All of the products in this post we have tried, reviewed or already owned. Some of these products I was given in order to conduct my review. As always, all thoughts & opinions are 100% my own.
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2019 STEM, STEAM, Art & Craft Gift Guide
Acrobat Tower Constantin Stack and Balance Game
Take turns with a friend stacking laser-cut wooden puzzle pieces into the wooden base to see who can place the last piece without knocking the stack over. Each Acrobat Tower Constantin Stack and Balance Game from Recent Toys includes a ruler to see who can stack their pieces the highest, or a timer if you want to go for speed. With several different ways to play, these Stack & Balance puzzles from Jean Claude Constantin are sure to measure up at your next game night!
Learn MoreKids can double the fun with the Aquabeads Deluxe Studio as they can now create fun 3D designs with 2 flip trays. This Deluxe set contains more than 1,300 jewel & solid beads in 24 colors, a container, and two flip trays and bead receivers, rainbow bead pen, easy trays, sprayer, template sheets & instructions. This set connects to the Aquabeads Beginners Studio or Glamorous Designer Set for even more fun!
Learn MoreArtesannia Handcrafts Embroidery Kit
Artesannia Handcrafts makes products for craft enthusiasts. Artesannia believes that every person has the power and freedom of the creation in their hands and can joy the Artesannia Family of Craf-a-Holics! This Artesannia Handcrafts Embroidery Kit comes in a clear plastic box with 36 compartments that can be moved to attend the different necessities. The kit contains 100 colors of floss, covering the most popular variety of colors. Each one is wrapped around plastic bobbins and labeled with its corresponding DMC color number. It is very convenient to keep you organized and stress-free. Each floss is made with a soft, smooth, durable and robust skein of polyester cotton and has around 8.75 yards (8 meters) long. You can make about eight lines of bracelets with each color. The kit also comes with embroidery needles, cross-stitch needles and thimbles, scissors and an untwist tool. Along with your purchase you will get a FREE Ebook in HOW TO MAKE FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS making it the perfect holiday gift for any age and sex.
Learn MoreDiamond painting made simple! Larger gems and adorable magical designs make this activity easy and fun to do for kids and beginners. In the Big Gem Diamond Painting kit from Faber-Castell, no glue is needed! Just peel the clear cover off the adhesive then use the stylus to pick and place the colorful gems. Enjoy two diamond painting activities in one kit: 12 holographic stickers include printed dots for guided gem placement while, 2 sun catchers offer an open-ended design experience. Apply your Big Gem Magical stickers to journals, cards, notebooks, pencil cases and so much more. Display your suncatchers using the stands or included suction cups.
Learn MoreBuild Your Own Crystal Narwhal
Create your own sparkly, crystal-covered narwhal in this Klutz Build Your Own Crystal Narwhal kit! This “unicorn of the sea” will shimmer with a crystal spout, horn, and tail. Bend and insert colorful pipe cleaners into your animal figurine, and then soak it in our specially formulated crystal solution to watch the crystals magically grow. Along the way, learn the science behind the magic in the included 20-page book.
Learn MoreChristmas Crafts Fun Kit
Dozens of fun-to-do Christmas projects! The kit contains 28 easy origami projects, including 48 sheets of genuine origami paper; 60 paper snowflake patterns; over 100 ready-to-color stained glass paper ornaments; Full-Color Decorative Christmas Illustrations CD-ROM including 362 festive designs for your holiday projects; and crayons.
Learn MoreConstruction Building Toys Tool Kit
This nuts and bolts construction building toy is the perfect Preschool Screwing Tools Set for kids. The construction set gives young kids all they need to tinker and build. Let their imagination unleash with the many possible creatures and structures that can be created.
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Create Life like 3-dimensional structures right into the snap in base using your fine motor skills to screw and unscrew the plastic dexterity toys! Put all pieces into the convenient plastic storage container to keep all the pieces together. Complete 97 piece plastic builders kit screwing toys perfect for birthdays and Christmas! Improves manual dexterity, hand-eye coordination, color recognition, counting, sorting, increases attention and focus. Construction Building Toys Tool Kit from Skoolzy encourages problem solving and constructive play.Craft City Karina Garcia’s Make Your Own Kool-Aid Edible Slime Kit
Craft City has partnered with Kool-Aid to bring you an exciting new slime kit: Edible Slime! This edible slime kit contains everything you need to make delicious, Kool-Aid flavored edible slimes! Choose from the Blue Raspberry flavor or Cherry flavor to make gooey good edible slime. Top it off with some edible confetti and enjoy! Kit also contains secret slime mix powders, a mixing bowl, mixing spoon, a pair of gloves, storage containers and easy to follow instruction sheet. This kit includes everything needed to make fun, tasty slimes: Blue Raspberry and Cherry Flavor Powders and Edible confetti.
