By Andrew Liszewski
If your kid’s already got their ABC’s down pat by age 2, maybe it’s time to up the educational ante with some wooden building blocks featuring the periodic table. This set, exclusive to ThinkGeek, comes with 20 multi-sided blocks featuring all of the elements on the periodic table printed in bright colors. Now unless they’re some kind of pint-sized super villain in the making, knowing all the elements before they even hit grade school is essentially useless to them. But let’s face it, the only reason any parent would spend $39.99 on this set would be to show off to other parents that their kid knows exactly what elements make up that jelly bean they just shoved up their nose.
This is the type of a toy that a young mad scientist would play with. You could just see them stacking the blocks for H2SO4…