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STEAM TO GO!

PK - 3rd Grade

Lace, Stack, and Sort

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-K

Kit includes:

  • Book: Baby Einstein

  • Primary Lacing Beads

  • Geometric Stacker

  • Shape Sorting Cube

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

Learn to Measure

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-K

Kit includes:

  • Book: Measuring at Home

  • Let's Learn to Measure Activity Set

  • Hexagram Metric Weight Set

  • Simple Tape Measure

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

Outdoors Adventures Pretend Play

from Penworthy

Kit includes:

  • Book: I Am Brave

  • New Sprouts Camp Out

  • Pretend & Play Fishing Set

  • Pretend & Play Camp Set

Interest Grades: PK-K

It's time to head outside with this imaginative play kit focused on camping and fishing. Read a great story about camping in the Acorn Reader "I Am Brave" and build your own scene as well.

Tot Time Game Night

Kit includes:

  • Book: Family Game Night

  • Snails Pace

  • Heads Talk Tails Walk

  • The World of Eric Carle Matching

Interest Grades: PK-K

from Penworthy

It's game night for your youngest patrons 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 at the library.

STEM in Motion

Kit includes:

  • Book: Flash Facts

  • STEM Explorers Motioneering

  • STEM Explorers Marble Runners

  • Roller Coaster Challenge

Interest Grades: 1+

from Penworthy

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. Grab some science facts from the Flash as a balance and keep learning fun and engaging.

All About Magnets

Grade Interest: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Magnets Push, Magnets Pull

  • Magnet Movers Experiments

  • Magnets Activity Set

from Penworthy

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 Creative Kit

Interest Grade: PK - 3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Fun & Easy Crafting With Recycled Materials

  • Rainbow Cord Picture and Pattern Maker

  • Spindoodle Game

from Penworthy

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. Eco-friendly adults can help their kids make 60 cool crafts using the Penworthy Prebound book included.

I Love Animals Kit

Interest Grades:
PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Pets

  • Examine and Treat Pet Vet Play Set

  • Zoo on the Loose Game

from Penworthy

This 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. Kids learn facts about everything from guppies to puppies in the included book.

All About Dinosaurs

Interest grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: What If You Had T.Rex Teeth!?

  • Dinosaur Escape Game

  • Jumbo Dinosaurs

  • Dinosaur Reusable Sticker Tote

from Penworthy

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 strategies to rescue the dinos from volcanic eruption. 

Castles and Dragons STEM Kit

Interest grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Mystery of the Dragon Eggs

  • Coding Critters MagiCoders: Blazer the Dragon

  • Engineering & Design Castle Building Set

from Penworthy

Coding with a dragon and castle engineering bring together imaginative play and early STEM learning. Multiple challenges and fantasy fun with parental help or alone.

Construction and Building Kit

Interest grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Ninja on the Job 

  • Construction Building Set
  • 100 Piece Wood Blocks Set

     

from Penworthy

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 Kit

Grade Interest: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Friends Make Me Feel Razzmatazz!

  • Friends & Neighbors Matching Game

  • Guess It, Get It, Gumballs Game

from Penworthy

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This kit helps kids learn about their feelings and recognize them in others. The interactive games help build empathy and requires teamwork to win while helping kids develop memory, cooperation, and shared decision-making 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

from Penworthy

Interest grades: K+

Kit includes:

  • Book: Make This

  • Q-Ba-Maze Rails Builder Set

  • Gears! Gears! Gears! Machines in Motion Building Set

Hands-on crafts, rolling marble gravity mazes, and machines that move, this 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 like critical thinking through trial and error. Colorful pieces help keep kids engaged and drive imaginative thinking. Get the ball rolling and the gears cranking with this great kit.

Flowers and Unicorns STEM Kit

from Penworthy

Interest Grade: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Uni Brings Spring

  • Coding Critters MagiCoders: Skye the Unicorn

  • Build and Bloom Building Set

Coding with a unicorn and gears and engineering with flowers offers early STEM learning and imaginative play. With a variety of challenges and play options available this colorful kit is sure to entrance future programmers and engineers.

