BEAVERBOT Kids Cardboard Cutter Tool - Safe DIY Construction Kit for Children Ages 3+, Educational STEM Craft Toy for Boys & Girls, Creative Art and Building Project Set

So excited, can’t wait to use it. What a great product.

This Beaver Cutter is AMAZING!!!!!!!! It's everything it's been bragging about for years!!It cuts through cardboard like butter, and is so easy to use!I didn't try cutting my hair, but I tried cutting yarns and other hair-esque items, and as promised, they don't catch and tangle! I tried pushing my finger into the place where the cutting happens, and I couldn't get it under and didn't hurt it!The package comes with the cutter, some tools (hole punch, scoring tool), and some cardboard sheets to practice with! It's a bit difficult to start with following the lines, but once you figure out how to manipulate the cardboard, it's super easy!Overall, this product is very much so worth the price for those who have a lot of cardboard and a great imagination!

I'd recommend this one for younger kids. It feels like using a band saw, just safe and with cardboard. Great for a kid that wants to try the cool tools but isn't quite old enough yet.It's fairly loud, but not uncomfortably so.It's very well made and works perfectly with cardboard, although it's not super precise (but that could be my lack of practice). Comes with a few templates for a fishing game and some decorations etc.

I have a toddler boy who loves to build and create, especially after watching his dad work the saw. This cardboard cutter came up when looking for a birthday gift for him and he is obsessed. It comes with some cardboard with designs to get started but this is also such a fun way to get rid of all the shipping boxes that came to our house. It’s well made and has a built in waste drawer to collect all of the shreds that come off as you cut. There’s no sharp pieces to it’s safe for my son to use, although I still help and monitor him since he’s only 3.

My family does a LOT of crafts, and this is a really neat tool for the kids to use vs cutting. This is an inverted reciprocating saw table that uses a round blade. This allows for multi-directional cutting, albeit with a thick blade cutout. It cuts cardboard, paper, thin plastic and depron with ease. There's not much noise, no batteries, and it's faster than I thought it would be. However, it does NOT fit hobby foam board as it advertised. The thickness of the material is a big problem as there is no way to adjust the cutter to fit thicker materials. Amazon boxes won't even fit which leaves very few materials worth using. It even included tools but gives no instruction or reason why. I hate to say I'm disappointed, but I really am. It has a lot of potential, but it seems to be missing the mark.

Ok... this one is NOT an inexpensive proposition... I'm pretty sure I paid less for my first table saw, but I also wouldn't let my kid use that without supervision.What do you get for this price? Well, you get a super easy way to make clean cuts in cardboard that's safe and quick. I'd have no problem turning my 8 year old loose with this on her own after a quick lesson. It cuts pretty clean (basically goes up and down and clean punches the cardboard in a line) but does have a wide kerf (the width of the cutting line for those that don't live in wood shops) of about 1/8". Do some practice cuts so you get used to that line width... that'll keep you from messing up on something important.Where I think we'll get our money's worth out of this is basically reusing Amazon boxes, etc to do school projects, signs for PTO, etc. It's easy enough to cut letters out and other shapes that there are a lot of ways to use this. If you're really creative you can use this to build much larger structures by cleaning cutting cardboard into pieces to fit together.

I'm really torn about how to review this item. Part of me says it is a fantastic product that worked really well and provided a lot of enjoyment for my granddaughter but the other part of me says that for what it is, this product is ridiculously overpriced. Over $400 for something that cuts cardboard is an insane price. This isn't even the full kit and in the instructions, they list accessories that you can purchase for this particular cutter. So if you want those, you can add even more to the price tag. Regardless of the price, the product works well. When running, the Beaverbot is quiet and cuts the cardboard easily. It takes a little bit of practice to be able to cut with any sort of accuracy but it doesn't take long to get the hang of it. The instructions state that for more intricate cuttings, you can remove the protective hat but I never found any way or instructions as to how to remove it. The body of the Beaverbot is made of sturdy plastic and the design is quite cute. All of the cuttings from the cardboard are deposited into a debris tray that is held in place with strong magnets which really minimizes any of the mess that might be caused by cutting cardboard. The on/off switch is large and easy to use even for the youngest user and the safety feature of not being able to tangle hair or cut fingers is just a bonus. The biggest problem, and the one that will stop folks from trying this unit, is the hugely over-inflated price tag.

