GIANTmicrobes Christmas Review (2013 Holiday Gift Guide)
A special thanks to Okiedog for providing us with a free product for our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide!
Products Reviewed
Christmas Tree Box Ornaments:
Trim your tree with Common Cold, Brain Cell, Kissing Disease, E. coli and the limited edition Red Amoeba, festively adorned with a Santa hat, candy cane, mistletoe, reindeer antlers, and winter scarf.
A computer Virus is a piece of digital code thatattaches itself to an existing program to spread across file systems and infect electronic apparatus. Viruses typically corrupt or destroy files on compromised systems, or degrade system performance.
A Trojan is a software program that looks useful or harmless, but that actually has a nefarious intent such as compromising security and allowing access to your system. Like the Trojan Horse from Greek mythology, once the innocuous looking file is brought into a computer system, normal defense mechanisms can be subverted.
GIANTmicrobes Review
The children and I recently had the pleasure of reviewing a great collection of items from one of out favorite companies, GIANTmicrobes! The first item that stood out to use was the Christmas Tree Box Ornaments. The kids were so fascinated by the miniature microbes and each one was decorated in holiday items. The little microbes are also designed to be hung on the Christmas tree, so the kids have reserved a special spot for them until they can be hung. We also enjoyed taking each microbe and reading about what they are on the GIANTmicrobes website.
In addition to the the adorable collection of Christmas themed microbes, we also received a couple computer viruses! The regular computer virus came in a key chain, while the Trojan computer virus was a large plush toy. I found these to be particularly fun to learn about and enjoyed explaining to the kids what they were. Lastly, we received this very interesting amoeba in a petri dish that is just absolutely great! It was so nice to discover the additional products that are available on the GIANTmicrobes website and add some additional learning resources to our collection. All of these items are designed so that my children are immediately intrigued and eager to learn all about them. We just love our GINATmicrobes products and we know your family will too!
How cute! They would be perfect for my dad, he’s a programmer!
great review these are the cutest ever
What an cute and fun way of learning for young and old alike! Thank you for the wonderful review (and introduction).
These are too cute! My fiance would learn and Autumn would play lol
These are so cute. My Grandkids would really love these
Who knew the common cold could be so cute?!
I’ve got 3 kids with a cold right now and it’s definitely not as adorable as this! haha
I love these! My husband and I have been wanting these for the longest! They’re all adorable and clever!
thanks for sharing i have a friends who is a science teacher and would love it
So cute and I love that they raise awareness!
I really like the computer viruses. what a cute addition to the microbe family!
These are really cute! It’s a fun way to teach kids about viruses, etc!
great review my oldest (college age) daughter introduced me to these last year. I’ve bought her quite a few and visit their site a few times a year but the computer viruses are new to me. I guess I need to head to the website now.
We got a few of the non-Christmas ones for my now-7 year old, then-4, when she started to become interested in science. This year for Christmas we got her a microscope set, it was the top of her list and I really think these guys helped set off her continuing love of learning about the world around us. I even found them really neat, since looking at a capture from an electron microscope, or digital rendering is so different from holding it in your hand [and cute to boot!]
Thank you for such an informative review! your pictures were so good that I felt like I truly got an idea of what these are like (and I have never heard of them).
I think the products are so unique; there must have been a lot of study in the making these products.
I really love the computer viruses. What a great additiion to the giant microbe collection!
These make me laugh…I know my grandson would think they are ‘cool’
These are funny. They would make an awesome white elephant gift.
This cracks me up! I love it! My Granddaughters Momma is a chemistry teacher, among other things, and shes always teaching Emma about stuff like this. Im getting ready to send a link to this site to her, I know shes going to love it! Thank you for doing the review and sharing this site with us!
I’ve always thought these were cool. I never thought about the education factor for children!
I love that they are so adorable and its WONDERFUL that your children found them so educational! I think they are a great tool to use to teach kiddos science!
What a fun way to teach the kids a little about the human body and science!
Those are so funny.. I love the gift pack.
My son would LOVE these!
These are so cute. What a great way to teach kids about microbes.
These are so cute. My grandkids would love these
I love this company! I use the microbes all the time when teaching! They get kids involved!
Adorable
I think these make a wonderful teaching tool. Kids love learning with something they can grab and hold.
These a cute dolls to carry around with you. It also reminds you of the past!
I love the giant microbes, as I scientist I’m always happy when kids get to learn about science. Thanks for the review, I didn’t know that they put out a Christmas box.
These are adorable! I’m a nursing assistant so these are right up my alley. Who knew germs could be so cute?