All STEAM Kits

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All About Dinosaurs

Interest Grade: PK – 3

Explore what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw that you had become part dino! Enjoy imaginative play with dinosaur figures and reusable sticker scenes. Dinosaur Escape allows kids to work together, use their memory, and incorporate simple strategy to rescue the dinos from volcanic eruption.

All About Magnets

Interest Grade: PK – 3

Kids will be pulled toward this Steam kit with it’s hands-on introduction to the fascinating powers of magnets. STEAM lessons are irresistible when you add the excitement of fun, colorful tools to scientific exploration!

Arts and Crafts

Interest Grade: K-4

The Arts and Crafts Creative Kit lets kids express their creativity using a variety of materials and recycled items for hours of fun. The hands-on manipulatives can be used individually or as a group for left brain development and critical reasoning skills.

Berenstain Bears Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Join Mama, Papa, Brother, and Sister Bear on a reading adventure with the Berenstain Bears phonics kit, featuring a 12-book Berenstain Bears phonics set, leveled reader, wipe-off phonics workbooks, and two activities. The first is three sets of soft foam phonics cubes and a second is a game focused on sight words.

Biscuit Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Silly puppy, this kit is for readers. The Biscuit Phonics Kit features a 12 book Biscuit phonics set, leveled reader, Wipe-Off phonics workbooks and two phonics games. The first is a reading rods phonics game and a second is a quick card based phonics game.

Building and Design

Interest Grades: 4+

Dive into the Building and Design STEAM kit with hands-on activities. Children can explore their creativity and design skills through the KEVA Brain Builder activity. The City Engineering set allows children to engage their engineering and design abilities.

Castles and Dragons

Interest Grades: PK-3

Learn to code with Blazer the Dragon or play with gears to engineer and design castles. This kit offers early STEM learning and imaginative play. Multiple challenges and fantasy fun with parental help or alone.

Construction and Building

Interest Grade: PK – 3

This Engineering focused STEAM kit encourages young readers to become interested in construction and engineering while they are still learning basic life skills. This fun reader following a ninja visiting a construction site, paired with construction blocks can keep little ones happy and busy while channeling their inner engineers.

Engineering Gears and Mazes

Interest Grades: K-3

Hands on crafts, rolling marble gravity mazes, and machines that move, the Engineering Gears and Mazes kit has all the enrichment a future engineer could need. With open ended play and building options, these items help kids learn and build STEM skills, such as critical thinking through trial and error. Get the ball rolling and the gears cranking with this great kit.

Emotions and Empathy

Interest Grade: PK – 3 |

The Emotions & Empathy Kit helps kids learn about their feelings and recognize them in others. The games help build empathy, mindfulness, drive conversation, and build cooperation skills. The storybook helps kids imagine how dreary their world would be without friends using Crayola colors to express how their friends make them feel.

Estimation and Patterns

Interest Grade: 4+

Kids practice place value, estimation and operation concepts with a 1,000 piece centimeter cubes set helping them visualize quantities with ease. The 120 Activity Mat immerses kids into number concepts through 120 and teaches place value and number patterns. Books support estimation and visualization in a high-interest manner.

Examine Science and Nature

Interest Grade: 4+

The Examine Science and Nature Kit encourages kids to explore everyday items in their house, backyard or on a nature walk. The Handheld Mini Microscope and Specimen slides gives children a lens into assorted specimens including: algae, fish scales, coffee, grasshopper, silk to name a few. The fun and memory boosting game features essential science and nature topics to teach life science topics.

Explore Circuits

Interest Grades: 4+

Play and learn with this circuits kit. Develop problem solving, cause and effect, and logic skills in this addictive marble circuits game. Learn the fundamentals of circuitry with this imaginative play set made to teach key engineering and design principles.

Explore the Outdoors

Interest Grade: 4+

The Explore the Outdoor kit encourages kids to explore the great outdoors. Perfect for nature walks and backyard exploration with the submersible SeaScope and 2-1 Explorer Scope for up-close examination of everything from rocks to bugs. Perfect for STEM learning and exploration on the go!

Family Game Night

Interest Grades: 4+

Break away from screens and engage with this collection of games for children 10 and up. Villains, monsters, and a survival game are sure to engage kids. Small group play at the library or fun at home.

