Learn About Germs with the GIANTmicrobes!
January 6th 2009 by Dr.MOZ in Healthy Kids, Strange Products
If your kids are having a hard time remembering to wash their hands before eating, perhaps they just need a visit from the GIANTmicrobes! Choose from any of the 50 GIANTmicrobes plush dolls (from the common cold to salmonella) to help teach your kids a variety of important health lessons. To ensure that the lessons stick, introduce them to the GIANTmicrobe soap dispenser (rhinovirus “common cold” shown) and they’ll line up to wash away those cute little microbes!
Have fun and stay healthy,
Dr.MOZ
January 7th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Now that is a great idea!
January 7th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
What a cute design kids will surely love this. Are this already out in the market?
January 7th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
They sure are Joyce. Just click on the links within the post and you’ll see a variety of prices at Teacher Source based on the number of GIANTmicrobes you would like. They seem reasonably priced ($7.95) each, and can also be purchased as an entire 50 piece set which would be great for schools.
~ Dr.MOZ
January 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Yeah, it’s a great idea. it looks like a toy. it will encourage them to use it if they will treat it as a toy.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Giant microbes are great, they can also be used as great cuddle toys.
January 8th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
So, we’re teaching kids that germs are cute and cuddly? I love these.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I sure would have liked them as a sickly little boy.
Little boys always have dirty hands from playing outside.
That cool blue soap dispenser would have been just the thing,
to get me washing my filthy little kiddy hands, more often.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Wow those are adorable. I think that my kids my like germs if they think they look like that.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
i love this concept (the toys look so cute and the idea of creating dolls inspired by germs is extremely creative), but i don’t think they would make my kids want to stay cleaner…..in fact it seems that just the opposite would be the case….
January 15th, 2009 at 9:44 am
They’re pretty cool! I don’t have kids but I would buy them for myself.
February 26th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
What a good idea, I always have my kids wash there hands numerous times a day, even use the anti bacterial sanitizer. I hate when my kids get sick, so anything I can do to help prevent that I will surely do.