The Beaverbot is an interesting new STEM/trade oriented toy. It is well made and attractively and thoughtfully designed. When I looked at the videos, I thought it would be like a safer version of a band or scroll saw, but it operates more like a sewing machine, taking a small, incremental "bite" out of the cardboard as you push it through. There is definitely a learning curve to see where the cut will be, and since some of the material is actually removed by the cutting process, the two pieces do not fit together again. The box includes a couple of projects to get you started - these are made of a middle thickness corrugated cardboard. I read the instructions and didn't find a lot of guidance on the materials you can use, so we tried it with the Amazon box it came in, which is a thicker but less dense corrugated cardboard, as well as paper chipboard (snowman) and heavyweight white card stock (hockey stick). It worked with all these and never seemed to struggle.Pros:- Very well made, well functioning machine- Safe to use- Teaches stem through design and exposes kids to trades through tool usage- Reasonably quiet in use- Materials for projects are easily and affordably available.Drawbacks- The edges on the cut items are not smooth, they have a bit of a chunky edge that affects the final appearance. I do not believe that the lion shown in the listing pictures could be achieved with this machine, unless you were to sand the pieces after cutting.- The cutting is pretty slow because the machine is chipping away just a mm or two of material with each punch. Small arms could tire from having to push the item through.- Even though it is fairly slow, being accurate in tight corners can be a challenge even for adults.Overall, I think this machine could be a great thing for the right family with kids who are interested in making things. However, given its substantial cost, you need to be sure that you have enough ideas to keep it from being an expensive dust collector, and you have to be ok with the finish it provides or be willing to take extra steps to smooth things off.

This item is easy to use - just plug it and press the nose button and start cutting. You can use any cardboard but it does come with a few pieces of cardboard with printed designs. It's great that you don't to buy expensive refills - you just use any cardboard. You can cut freehand or draw out designs first.This is a great toy for a creative child, especially the type that wishes they could play with their parents' power tools.I know this is intended for children, but I tested it out myself and I found it SO satisfying. It cuts the cardboard so cleanly and smoothly.Unlike other crafts, this device leaves zero mess. All cardboard shavings go into a drawer that is easy to pull out and empty. Some shavings get caught at the base of the blade, but the top piece of the device is easy to remove and you can then suck up the stuck shavings with a vacuum. It is really well-designed so that there is never an issue with trapped shavings that you can't access to clean out.The thought of letting a child play with a device that resembles a saw is kind of scary, but it's designed well so that only something as thin as a piece of cardboard can get any where near the blade - a finger will not fit in there. But you of course would still only want a child to play with it supervised.It is quite pricy for a children's toy (even with the $50 coupon at time of testing) but for the right child, it will provide hours of fun. When you take into account that you feed it cardboard that would otherwise go to recycling with no other expensive refills (it comes with a few replacement blades so it would take a while before you have to buy those), it can be worth it for a creative family.

While this is technically safe enough for your kid to play with, this is NOT for the impatient. There is a steep learning curve, and I would not allow someone who is easily frustrated to play with this toy, because you're liable to get the thing thrown across the room. Setup is nonexistent. Turn the thing on, start feeding it cardboard, and away you go. However, like I said, there is a learning curve.The blade moves up and down to cut a fairly thick line. This means that you have to leave a fair bit of distance between the dashed lines on the pictures included with the beaverbot toy, or else you're going to end up cutting way too close, and messing it up. That's fine if you're playing with the thing free-form, but it can be frustrating for a kid who isn't patient enough to figure out the method of how to align the cardboard with the lines. The other thing is that the blade is in a single direction. It takes a while to get used to the way that you need to move the cardboard around to get a cut.All that said, once you DO get the hang of it, this is a very fun toy to play with, because it encourages creativity and imagination. How many of us have stacks and stacks of cardboard from online shopping deliveries, and young ones who want to use them but you don't trust their little hands with box cutters or super sharp scissors? This gives you a fun and safe way to let your kids play with the leftover cardboard from cereal boxes, cracker boxes, pasta boxes, and various Amazon delivery boxes, and make something from them. Then, when they are done with it, you can toss it in the recycle bin.The other nice thing is that the "drill" tool and the scoring/folding tool are indeed made of plastic, so I'm not nervous that someone's going to stab themselves with the things.Once you get the hang of it, this can be hours and hours of fun.EDIT: My niece was over this weekend, and absolutely loves to build things out of cardboard. She already had a plastic awl that she could use, along with plastic screws and other such implements to make herself some toys or puppets or whatever. The second she saw the Beaverbot toy, she was absolutely thrilled to bits. We gave her some old cereal boxes and cracker boxes to practice with while the adults were chatting with each other. She did not get up from that chair for like a good 2 hours or so, because she was having so much fun! OK, the machine itself is not cheap, but the building materials it calls for are incredibly cheap, so I guess it balances out? Best part is that I have a friend who's big into paper crafts, and they also had a ton of fun playing with my niece on making stuff from cardboard.They worked on the included projects. The mask project gives a little mixed signals with regards to the dotted lines on it. The dotted lines indicate where to cut, and one of the ears had said dotted line going through it. But, in the instructional video from the QR code, the ear is meant to stay put. I was a minor hiccup in an overall fun project. Once my niece did the fishing poles project that was included, she then went on to draw and colour her own fish of various types, then cut them out for the fishing game. When she ran out of fasteners, she just kept her extra little fish as bonus fish that is meant to go to the winner of the fishing game she just made.It's really cool that this toy was able to unlock the imagination so effectively, and kept the little one occupied for ages. Victory!