Fancy Nancy Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Ooo-la-la, a Fancy Nancy Phonics kit is here featuring a 12 book Fancy Nancy phonics set, leveled reader, Wipe-Off phonics workbooks and two activities. The first is a interactive phonics activity featuring a talking pen to guide answers and the second is a fun game focused on sight words.

Food and Nutrition

Interest Grade: PK – 3

Get kids talking about the science of food, the five food groups, and the composition of a healthy meal. Practice healthy meal building skills with the Healthy Helpings Game. Learn how to garden with pretend flower pots, watering cans, a shovel, plants and vegetables. Then develop color recognition and sorting skills with bushels of produce, and learn the nutritional value of eating the rainbow.

I Love Animals

Interest Grades: PK-3

The I Love Animals kit gives young animal lovers a chance to become a veterinarian for a day and interact with animals. The hands-on manipulatives promote STEM careers, builds memory, and develops empathy skills.

Lace, Stack, and Sort

Interest Level: Pre-K

Help preschoolers explore colors, shapes, organization, fine motor skills and more with this kit. Great for parents of our youngest patrons to take home or use in preschool setting.

Learn to Measure

Interest Level: Grade PK-3

Science, technology, engineering, and math all require precision, and this kit kickstarts learning about the basics of measuring. Mass, length, volume, and fractional relationships are all introduced in this early introduction to measuring.

Learn to Move and Play

Interest Grade: PK-3

This kit is focused towards preschool age kids with two fun games to help them get up and move. These games help develop gross motor skills in a fun manner. Children will learn how to listen and follow directions, take turns, and imitation. Kids will enjoy reading this simple book with an adult as they learn what animals can jump along with them.

Lego Star Wars Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Feel the Force in this Lego Star Wars phonics kit featuring a Lego Star Wars phonics book set, leveled reader, Wipe-Off phonics workbooks and two activities. The first is three sets of soft foam phonics cubes and a second is a collection of phonics dominoes allowing kids to build hundreds of words.

Let’s Explore Space

Interest Level: Grade 4+

Learn and explore space with this kit that includes a telescope, constellation and solar system projector, and book about stars and galaxies. Drive interest in STEM and exploration!

Letters and Numbers

Interest Grade: PK-3

Help your kid establish a strong base for all future learning with this kit focused on learning the alphabet and numbers. Kids will love Dr. Seuss’s ABC along with Alphabet Bingo and self correcting number puzzles. Keep kids actively engaged in learning with building letters and numbers with a kid safe drill toy to tie it all together.

Little Critter Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Work on reading with a classic in this kit featuring a 12 book Little Critter phonics set, leveled reader, Wipe-Off phonics workbook and two activities. The first is a fun phonics card game and a second is an interactive phonics activity featuring an interactive talking pen.

Machines and Contraptions

Interest Grades: 4+

Students construct, examine, and explain simple machines to develop a deeper understanding of how they make work easier. KEVA planks build an early understanding of proportion and balance, while teaching basic principles of physics and engineering.

Makey Makeys

Interest Grade: 4+

Using an internet connected device to run Scratch, a Makey Makey Kit allows you to use a basic circuit board to create touch sensitive controllers that can be used to interact with games, play music, and much more!

Each kit comes with all the wires, tape, pencils, and other goodies you need to get started! For more information, you can see our Makey Makey playlist on our TeenSpot YouTube channel.

Math Games

Interest Grade: 3+

Partying dinos explain estimation in this entertaining introduction by a tried-and-true team of fun math book creators. How much pizza do you need for a dinosaur party? If you don’t know exactly, you have to estimate! This lively introduction to the mathematical concept of estimation is straightforward and fun.

Math Patterns

Interest Grade: PK – 3

This Math focused STEAM kit encourages critical thinking and sparks memorable mathematical conversations. Colorful, engaging pieces with rich textures provide a great way to encourage a child’s sense and strengthen fine motor skills.

My Amazing Body

Interest Grades: 4+

From your head to your toes, the My Amazing Body kit is an introduction to anatomy and explains the important parts of your body. The hands-on manipulatives for the heart, brain and skeleton will provide children an in-depth look into the human body and create an appreciation for everything their bodies can do.

