So my take on the best 3d printers for our kids or ourselves are the ones we have to assemble. Just because of the maintenance and failure rate of these things even today. It is far better to teach our young'ns about the workings of a printer so that by the time you have a working machine even your kids understand how to level a bed or adjust belt tension or adjust forward current to a stepper driver or check for play on a given axis, etc. It is with mentality that i had all 3 of my kids help me assemble the first printer I bought 4 years ago now in May of 2016..

I kept up this habbit as I bought each of the printers I have. Every one I had my chr'n help me assemble..

And then as a reward for my decision to take this route with my minions I got to have the youngest help me 3d print a whole i3 printer..

The REAL question here is do you want an easy button for your kids or do you want to use this as a springboard to force as much learning as possible on them little minds?