Learn MoreCrayola Glitter Dots Sparkle Station
Glitter Dots are an innovative glitter-infused dot that sticks to a variety of surfaces to make sparkly designs. Glitter Dots Sparkle Station allows you to roll, cut, and decorate with Glitter Dots in a fun new way. Kids can experiment with adding their Glitter Dots to paper, wood, felt, papier-mâché, fabrics, foam board, and more. This set includes a collection of art tools for kids, providing a number of fun ways to apply Glitter Dots. Set includes 84 Glitter Dots, 1 Roller, 9 Roller Cutter Attachments, 1 Flat Roller, 6 Shape Cutters, 2 Resist Sheets, 1 Cardstock Box, 3 Cards, 1 Clay Tool, 1 Work Mat, and Instruction Sheets. Makes a great gift for creative and crafty girls and boys. Safe for ages 5 & up!
Learn MoreDesign & Drill Space Circuits
Three, two, one… blast off to STEM learning and fun! Astronauts-in-training use a real, kid-safe power drill to complete 20 space-themed, circuit-building challenges with this out-of-this-world creativity set. Kids build early engineering and problem-solving skills as they spin simple motors, and more on their mission control boards. Includes space-themed circuit board, battery pack, kid-safe power drill, 20 connector bolts, 10 small connectors, 5 long specialty connectors, 3 long utility connectors, 10 double-sided space-themed challenge cards, and instruction guide. Reach for the stars, with the Design & Drill TECH Space Circuits!
Learn MoreDiamond Art Club Panda Samourai
Diamond Art Painting is a fun, innovative way to craft! Like a combination of cross-stitch and paint-by-numbers, diamond painting is the new creative hobby that’s taking the crafting world by storm. You simply apply colorful resin rhinestones to richly-pigmented canvas paintings. The result? Visually dazzling, mosaic diamond artworks that sparkle, shimmer, and shine. People describe diamond painting as more relaxing than any other craft because of how calming it feels to place the diamonds one by one. The hours fly by as you channel your creativity into a stunning finished artwork. It’s fun, easy — and it’s for everyone. Whether you’re an experienced crafter or looking for your first creative outlet, you can make beautiful diamond art with little effort and no mess!
Creating your diamond art painting is a straightforward, three-step process:
- Dip the tip of applicator tool into the strip of wax
- Pick up each diamond by pressing the applicator to diamond’s rounded, faceted side
- Apply each diamond to the adhesive canvas template, placing it based on the color-coded chart
Discovery Prehistoric SLIMYGLOOP Dig
We gave this STEM kit to our son for his birthday and he has loved going through the slime and then putting together the dinosaurs! Peel and smash your way through dark and jiggly SLIMYGLOOP® tarpit to uncover and build hidden dinosaur skeletons with the Discovery Prehistoric SLIMYGLOOP® Dig! Poke and press the thick jelly layer and watch it wiggle and shake before you excavate. Dig in with the provided digging tool or even use your hands to squish, dig and reveal the dinosaur bones hidden. Collect all of the bones to build two dinosaurs. Kit Includes: 2 SLIMYGLOOP® Digs - 2 Sets of Dinosaur Bones - 1 Digging Tray – Fun-Fact Illustrated Poster - Easy-To-Follow Instructions
Learn MoreDouble-Sided Window Sketch & Draw Set
Artists of all ages and skill levels will be inspired by this all-inclusive set! This 61pc set from Royal Langnickel comes neatly packed inside a clear case for easy transport and convenient storage. Set includes: 12 color pencils, 12 graphite pencils, 12 compressed color sticks, 6 sketching sticks, 4 vine charcoal, 3 charcoal pencils, 3 charcoal sticks, 1 mannequin, 1 sanding block, 1 blending stump, 1 kneadable eraser, 1 eraser, 1 sharpener, 1 sketching pad, 1 instructional guide booklet, 1 clear storage tin.
Learn MoreEasel Art 23 Piece Set
This Royal Langnickel 23 piece Easel Art Set comes with a mixing guide, paint brushes, paint, an easel AND five painting projects. This is the perfect set for beginner painters 8 years and older.
Learn MoreGlitz & Glow Crystal Growing Kit
The ultimate crystal-growing adventure! Glitz & Glow Crystal Growing Kit from Fat Brain Toys is a large chemistry set. Young scientists get to create a huge treasure trove of crystals using real crystal-growing chemicals and real laboratory techniques, just like real scientists. Mold plaster shapes including a star, moon, and stunning geometric prisms, then use them as the bases of amazing crystal structures. Create a glow-in-the-dark crystal moon, a crystal-encrusted heart, a mini crystal wand, big crystal-covered sticks, and more - Even discover crystals in your own kitchen, like sugar crystals! Then, once you’ve finished making your own amazing collection of shimmering, glimmering crystals, you can store them all safely in a beautiful, transparent, gold-trimmed treasure chest. Real science becomes brilliantly glamorous with the Glitz & Glow Chemical Kit!
Learn MoreGraviTrax Accessories
GraviTrax is an interactive track system that provides endless activities and challenges for any STEM enthusiast. The main objective: design and build marble racetracks and experiment with gravity, magnetism, and kinetics to propel your ball to the finish line. This year there are new accessories you can add to your GraviTrax track including GraviTrax Scoop, GraviTrax Lifter, GraviTrax Trampoline, GraviTrax Tip Tub and GraviTrax Flip!