Outdoor Adventure Play

Interest Grades: PK-3

It’s time to head outside with this imaginative play kit focused on camping and fishing. Read a great nonfiction book about camping and use the images to help build your own scene as well.

Paw Patrol Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Paw Patrol is on a roll in this phonics set featuring a Paw Patrol phonics book set, leveled reader, Wipe-Off phonics workbook and two activities. The first is three sets of soft foam phonics cubes and a second is a game focused on sight words.

Peppa Pig Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

Help your kids take to reading like a pig to a puddle with this kit featuring a Peppa Pig phonics set, Peppa Pig picture book, Wipe-Off phonics workbook and two phonics games. The first is a reading rods phonics game and a second is a quick card based phonics game.

Pete the Cat Loves Preschool

Interest Grade: PK-3

Settle in with your preschooler and Pete the Cat. This kit features two interactive preschool sets promotes groovy, independent, interactive learning. Press the Pete the Cat pen on the answer for an immediate audio and visual feedback on lessons in reading, math, science, social studies, and more.

Phonics Kit

Interest Grade: PK-3

Kids can work through phonics lessons independently with Ace the talking, teaching dog pen, compete against themselves or others in a phonics word building game, or work with blends and digraphs dominoes to grow understanding of our most commonly use consonants and word families. When the play-based learning is done, put it all together and work through a great graphic novel.

Pinkalicious Phonics

Interest Grade: PK-3

This Pinkalicious themed phonics kit is Pinktastic containing a Pinkalicious phonics book set, leveled reader, Wipe-Off phonics workbooks and two activities. The first is second is a collection of phonics dominoes allowing kids to build hundreds of words and a second is a game focused on sight words.

Police and Firefighter Play

Interest Grades: PK-3

Design and build a police motorcycle, then head to the Fire Station with Elmo to build a fire truck. Imaginative play meets early building, perfect for developing fine motor skills.

Ready, Set, Kindergarten

Interest Grade: PK-3

Preparing for school doesn’t need to be a chore. The Ready, Set, Kindergarten kit is a comprehensive collection of activities and hands-on tools designed to spark curiosity while learning age appropriate subjects. Each component will help develop problem solving and fine motor skills disguised as fun.

Sound, Music, and Band

Interest Grade: PK – 3

Children will delight in this silly sing-along story with funny, eye-popping illustrations and informative picture guides to help readers to mimic and act out the hand and foot movements and develop their fine motor skills. Play along and create fun songs using the band equipment provided to encourage creative play and to help children experience the fun of making music.

Sphero Specdrums

Interest Grade: 3+

Specdrums are a wearable technology that syncs with your phone or tablet to create a color-sensitive sound-board. Use the onboard sound packs or create your own to remix music that interacts with your environment.

For more information, check out our TeenSpot YouTube channel to see exactly how it’s done.

Starting to Spell

Interest Grade: PK-3

Early reading and spelling can be a real challenge, so help keep it fun with these three early spelling puzzles featuring short words and pictures to develop a better understanding and ability for self play. Read to your kid or help them along as Pout-Pout fish learns to read with this leveled reader.

STEM in Motion

Interest Level: Grade 1+

Have loads of fun with this kit focused on making exploring STEM fun. Whether you’re looking to play with gravity with the marble run, examine engineering movement and force, or explore physics application with the roller coaster challenge this kit has you covered.

Tot Time Game Night

Interest Level: Pre-K |

It’s game night for your family with this set of games for ages 3 and up. Early cooperation and game play are sure to be a hit for parents looking to engage theirs kids at home or for kids to play together.

World of Colors

Interest Grade: PK-3

Help kids learn their colors as well as practice sorting with this great set featuring a book highlighting animal colors and patterns and three fun activities. Two games perfect for those just learning colors with matching and fine motor skills and one magnetic sorting set to round the kit out.

Yoga for Mindfulness

Interest Grade: PK-3

This kit is a delightful introduction that encourages teamwork and healthy physical activity. Designed to encourage children to experiment with basic yoga poses and build confidence using two engaging games for multiple players.

This project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.