Metal Detector for Children - Developing a Child’s Inquisitive Mind
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Metal detectors are a good way to develop a child’s curious mind, not to mention providing hours of fun in the backyard, the park, the beach or any other dry patch of land on hot summer days.
A lot of children like to play detectives and metal detectors can satisfy this need adequately.
This metal detector is designed for children and works by making a sound when it senses there is a piece of metal under it. Unfortunately this does not provide some of the specs we would expect form a standard or a professional metal detector that have sensors to discriminate between different types of metal and some other advanced features, which is quite understandable considering the price and less need for sophistication as its for children.
One idea would be to see how many metallic objects they can find on a day and try and improve on it on subsequent days, or seeing if they can find hidden metals by devising a hide-and-seek game but only this time with metals. These are a couple of ways of injecting more fun into their search.
According to seller’s instructions, it is able to detect metals of all size, but the truth is a lot of metal detectors for children do not do a very good job and miss a lot of objects, especially those that are pretty small in diameter such as a nail. If you are therefore buying one for an older kid you may wish to consider a standard metal detector and not one designed for children. I would therefore only recommend this product for a child aged under 8 or so.
My understanding is that this only detects along the ground rather than under it. If this is the case, I guess children would be able to use their eyes for some of the detection and do not need torely on the detector at all times. This is one big negative. Detectors should be able to detect under ground even if only a few milimetres deep.
Another option to add an added dimension of fun to the proceedings would be to be use a metal detector that also doubles up as a radio-controlled car. This looks like any other radio controlled car but is fitted with a metal detector at the bottom.
It works by making a sound and flashing lights anytime it is driven over any metallic object. Unfortunately there is no information as to how deep it is able to detect which is a slight problem because some toy metal detectors merely detect metals that are lying on the ground and not under it. I suspect it is able to detect metals of all kinds, although, again, there is no sensor to distinguish the type of metal.
