Smithsonian Child Optical Microscope Kit with 150x 450x 900x Magnification

Ordered from Walmart.com and picked up in store. First for my friend's 9 year old son, my fiancé was jealous when he saw me wrapping it. So, I got one for him for Christmas too. Both were playing with them all night. You don't have to bend over to look into it, you can actually hold it up to your eye and look through it because the clips hold your specimen in place. The kid went outside and got dirt and stuff, the 31 year old looked at dog and human hair and some other fun stuff. Very cool for interested minds. Glad I got it for both of them. The scalpel is plastic and not super sharp. No complaints here!

This is a great little microscope and very strong I use the 450×most the time because the other 2 stronger settings are so strong you would have to be looking at something mighty small to use them its lots of fun and very easy to use

grandson is loving it and uses it a lot

I LOVE IT! my son , that are playing right now with the microscope told me that if i can se by the microscope and looks amazing

my grandson is 5 and this was the first real big kid microscope he loves it and all the slides i bought from you as well.

It was somewhat difficult to focus up and down, then get a clear view of the object we were looking at. But once we got the hang of it, it was interesting to see the objects magnified.clearly.

This product is very educational. It let's a child explore science, math and other subjects for school. He is really interested in this.

You get what you pay for with this microscope. It says that it magnifies up to 900X, but the resolution is terrible. It is also very light, and the look/feel of it is very cheap. I wish it came with more prepared slides as well. However, it is a kids' microscope and only cost $20. I just thought that a microscope with the Smithsonian name on it would be a little better quality that it is.

I bought it took look at different kinds of algae,well if it's not bigger than a pencil lead forget it,I'm disappointed I even bought extra slides .i would rather return this microscope and I do not recommend it for a child either ,it's really all plastic I think the lenses are too .its suppose to go up to 900times but if it does I can't tell .its not made very well and a waste of hard earned money

No directions on how to turn light on, how to insert battery for light, How to use microscope, This toy would be fine if it had directions with it.