GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine

I got a GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine set for my students who work with elementary school students to fiddle with. But, of course, I let my pre-schooler play with it. This is a toy designed and marketed towards girls. It comes with a story book and materials (peg board, spools, pegs, washers, and a ribbon) to follow along and make the spinning machine that Goldie makes in the book. My daughter (age 2.5) enjoyed putting the pegs in the board and the spools on the pegs and pulling the ribbon to make the animals spin around. The target age is 6, but my daughter regularly asks to play with Mommy's "round and round animals." She likes figuring out how to make them go. She also matches the animals to the pictures of them in the story. We even used the spools and pegs to make a little car one day.