STEAM Kits: Pre K to 3rd Grade

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.