Learn MoreGreen Craft Kids Ultimate STEM Learning Pack
Green Craft Kids created an Ultimate STEM Learning Pack that will inspire your young learner with SIX creative and educational STEM Discovery Boxes! This pack is the gift that keeps on giving as it will keep your child busy for days and days! This pack includes the Solar System, Slime Lab, Chemistry Lab, Physics Lab, Music Science, and Intro to Electricity Discovery Boxes.
The Solar System Box includes four different experiments including: a constellation geoboard kit, a space sand kit, a planetarium kit, a sun dial kit, and more! In the Slime Lab Box, young chemists will experiment by creating different kinds of slime: black chalkboard slime, glow-in-the-dark slime, fluffy slime, slime fish, and slimy glow worms. In the Save Our Oceans Box, young marine biologists will learn about how pollution impacts the oceans and the marine biology of our precious seas with the following kits: ocean zones model, ocean water pressure and Boyle’s Law Experiments, a make-your-own bioplastics kit, and biodegradable packing peanuts experiments. In our Chemistry Lab Box kids will explore the amazing science behind chemical reactions! Young chemists will experiment with polymers through growing animal figurines, create and be amazed by string slime, and learn all about pH with a red cabbage indicator pH kit. The Music Science Box includes SIX more kits. Kids will make their own maracas, finger cymbals, ankle bells, box guitar and two different kinds of kazoos, and conduct experiments sound waves, frequency, volume and vibration. Finally, with the Intro to Electricity Box, kids will build an electric propeller car, learn how motors work, connect circuits, and engineer their own fiber optic lights. Each box comes with its own 12-page S.T.E.A.M. magazine full of comics, games, puzzles, and more learning opportunities.
Learn MoreCreate your own magic with this Harry Potter Crochet kit! Create your own magic and conjure up these adorable figures of “the boy who lived” and his friends. All the spells you need to make amigurumi dolls of Harry Potter and Dobby are included: yarn, stuffing, needle and thread, safety eye beads, and the special magic wand crochet hook! A 76-page instruction book gives step-by-step directions to make ten more magical models, and the full-color photos will ensure your projects turn out completely enchanting.
Learn MoreHome Artie 3000 The Coding Robot
Home Artie 3000 The Coding Robot puts the “a” in steam, making coding relatable and fun for kids. Learn to code and get drawing with steam-style robotics to create visual masterpieces. You can code it and Artie 3000 can draw it! This toy has easy setup with Artie’s quick start guide, step-by-step instruction cards, and FAQs. Connect to Artie 3000’s Wi-Fi, then use your tablet or computer to program Artie 3000 to draw your code creations! Simply drag and drop blocks of code to tell Artie how and what to draw. More advanced coders can use Artie’s additional coding applications including remote control, point & click, Blockly, snap!, Python and JavaScript. Test your program on the online simulator, then set Artie on any sheet of paper and watch as he draws what you programmed! By adding an artistic element to STEM-powered fun, Artie 3000 powers creativity and introduces the basics of coding.
Learn MoreThe Iron Man MK50 Robot from UBTECH will let your child play as Tony Stark and suit up in the iconic Mk50 armor to play through a series of Nanotech weapon field tests and battles designed by Friday. This walking, talking Iron Man Mk50 Robot is your portal into the events after Marvel’s Avengers: infinity war. Start by downloading the free app for iOS or Android to start the adventure with augmented reality missions, where users can battle drones inspired from the Marvel Cinematic universe. Using the app your child can control the robot’s motors, lights and sounds using a mobile device. They can also customize their Iron Man by uploading their face and recording audio phrases. Using the app you can also code original, unique action sequences that only your robot can perform!
Learn MoreKlutz Jr: My Fun & Fuzzy Headband Salon
Little makers will channel their favorite animal with these trendy hair accessories they make themselves! In the Klutz Jr.: My Fun & Fuzzy Headband Salon kit, your child can create 3 different designs, a cat, a bear, or a unicorn with super fuzzy, pre-cut faux-fur stems and custom foam ear shapers. Then add self-adhesive bows, jewels, and glitter foam accessories to make the look your own. Attaching them is as easy as sliding them onto the included clips or headband and you’re ready to rock your wild style!
Learn MoreKlutz Maker Lab Remote Race Car
Makers, start your engines! Power your interest in circuitry and engineering with this Klutz Maker Lab Remote Race Car DIY wired remote race car kit. This kit includes everything you need to build a chipboard craft car and learn the basics of wiring and switches. The included instruction book will have you zooming around in no time!
