdoll Mode lets you control it through an avatar on your smart device!

Entertainment Value

This little guy is the life of the party! He dances, he tells jokes, he walks around beside you. He even exercises! Kids can learn a lot from the process of building this robot (though parents will need to exercise some patience) and once the Meccano Erector is up and running, it creates hours of fun.

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This kit comes with everything you’ll need to build and program your own 7.1 x 11 x 6.7”-inch robot. It connects to your computer and is equipped with tons of fun, interactive features. Micronoid A.C.E. DJs like a pro. This robot is comprised of 118 total parts, with a motorized micro-module. It has built-in games and sound effects, and when paired with another Micronoid robot, they interact!

Educational Value

This Micronoid robot teaches kids how to build with basic mechanical engineering and programming set at a novice level. The fact that A.C.E. loves to dance may even get little ones up and moving too!

Entertainment Value

This Micronoid robot loves to DJ and dance! It’s perfect for kids interested in STEM toys who also love a good beat. The build is easy with some adult supervision, and the robot is compact and pretty cute. We love that Micronoids interact with each other when they’re in the same space. With tons of fun, interactive features. Micronoid A.C.E. DJs like a pro. Groove to his tunes, or power him up for fighting mode! Change the mood by switching him to eight-ball mode. The build time is an hour or less, most suitable for children ages 8 and older.