Looking for gifts to encourage curiosity, exploration, and discovery? This holiday season, spark LEARNING & FUN with these best-selling STEM toys! These TOYS will help your little learners learn & grow all while having FUN!
1. Straws & Connectors
IMAGINATIVE FUN: Make playhouses and forts, design building, and engineer space crafts. The possibilities are endless and promote creativity in young children! STEAM & STEM: Develop engineering skills at an early age with this construction toy! Build, demolish, and re-build. You can even cut the straws for more building options. The durable plastic straws fit snuggly on the connectors, but are flexible so you can build arches and tunnels.
2. Magville Magnetic Building Blocks Playset
Magnetic Magville House is a system that allows young children to build the house of their dream! The set is interchangeable with Magville Castle (sold separately) so children can expand their building opportunities. The set has a brick finish on one side and a stone finish on the other.
3. Design & Drill Sets
The Design & Drill Activity Set supports STEM learning, introducing the principles of basic engineering concepts and patterning, a key early math skills.
4. Picassotiles Engineering Construction Building Set
Be an engineer, architect, or designer, this construction set offers open-ended possibilities to nurture STEM skills, children creativity, intelligence, promote problem solving abilities, logical thinking, improve hand-eye coordination, gain strong sense of geometry and stay focused by playing.
5. Gears! Gears! Gears! Sets
Build new STEM skills one gear at a time! When kids play with Gears! Gears! Gears!, they develop engineering and design skills with every twist, turn, and spin!
6. LinkaBLOX
LinkaBlox construction system is a STEM supporting construction system for children young and old alike! This 126 piece set in primary colors provides 4 basic pieces and additional hinge and wheel pieces that allow the builder to create buildings, animals, vehicles and more for hours of creative play.
7. Botley the Coding Robot
Meet our Toy of the Year-winning coding robot! Ready to code right out of the box, Botley helps kids as young as 5 start coding without the need for a screen! As one of the original robots for coding on the market, Botley has assisted children in understanding more about math and science after using the coding robot toy in school and at home.
8. Robot Mouse STEM Activity Set
The race is on to build hands-on coding skills! Build your maze, and then use the coding cards to create a step-by-step path for Colby, the Programmable Robot Mouse. Program the sequence of steps, and then watch Colby race to find the cheese!
9. Wonderboard STEAM Architect Magnet
Provides hours of creative play to build children’s imaginations, endless design possibilities, engaging STEAM learning, hands-on development of fine-motor skills, and opportunities for children to grow their perseverance! It incorporates science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). Great for independent or small group learning, maker spaces, or fun at home or while traveling!
10. STEM Explorers Domino Dash
These STEM challenges are a domino dash! Build a domino sequence and set off a chain reaction that demonstrates STEM principles including cause and effect, force and motion, and more. This 59-piece set includes 45 dominoes, 14 STEM-focused building components, and STEM challenge cards with critical thinking puzzles!
11. Snap Circuits
Snap Circuits teaches basic engineering, electronics and circuitry concepts by using building components with snaps to assemble electronic circuits on a simple “rows-and-columns” base grid. The resulting projects function like the printed circuit board found in most electronic products.
12. Circuits Blox
Looking for a fun way to learn? Look no further and check out E-Blox Incorporated’s Circuit Blox. The kids’ circuit building kits are a great way to incorporate STEM learning into your everyday life. The Circuit Blox™ is an interactive way to learn about electricity, current, and voltage.
13. GeoSafari Jr Kidscope and Talking Microscope
A perfect introduction to slide microscopes offering kid-friendly magnification and printed slides that provide a successful experience every time. Perfect for little STEM learners.
14. Artie 3000 the Coding Robot
Spark more curiosity with Artie 3000, the coding, drawing robot! Artie puts the “A” in STEAM, using creativity to teach kids to code in four different programming languages. Just plug Artie 3000 into your own tablet or computer – no WIFI required – then follow the easy instructions to create your own code and watch as Artie 3000 draws your code on paper!
Spark LEARNING & FUN with these Best-Selling STEM Toys