Learn MoreK’NEX Thrill Rides 3-In-1 Classic Amusement Park Building Set
Operate an amusement park right in your home as you build thrilling rides with K’NEX 3-in-1 Classic Amusement Park Building Set! This building set consists of colorful parts and pieces that allow you and your children to create 3 different models, one at a time. Create a majestic Ferris wheel that stands almost 3 feet tall, a heart-pounding boom ride, or an exciting swing ride. All models can be built one at a time. This building set contains 744 classic parts and pieces, including rods and connectors. These durable plastic pieces can be easily attached to one another and are simple to reassemble as well. This building system features a battery-powered motor that gives life to connected K’NEX rods and pieces to create a model. Each ride can either spin or rotate just like a real amusement park ride! K’NEX 3-in-1 Classic Amusement Park Building Set improves children’s STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) capabilities by invoking their natural curiosity and creativity. Building with K’NEX puts children on the path to a fundamental understanding of STEAM subjects.This toy also supports key areas of a child’s developmental growth. As children click the different parts together and discover how the building system works, they’re strengthening hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, problem-solving skills, and spatial awareness, as well as exercising their imaginations!Builders can create unique structures that actually move. This toy allows builders to go beyond their own imaginations, making an amusement park and thrilling rides a reality. Explore endless possibilities with the 3-in-1 Classic Amusement Park Building Set!
Learn MoreLatchKits Mermaid Latch Hook Kit
The classic latch hook craft kit is back! LatchKits Mermaid Latch Hook Kit is a fun and easy-to-learn craft—just loop, hook, and pull! Everything you need is included: the handy latch hook tool, pre-cut yarn and color-coded, easy-to-follow canvas make getting started on your project a snap. The sturdy canvas features fabric-lined edges and hanging loops to create your very own soft and fuzzy design that’s ready to hang on your wall or use as a mini-rug—it’s a great anytime project!
Learn MoreMake, experiment, and play! This Klutz LEGO Gadget activity kit will have you building 11 machines including a gravity powered car and a wacky boxing robot. The fun doesn’t stop once you’ve completed all of the projects in the book - open-ended prompts will inspire you to continue experimenting with your own designs and modifications!
Learn MoreMagnet Movers
Attract early physics skills through fun magnet experiments! Kids experiment with the motion of magnetic attraction during STEM-filled play sessions with Magnet Movers, one of the hands-on STEM Explorers activity sets from Learning Resources. The set’s included activity guide comes with 10 open-ended magnetism experiments that challenge kids to discover the unexpected throughout the world around them. Little scientists can interact with the set’s colorful assortment of magnetic accessories, which include everything from a hand-held magnetic wand to a magnetic post with two magnetic rings to a bar magnet with labeled positive and negative ends. Whether they’re learning lessons in polarity, testing the magnetism of common household objects, or “fishing” for paper clips with different magnetic “hooks,” kids can test their newfound familiarity with the scientific method while building crucial critical thinking, problem-solving, and fine motor skills. STEM Explorers: Magnet Movers turns the world into your child’s fun-filled laboratory.
Learn MoreMand Labs KIT-1 is a fun STEM kit for children who are 8 and over. The Mand Labs KIT-1 comes bundled with all of the needed hardware and electronic components required to build an array of 50+ projects packaged inside the box! The components have been selected after rigorous research and testing. The number and specification of the included components has been optimized based on the number and variety of experiments. The kit will allow you and your child to physically play, understand and build things. You can quickly assemble any circuit on the breadboard using Mand Labs’ instructions. Following the instructions is so easy that even a layman can build interesting circuits. You do not need to be an expert or have any prior knowledge to build circuits. This kit comes with 9 hours of complementary learning videos. The interactive videos will empower your child to self-learn at their own pace and offer a strong mix of theory, practicals and graphics. This kit is an ultimate STEM gift that will inspire and educate your child as they have fun building and following experiments.
Learn MoreMarbleocity Triple Play 4-Bar Link
Build a model of four-bar linkage! Tinkineer’s Marbleocity introduces children to engineering principles and physics concepts with dynamic hands-on STEM model kits made of precision-cut wood in the USA. Each kit includes easy-to-follow assembly instructions in a graphic novel that features the Tinkineer characters. The comic introduces a physics concept or engineering mechanism that is the focal point of the model, all in a fun and engaging way! The result is an awesome kinetic sculpture and some new physics and engineering insight! Use the hand crank or attach a motor (sold separately) to watch the marbles ascend and then flip-flop down again! It’s part of the first Marbleocity marble machine line to feature colorful plastic accents! Perfect for beginners; one hour build time. Marbleocity Triple Play 4-Bar Link can connect to other Triple Play products for bigger fun!
Learn MoreMathLink Cubes Early Math Activity Set
Build new skills one cube at a time! Kids get a hands-on lesson in early math fundamentals every time they build with the MathLink Cubes Early Math Starter Set from Learning Resources. This engaging activity set pairs 100 of our bestselling MathLink Cubes with 15 double-sided activity cards filled with 30 learning challenges that make math lessons fun. Using the colorful cubes as a handy visual aid, little learnings can learn the fundamentals of addition and subtraction, practice sequencing through color and shape recognition, or even learn about perspective through engaging 3-D building challenges. When math lessons end, MathLink Cubes double as fun building toys! The sturdy cubes come in 10 bright colors, measure 3/4″L x 3/4″H, and can be snapped together or popped apart over and over again.
