Roylco True to Life Human X-Rays

Our 5 year old granddaughter loved adding these to her “doctor” kit and had a lot of fun looking at them and laying them out to make a whole skeleton. We have a large light therapy box that worked great for viewing the X-rays.

I just popped the xrays off their shipping sheets, and put them together as a full body. I was happy to see that the arms and legs are segmented in different ways; which allows your eyes to focus on different aspects of the bones and their relationships. I was also pleasantly suprised to find that when the body was complete, there were two extra pieces(a jaw and half a pelvic/hip area),that were included just to useful in examining the body closer. The x-rays are true to the picture on the packaging, and are transparent enough for children to hold up to their bodies, and examine how the bones lie on their own forms. They bones can be see without being held to a light, and a lamp would do just fine to do a real examination. Personally, I am ready to whip out the light table, and lay out the whole body on a carpet.I am more than excited to bring this well thought out and truly cool manipulative into the classroom with my 1-5 year olds and see it through their eyes!My only negative, is the obvious. They are as thick as you'd expect a plastic x-ray to be, and thus would require somewhat gentle handling. With the younger kids, you'd have to be constantly present to prevent bending and what have you.Basically, if you are even half considering these, they are well worth it.

I was unhappy with all the cheap doctor sets out there, and my 3 year old son was unimpressed by them. I have a lot of health issues, and have been hospitalized multiple times, so playing doctor is one of the ways my son deals with his anxieties and fears about it all. Its really given him a sense of empowerment to understand what hospitals are for and what doctors really do. So this Christmas I decided to make him a QUALITY doctor set, something that would help him learn and expand as opposed to a bunch of plastic dodads that would just take up space in the play area.I am BEYOND impressed with this X-Rays. They are well made, sturdy, and easy to identify. They also came with a page of words I plan to cut out to make a game for him as he gets older, where he can assign the word "skull" to the picture of the skull and so on and so on. No lightbox needed to read these, just hold them up or place them in any old window. A QUALITY "toy" to help your medically curious kids of any age.

This is a skeleton model of a young adult, though I'm not sure if it's male or female. There are 18 pieces that stand about 5' tall when you put all them all together. These work great when held up to the light, but really show up well when you put them against a window or on a light table. The instructions even say you can use them on an overhead projector for use in the classroom. There's a very helpful index picture on every piece that tells you how the pieces fit together to form the complete puzzle. There's also a scratch coating that's been applied to these, but they also suggest you get them laminated if you're going to have a lot of kids handle them. They also include a sheet of labels that identify the bones and a page of information about x-rays and some ideas of how to use these pieces in class. Great teaching tool!

These are SO COOL! My 3yo has been really into playing doctor lately so this was the perfect addition to her kit. I’ll pretend to take X-rays of her during a checkup and then lay the appropriate film over her. These are almost see through on the bones and she gets so excited and shouts, “I can see my REAL BONE!” She is learning the names all while just playing and having fun. Also, they are great to clip on the dry erase side of an easel to examine. Lots of pretend play with them for now, but plenty of extension activities as she gets older. Total win!

As a child's project and reference, it's pretty cool. I actually wanted to use them as a Halloween prop on my china cabinet windows with a glowing light behind them. They were "ok" for that tasks. Each piece varies in size (not sure why I thought the would all be larger - 8x10s) so it didn't have the coverage I was looking for. And there was a little skeleton on the corner of each indicating where the body part was located. Again - GREAT as a tool to educate kids, average as a Halloween prop

My kids wanted to learn about bones, these have been great! They can look at specific bones, but then build the skeleton like a puzzle also!

We love these x-rays. They were easy to "set up" (tear apart at perforations into individual xrays). My kids and I sprayed a little water on our sliding glass doors and they stuck right up, and it was like a giant xray wall. Very cool. My daughter, 4 years old, only needed a little help figuring out where each xray went. It includes a small xray that shows the entire skeleton as a guide. Fantastic quality, easy to store (fits back in the included cardboard envelope). I look forward to using these for all sorts of lessons with my kids.Added bonus? Great halloween decoration!