My son (then 6) got one and a half years ago at Christmas the little microscope. It is easy to operate and easy to handle for children's hands. But you have to have quite a lot of patience, because the fine tuning that one really sees something, ziemllich fiddly. Larger objects can be so super look, but as the hair lice in guinea pig skin were already much more difficult to "get" because we did not get asked Schrf the microscope. I especially like that the microscope is illuminated and you can directly onto the object push (for example the skin) and not until long must fumble something on a stage.