Learn MoreMindware Pattern Play: Bright Colors
Problem solving becomes a rewarding work of art with Pattern Play: Color by Design! Use these brightly-colored blocks in varying shapes and the pattern cards to introduce significant math concepts like sorting, matching, symmetry, congruence and fractions. Pattern cards are numbered in order of difficulty, ranging from beginner to expert. With each dazzling build becoming more challenging, patience and confidence is gained through trial and error. The blocks can also be used to create endless freeform designs, providing hours of engaging creative play. Pattern Play is a quality learning tool that every household should own! This kit includes 40 glossy pattern cards and 40 durable wooden blocks guaranteed to last.
Learn MorePaint Your Own Stepping Stone: Cupcake
Since we gave our son the dinosaur Paint Your Own Stepping Stone, we gave this Paint Your Own Stepping Stone: Cupcake to our daughter for her birthday. A dozen vibrant paints allow for endless creativity with Paint Your Own Stepping Stones. Your child can mix, blend and add custom color accents right out of the box - no cement mixing necessary! Once painted, bake the stone in your oven for a long-lasting, weather-resistant finish. Display one stepping stone or make a whole pathway to transform your garden, backyard or patio!
Learn MorePaint Your Own Stepping Stone: Dinosaur Footprint
We gave this Paint Your Own Stepping Stone to our son for his birthday. Both of my kids LOVE these stepping stones. They love painting them, watching them bake and then displaying them outside by our walkway. The dinosaur trend is larger than life and MindWare’s newest Paint Your Own Stepping Stone: Dinosaur Footprint kit will make a giant impression! This dino footprint does double duty: first by creating mysterious tracks in the ground, then as a custom-painted garden accent. These all-weather stepping stones are ready to paint right out of the box, no messy cement-mixing required. Oven bake the painted stone for a weather-resistant finish. Kit contains 10” x 9” cement stepping stone, 12 paints, a paint brush and painting guide
Learn MorePeg Button Art Fun
The Peg Button Art Fun For Preschoolers from Skoolzy has 48 Large peg buttons and 12 easy to change illustrated image cards. The colorful kid toy come with large chunky pegs (1.25″ x 1″) in bright colors making it perfect for little baby and toddler hands. The big beads are easy to hold, pick up, match and snap to one of the corresponding colors on each picture. Peg Button Art Fun is a great learning tool perfect for every boy and girl. Learning is fun and simple with this oversized set that encourages learning through play! Ideal for engaging quiet time activities for toddlers. The toy is suitable for both girls and boys age group 1-5 years of age can be used for Montessori, occupational therapy and autism games.
Learn MorePersonalized Artist Pack from Stuck on You
This will be my daughter’s favorite Christmas present. My daughter loves writing, coloring, cutting, etc and this Personalized Artist Pack from Stuck on You is amazing. Every single item in the pack has my daughter’s name. When I created this pack I was able to choose the color and designs of the bag and pencil holder and the font on all of the items in this pack. This is an awesome back-to-school present and of course Christmas present! This amazing value pack provides your school stationery needs in one handy hit. Geared towards the creatively inclined, the vibrant pencils and markers allow little artists and dreamers to color their worlds with joy and pizzazz. They can also use their personalized stamp to ‘sign’ their masterpieces! This pack includes a drawstring bag, pencil case, colored marker set, colored pencil set, scissors, 30cm ruler, two pencils with grips, a pencil sharpener, eraser and a stamp with ink pad.
Australia based Stuck On You was founded in 1995 by Carrie Felton, a mom of three boys. Felton created Stuck On You to celebrate the individuality of every name, bring joy to new parents with unique, timeless products for every child, save families time, energy and money and help them to lead a more organized life. In addition to a broad offering of labels, the Stuck On You collection includes activity and personalized books, durable and stylish bags, lunchboxes and drink bottles, stationery, bag tags and gorgeous gifts for all ages.
Learn MorePiper Computer Kit
The Piper Computer Kit includes everything needed to teach students about computer science, electronics, and coding through Piper’s StoryMode using the Raspberry Pi Edition of Minecraft. This STEAM gift idea will teach your child (and even you) SO much about technology. Piper empowers the inventors of tomorrow by helping them make connections today. Piper helps students’ and families understand technology from the inside out. Piper inspires parents to connect with their student’s education and inspire children to feel connected to STEAM today and for the rest of their lives. Piper Computer Kit will give students the tools, information, and understanding required to be empowered in STEAM and education. Piper is centered around demystifying technology as it is a hands-on, fun, dynamic and challenging learning discovery.
Learn MoreJust one piece from the Puzzle & Perplex range. Can you take apart the pieces of each one of these puzzles and put them back together again? Made of solid steel, this set of 10 puzzles is guaranteed to get you flexing your cognitive muscles. Compete with friends and family as you test your brainpower trying to separate and reattach the parts of each puzzle.
