Learning Resources Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set

Screen-free robot mouse, ages 4 and up The budget route into screen-free coding, at about a quarter of Cubetto's price. A child snaps together a maze of green grids, walls and tunnels, plans the route to the cheese, then punches the steps into the robot mouse's color-coded buttons and lets it go. The coding cards turn each instruction into a tile to lay out first, so the plan can be checked before the mouse moves, and a wrong turn means reading back the sequence to find the step that went astray. The mouse holds up to 40 steps, so the mazes can grow as the child does. Staples lists the set at $65.79, and it needs three AAA batteries that are not in the box.