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Splash Blasters

Have a blast — with two piston-powered splash blasters you build yourself! Construct a pump tube to suck up water, then press the plunger to spray your friends. Water you waiting for?

Chemistry

Schools and Groups

Pre-K

Toddler

STEM Toys For 5 Year Olds 

STEM Toys For 6 Year Olds 

Featured

Boys & Girls Clubs

Giant Bubbles

Discover science that’s unbelie-bubbly fun — with a pair of bubble wands you make yourself!  Make a giant bubble wand and a customizable string wand toy, stir up a special bubble mix, then learn tips and tricks for creating beautiful bubbles!

Motion & Mechanics

STEAM Gifts

9-12

Science

Technology

Engineering

Canada

Summer Camp

Bubble Machine

Explore bubble chemistry, and how the construction and physics behind your machine helps bubbles form. Experiment with different wand positions and bubble formulas to make bigger, better bubbles, and practice noting your observations like scientists do! Then take a stab at more at-home explorations, from concocting your own super bubble mix, to building a pipe-cleaner bubble wand, to practicing bubble tricks.

Unusual Gifts For Kids

STEM Toys for 7 Year Olds 

STEM Toys for 8 Year Olds 

Imaginative Toys 

Gifts For Smart Kids

Racing

Fishing Game

Catch yourself a big one with this fishing game! Build your own fully-functional DIY fishing rod, complete with a ratchet-controlled reel. Then store your stuff in a tackle box that you decorate yourself (with cool stickers)! Ready to cast off?

Art & Creativity

DIY Gifts

Ice-Dyed Hat & Socks

Explore a new art technique that’s totally cool with this ice dyeing kit! Explore the surpr-ice-ing chemistry behind ice dyeing, read about other resist-dyeing techniques, and create a hat and socks that are to dye for!

Bestsellers

Cooking

Science Gifts for Boys and Girls 

Science of Cooking: Ice Cream

Dig into kid-friendly recipes for ice cream and sorbet — made using just the tools in this DIY ice cream kit and some ingredients from home!

Backyard Play

Gift Guide

Tinker

Science Experiment Kits

Space & Astronaut Toys for Kids

Geeky Gifts

STEM Kits 

STEM Toys 

DIY Science Kits

Bottle Rocket

Get ready to blast off into the air with your very own bottle rocket. Assemble your launcher, rocket, funnel, and launch mixture to experience some extremely fizzy fun.

Animals & Nature

Gifts under $20

Life Sciences

Educational Dinosaur Toys 

Window Garden

Learn about plant science in a hands-on way, by assembling your own suction-cup window planters and growing a set of green bean and squash plants. Learn to take care of your plants, identify new plant parts as they sprout, and make yummy dishes using fruit and other plant parts!

Pretend Play

Award Winning Toys 

Fort Builder Kit

Build a cave, a clubhouse, a castle, or anything else you can dream up with this endless fort building kit — perfect for architects-in-the-making.

Electronics

Solar Lantern

Illuminate your adventures with a solar-powered lantern! Inside a wood lantern that you build yourself, a solar LED light decoration uses energy from the Sun to turn on in the dark — and turn off in the light. What a bright idea!

Art & Design

Social Emotional Learning

Draw & Grow Planter

Decorate your planter with a pair of stick-on shoes and a customizable chalk face, then complete your little planter pal with a wacky wheatgrass hairdo you grow yourself!

Sensory Toys

Professions 

Environmental Science: Oil Cleanup

Learn how oil affects oceans and the critters that live in them, and explore different ways to clean up spilled oil.

Vox 

Solar Crayon Recycler

Use a DIY Solar Oven kit to harness the power of the sun to heat and melt old crayons into new ones! Discover different ways to capture and use the Sun’s heat, and learn all about the eco-friendly use of solar energy.

Travel Packs

Stocking Stuffers

Wooden Toys

Monster Mix & Match Art Pack

Trace pairs of stencils to customize a monster body, then rub colored pencils over texture cards to color in your monsters. Top it all off by adding stickers, or drawing your own finishing touches, to bring your monster friends to life. 
Monster Mix & Match Art Pack comes as a finished product, not a DIY building kit.

Craft Kits for Kids

Holiday Gifts

Paper Dolls

Become a doll designer as you mix and match patterns, add buttons, bedazzle with jewels, and color hair.

Color and Light

Slime

Color Changing Slime

Explore the science of thermochromism — with squishy slime that shifts color when it changes temperature!

Montessori Toys for Kids

Pegboard Games & Puzzles

Play 11 different games — from Tic-Tac-Toe to Tapatan — using a single travel-friendly pegboard and a set of removable game boards and game pegs. 
Pegboard Games & Puzzles comes as a finished product, not a DIY building kit.

Chalkboard & Glow Slime

Stretch your chemistry and doodling muscles by creating a set of two kinds of slime with this hands-on glow in the dark slime kit.

Wrap Rockets

Learn about snap buckling, and how it’s a feature in a variety of toys (like snap bracelets and jumping poppers) and even in nature (like with Venus flytraps).  Practice two ways of throwing your rockets, then watch them shoot through the air and snap around their targets — anything from plastic bottles to table legs to tree trunks!

Koala

Safari

Embark on a wild safari expedition with 3 engaging activities and a bonus magazine.

Educational Dinosaur Toys for Kids

Watch-It-Grow Planter: Snap Peas

Get growing with this build-it-yourself indoor garden seed kit! Plant snap peas on biodegradable fiber mats — then watch them grow. You can even measure their growth day by day!

Straw Launchers

Take a deep breath and get ready for some ex-straw special fun with these rocket launcher toys! Experiment with different launching options and learn how powerful air can be.

Fold & Play Fliers

Ready for takeoff? Explore the physics of flight with toy helicopters that twirl to the ground, hoop gliders that soar in surprising ways, and stunt planes that do tricks in midair.

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Nature Walk Lantern

Explore the nature in your own neighborhood with a customizable camping lantern that you build yourself! Go for a nature walk and search for flowers and leaves to create two unique lantern shades (swap any time)!

Light-Up Lantern

Puzzle together the pieces of an LED-powered lantern, fit for any budding explorer. Sharpen your spatial reasoning skills while crafting with wood, foam, and fabric.

Outdoor Fun

Bubble Machine

Fishing Game