Learn MoreOver the summer Quarto Kids launched an online STEAM community for kids, parents, educators and STEAM lovers. When you sign up for the club you will receive book and toy recommendations, discount coupons, and activity downloads. They sent me their fall book and toy STEAM picks!
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You can sign up for the Quarto STEAM Club HERE.Quercetti Georello Tech Three-Dimensional Structure
Build complex three-dimensional structures, then insert the gears and put everything in motion with a spectacular chain reaction. This clever building Quercetti Georello Tech set allows you to transmit movement also to gears very far from each other thanks to the chain. It will make your child discover and understand the basic principles of mechanics.
Learn MoreRainbow Sandland
Remember the fun of sand art? In the Creativity for Kids Rainbow Sandland kit your child can make a sandland with a rainbor and unicorn! Simply layer the vibrant colors of sand and sparkling glitter inside the clear container. Use the design tool to create lines and patterns into your sandscape. Top the sand with the handy seal, then add your friendly unicorn and stickers to complete your sand art. Includes 5 colors of sand, design tool, glitter, clear window frame and unicorn figurine. Our “less mess, more fun” version features a fitted cap to hold your sand in place.
Learn MoreReal Engineering/Real Construction: RC Robot
Become a real robotics engineer! The 728 stainless steel and plastic pieces in this Fat Brain Toys Real Engineering/Real Construction: RC Robot screw together easily and securely to build a fully functional robot featuring tank-tread wheels and a head that spins. Grab the controller and move it forward, back, and spin it around and around. Set it out as an amazing display of your engineering skills. Or, if you’re feeling extra ambitious, take it apart and try building a motorized model of your own design. The possibilities are limited only by your own ingenuity! Dive deep into STEM exploration with the Real Engineering/Real Construction RC Robot set.
Learn MoreResident DIY Paper Craft Animal Kit
Lately the DIY (do it yourself) craze has taken over! This holiday season why not give your favorite creative artist the gift they have been waiting for, a paper craft kit! With a Resident, DIY Paper Craft Animal Kit your secret Santa’s esthetic will truly shine. You can proudly display your paper masterpiece anywhere from the home, office or even a dorm room to show off your creation. These kits range in price from $25 onward. Because my daughter is obsessed with pandas, I have Resident’s Claire the Panda and am very excited to put together this craft kit!
Learn MoreRobbie is the “new and improved” version of the Smart Bot, Robbie has all the same functions as Smart Bot like 50 programmable mode actions, robotic sound, controlled with hand signals, but he lets his emotions show with 20 electronic emotional expressions. Also charges with USB.
Learn MoreRoyal Langnickel Canvas Art Marker Set
The Royal Langnickel Canvas Art Marker Set with the Dog design will be a fun activity! Simply color in the designed canvas with the six double tipped markers that are included in the set. This set is a step above coloring books. Instead of coloring in a book, use markers to color on a canvas and design a piece of art you can hang on the wall!
Learn MoreRoyal Langnickel Canvas Art Painting Set
This 9 piece Royal Langnickel Canvas Art Painting Set has all of the tools necessary to paint a beautiful night sky. The set includes a canvas with the outlined design, mixing guide, 6 tubes of acrylic paint and a paint brush. Simply fill in the designed canvas with the colors of your choice and upon completion you will have a beautiful painting. This is perfect for the beginner painter.
Learn MoreRoyal Langnickel Watercolor Color Wheel
This Royal Langnickel Watercolor Color Wheel has 17 pieces including a paint brush. This watercolor color wheel has all of the watercolor paint needed to create wonderful masterpieces.
Learn MoreSew Your Own Light-Up Circuit Art
These works of art are electrifying! In this Klutz Sew Your Own Light-Up Circuit Art, choose from 3 electric designs, and then spark your creativity by stitching sewable LEDs to a battery with conductive thread. The custom frame perfectly tucks away the included battery pack so it’s ready to hang up. Kids will be delighted that they’re learning the science of circuits and basic sewing techniques!
Learn MoreSew Your Own Unicorn Cake Pillow
Everyone’s favorite mythical creature joins forces with everyone’s favorite dessert in this super-magical kit from Klutz! With crystal-clear instructions, in the Sew Your Own Unicorn Cake Pillow kit, you’ll learn how to sew a soft and sparkly decorative pillow that looks good enough to eat using techniques like whip stitching, basting, and gathering. With plush faux fur, metallic gold lamé, iridescent pom-poms, and pre-cut felt pieces, you’ll have tons of options to decorate your cake. Add a rainbow mane, a flower crown, rock star fringe, wings, or adorable meringue dollops and then display your showstopper on the candy-colored cake stand.
Learn MoreSherlock Holmes The Case of the Priceless Coin
The chase is afoot! Navigate your way through the rooms, hallways, and hidden passages of 221B Baker Street to make your escape through the rear window. Sherlock Holmes strides through the hushed London streets carrying a priceless coin, bestowed on him in gratitude by the British Treasury. Holmes is suddenly alert to being followed and concludes that one of Moriarty’s henchmen has been sent to obtain the coin. If he can lure the villain back to 221B Baker Street, he can lead him through a game of cat and mouse before escaping and alerting Scotland Yard to arrest his trapped pursuer.
