STEM Stocking Stuffers for Kid Engineers

Do you have a child in your life who loves tinkering and building? Engineering toys develop so many important learning skills and behaviours, including  problem solving skills, analytical and critical thinking skills, creativity, intellectual curiosity, flexibility and perseverance – all while your child plays! And these STEM toys are not just for little kids – there are ideas for preschoolers through to elementary school kids, as well as games for your family game nights. That’s fun for everyone!

Toys for Preschool & Kindergarten Engineers

Please be advised: some of these kits contain small pieces and are not suitable for use by very young children without supervision.

Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Building Kit

Kid K’Nex Build a Bunch Kit

Light Stax Illuminated Blox Mega Set

Kids First Robots Engineer Kit

Dizzy Fun Land Motorised Gears Set

Fat Brain Toys OffBits

Querceti Tubation Pipeline Building Kit

Kapla Planks

Wedgits Junior Building Blocks

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Toys For School Aged Kids

Strawbees Inventor Builder Kit with Strawbees Pocketful of Ideas Creative Card Deck

Craft-Tactic Inventor’s Box Creative Challenge Craft Kit

Goldie Blox Craft-Struction Box

4M Magnet Science Kit

4M Doodling Robot Kit

Snap Circuits Lights Electronics Kit

Snap Circuits Remote Controlled Snap Rover Kit

Snap Circuits FM Radio Kit

Star Wars Droid Inventors Kit

3Doodler 3D Robotics Themed Printing Pen Set

STEM Games for Family Time

Gravity Maze Puzzle Game

Melissa & Doug Suspend Game

Dr Eureka’s Speed Logic Game

Circuit Maze Board Game

Books for Builders!

Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects – DK Children

The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn – Colleen Graves

Iggy Peck’s Big Project Book for Amazing Architects – Andrea Beaty

Rosie Revere’s Big Project Book For Bold Engineers – Andrea Beaty

Gizmos & Gadgets: Creating Science Contraptions That Work (& Knowing Why) – Jill Frankel Hauser

The Robot Book: Build & Control 20 Electric Gizmos, Moving Machines, and Hacked Toys – Bobby Mercer

Each item in this collection is linked to an Amazon page where you can find further information about the product, including reviews and age recommendations. These are affiliate links.