Learn MoresmART Pixelator
The smART Pixelator empowers kids to design and build 2D and 3D projects using Bluetooth connectivity, easy-to-follow lights, and smART Pixel Beads, Sequins or Pegs. Right out of the box, kids have a choice of creating 50 step-by-step designs using Pixel Beads. A smART Pixelator app and any mobile device also let them engineer their own projects, encouraging customization and experimentation. Additional beads, sequins, pegs, and projects are available to keep the fun flowing. Ideal for kids 7 to 107 years old.
Learn MoreSpace Chips 2.0 Learn Explore Build 252 STEM Set
With this larger set of 252 Space Chips you can build large Combo-Drons such as the towering Robo Dron or the 12 Dron Tube. The Space Chips 2.0 Learn Explore Build 252 STEM Set from Monkey Business Sports will have your child exploring the infinite possibilities of building as they use the 90 Triangles, 78 Squares, and 84 Pentagons to build their own creations.
Learn MoreSquare Panda
The Square Panda playset combines fun, adventure and sound teaching principles to build literacy skills in children ages 2 to 8. Square Panda’s phonics playset and SquareLand adventure world foster literacy through adaptive learning, in which the games reinforce curriculum and learning patterns based on each child’s mastery of the skills presented, and through multisensory elements that let children touch and place plastic letters on the playset. The more that a child plays with the Square Panda playset, the more the adaptive system learns and customizes the experience for them. The games ensure that children are always in an optimal learning zone: challenged, but never overwhelmed.
The Square Panda playset includes:
- Bluetooth-enabled playset with a new smart screen
- 45 Smart Letters
- Compact stackable design
- Drawstring storage bag for letters
- Parent Portal to monitor children’s progress in mastering literacy skills
- Compatibility with most versions of iPad and Android tablets, and many smartphones
- In addition to the SquareLand mini-games, parents can download additional free learning games available on the App Store or Google Play for use with the Square Panda playset.
STEM at Play MAGNETS! Super Experiment Kit
Explore the science behind magnetism with the STEM at Play MAGNETS! Super Experiment Kit. Use real lab tools and materials to perform amazing experiments and experience what it’s like to think like a scientist or an engineer. Become an expert in all things magnetic. The fact-filled guide is chock-full of pictures and information needed for hours of experimentation in your own home laboratory! STEM at play kits bring science concepts to life through hands-on activities designed to spark interest, inspire confidence, prompt creative critical-thinking skills while fostering collaboration between children and adults. STEM at play kits provide materials to support scholastic goals while keeping at-home learning fun.
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Inspired by binary code, the language of computers, this series of 52 clever challenges is designed to put your brain through its paces! Will you prove to be a techno whizz or will you have a system overload?
Arrange the wooden pegs so that:
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1. Each row and column contains the same amount of 1’s and 0’s
2. Each row and column forms a unique pattern
3. There are never more than two 1’s or more than two 0’s next to each other horizontally or verticallySTEM Pentomino and Puzzle Cards
Just one piece from our brain-busting STEM puzzle range! Initially, playing with the shapes may seem confusing, but look at them from the right angle and everything will suddenly line up! Use different combinations of the 12 pentominoes to tackle the 40 challenges on the enclosed cards and see how you “shape up”!
Learn MoreStitch + Sound: Sew a Singing Bluebird Kit
Combine you love of nature and passion for making things to create a delightful singing bluebird. With this kit, you’ll create an accurate and beautiful felt model of a bluebird that can be displayed in your home. The included sound module plays the bird’s call whenever the finished model is squeezed. The 32-page paperback book contains step-by-step instructions with gorgeous photos of the process, plus fun facts about bluebirds. You’ll learn skills like pattern reading, hand sewing, three-dimensional construction, embroidery, and beadwork.
Learn MoreYou’ll be hooked on these ten super cute crochet animals! The Super Cute Crochet kit includes all the materials you’ll need to create a snuggly koala and an adorable penguin: yarn, a crochet hook, a metal tapestry needle, fiberfill stuffing, and two pairs of safety eyes. The 80-page paperback instruction book contains photos and illustrations to guide you in making all ten projects. If you squeal with delight over furry and fuzzy creatures, you’ll be hooked on making these super cute animals.
Learn MoreSurprise Ride - Build Beeswax Candle
Get your young one’s mind buzzing with the wonderful world of bees! The fun begins with an adventure as kids follow Bethany the Bee in her first flight outside the hive - A riveting story told in fun, full-color photos. Then, the fun soars smoothly into learning as kids explore and discover just how important bees are to the rest of the natural world. (Here’s a hint: They’re EXTREMELY important!) Finally, it’s time to get crafty… Using the included, 100% natural beeswax, kids will get to create their own, beautiful, colorful candles that they can make as decorative as they like! The number of candles they can make depends on how large they make each candle. (At least 4 and up to 8 average size candles.) Complete with an authentic honey dipper and a wooden candle holder, the Surprise Ride Build Beeswax Candles Activity Kit is a bee-autiful experience that’s sure to get kids buzzing with excitement and inspiration.
Learn MoreThames & Kosmos Simple Machines
Jumpstart your study of mechanical physics by learning all about simple machines and how they’re used to make complex tasks easier to do. The seesaw at the playground, the wheelbarrow in your backyard, the flagpole in front of your school — all of these are examples of simple machines in the real world! So start building, investigating, and experimenting to discover how physics is all around us using this awesome Thames & Kosmos Simple Machines kit. Through 26 model-building exercises, you’ll investigate all six classic simple machines — wheels and axles, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, and wedges — as well as gears. Start off with simple models to gain a firm understanding of the basic principles at play, and then move onto larger, more complex models to push the machines harder and see how they can work together. Also included is a specially designed spring scale so that you can measure how the machines change the direction and magnitude of forces, making work easier to do.
Learn MoreThe Kindness Rocks Project Deluxe Rock Painting Kit
This is an awesome family gift idea! Create random art of kindness with the official painting kit of The Kindness Rocks Project. One message at just the right moment can change someone’s entire day … outlook … life! Leave rocks at your local park, playground, or library - anywhere you think someone could use some inspiration. Read more about rock painting. The Kindness Rocks Project Deluxe Rock Painting Kit was put together after much time searching for the highest quality rock painting supplies. It is much larger than other kits with enough paint to paint about 40-60 rocks, depending on how much paint you use.
Learn MoreTinkering Labs The Electric Motors Catalyst
The Tinkering Labs The Electric Motors Catalyst Kit is a STEM building kit that provides hands-on fun without any screens! The possibilities are endless with Tinkering Labs Electric Motor Catalyst Kit. This kit will introduce your child to electronics as they learn how to build wooden robots,electric vehicle toys, doodling robots, and more! Your child can even combine multiple tinker kits to create bigger and more powerful innovations. They can connect LEGO robotics or other objects to their creations for a unique tinkering combination! Each kit comes with over 50 parts and 10 Challenge Cards (which will inspire your child to create inventions) and a 22-Page Building Techniques Booklet.
Learn MoreUBTECH JIMU Robot Mythical Series: Firebot Kit
Create your own mythical FireBot, thanks to the magic of JIMU Robot with UBTECH JIMU Robot Mythical Series: Firebot Kit! This legendary FireBot kit has everything kids need to create a buildable, codable robot or to invent your own. Download the FREE JIMU app that has step-by-step, 3D, 360° instructions. The fun is extended with the Blockly coding platform, allowing kids to build and code this epic creature. Fire up your imagination with FireBot and tame your own dragon.
Learn MoreWalthers “Ready For Fun” Starter Train Set
Are you looking for a way to get your children off screens and spend time as a family? Walthers “Ready For Fun” Starter Train Set are a great way to engage the whole family in a project that marries artistic crafting elements with the joy of engineering! This train set is easy to set up. This Walthers Trainline HO Scale Ready-for-Fun Train Set includes everything you need for a great start in model railroading. The set includes durable cars, locomotive, snap-together track and a speed and direction controller. There’s also a 60-minute DVD with tips for building your first layout. AND, Addicted to Saving readers can save 15% by using promo code TRAINS19
Each Walthers “Ready For Fun” Starter Train Set includes:
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• Powered diesel locomotive with working headlight
• 50′ Plug Door Boxcar - Soo Line
• 50′ Flatcar - Burlington Northern
• 50′ Gondola - Illinois Terminal
• Wide Vision Caboose (matches locomotive as noted)
• Speed and direction controller
• Huge 38 x 54″ 0.9 x 1.3m oval of snap-together Bachmann EZ-Track(R) withsteel rail
• World’s Greatest Hobby 60-Minute “Building Your First Railroad” DVDWhizKidsLab 4PCS Real Bugs STEM Set + Magnifier + Fun Fact Sheet Poster
This is a STEM set for kids who love bugs! These are real bugs, beautifully preserved in clear acrylic blocks, allowing kids to hold the bugs in hand without actually touching them. Bug lovers can view them up close and at every angle. Kids who fear bugs can gradually get close to the bugs without actually touching them and learn to observe them. The insect blocks are sized to fit little hands.This STEM set is suitable for kids aged 4 or older. It features a selection of two insects and two arachnids that are not easily found in your garden. They have lots of interesting features to fascinate kids: SCARAB BEETLE with metallic sheen shell; STAG BEETLE with long antler horns; SPIDER with eight long legs; SCORPION with a stinger at the end of the long tail. This set also comes with a colorful magnifying lens in bug design to encourage kids to use it to take a closer view of the bugs. There is also full-color poster featuring different bugs on one side and fun facts about these four bugs on the other side. Adults can read fun facts with the kids to guide them in identifying different features of bugs and training them to observe.
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Thanks for coming to Addicted to Saving! Here’s a little bit about me so you can know who’s behind all these posts!
My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..
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