Food and Nutrition

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Our Food

  • Healthy Helpings MyPlate Game

  • New Sprouts Grow It!

  • Farmer's Market Color Sorting Set

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.

Learn to Move and Play

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Jump

  • Get Up for Pup Game

  • Duck Duck Dance Game

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 their parents as they learn what animals can jump along with them.

Letters and Numbers Kit

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Dr. Seuss's ABC

  • Self-Correcting 1-20 Number Puzzles

  • Alphabet Bingo - Learn Uppercase Letters

  • Design & Drill ABCs and 123s

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.

from Penworthy

Math Patterns and Tactile Kit

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: How Many?

  • Imagination Patterns Set

  • Teaching Tac-Tiles Set

from Penworthy

This 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.

Money, Math, and Economics

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Prices! Prices! Prices!

  • Buy It Right Shopping Game

  • Teaching ATM Bank

from Penworthy

This kit introduces the concept of money recognition, money management, and math skills using play money in a hands-on play environment. The kit encourages interactive play to help children buy, sell, and learn the value of money and teach basic financial literacy concepts. The included book explains in simple language and with colorful graphics basic laws of supply and demand. 

Paw Patrol Play Kit

Kit includes:

  • Book: You Can Do It!

  • Paw Patrol Activity Rug - Adventure Bay

  • Paw Patrol Hand Puppets

  • Paw Patrol Magnetic Pretend Play

Interest Grades: PK-K

from Penworthy

​It's all Paw Patrol in this kit. Join Chase, Marshall, Skye and other characters exploring Adventure Bay with multiple imaginative and pretend play options sure to entice any fan and create some new ones.

Pete the Cat Loves Pre-School

Kit includes:

  • Book: Pete the Cat's Family Road Trip

  • Book: Pete the Cat - Super Pete 

  • Hot Dots Jr. Pete the Cat I Love Preschool

  • Hot Dots Jr. Pete the Cat Preschool Rocks!

Interest Grades: PK-3

from Penworthy

Settle in with your preschooler and Pete the Cat. Enjoy two great books and a variety of lessons with Pete the Cat. This kit featuring 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.

Police and Firefighter Play Kit

Kit includes:

  • Book: A Trip to the Fire Station with Sesame Street

  • Design & Drill Bolt Buddies Police Motorcycle

  • Design & Drill Bolt Buddies Fire Truck

  • Keys & Cars Rescue Garage

Interest Grades: PK-3

Head to the fire station with Elmo and then play with these buildable police motorcycle, firetruck, and interactive keys & cars garage. Imaginative play meets early building, construction and fine motor play sure to delight any kid.

from Penworthy

Ready, Set, Kindergarten!

Kit includes:

  • Book: My First Day of School 

  • All Ready for Kindergarten Set

  • Time Activity Set

Interest Grades: PK-3

from Penworthy

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.

Robotics and Coding

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Robots Can't Dance!

  • Let's Go Code! Activity Set

  • Coding Critters Ranger & Zip Activity Set

from Penworthy

The world of coding continues to expand every day. This kit is full of fun facts about robots, computers, x-rays, and other cool technology and inventions. Kids will get active with the interactive coding games that keep bodies busy while brains gain valuable practice in sequencing, decision making, and following commands just like a computer.

The Shape of Things

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: A Trapezoid is Not a Dinosaur

  • Geometric Shapes

  • Geometric Shapes Building Set

  • Primary Shapes Template Set

Drive learning about shapes in 2D and 3D with this kit. Play with large plastic shapes, draw two dimensional shapes and build both flat and three dimensional shapes across this kit's activities. Supplement this engaging tactile learning expereince with a great book A Trapezoid Is Not A Dinosaur.

Sounds, Music, and Band

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: I Love You, Baby Shark

  • Band-in-a-Box Clap! Clang! Tap!

  • Band-in-a-Box Hum! Jungle! Shake!

from Penworthy

Children will delight in this silly sing-along story with funny, eye-popping illustrations and information 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.

Stamps and Drawing Kit

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Fingerprint & Draw Animals and Insects

  • Rainbow Stamp Pad

  • Deluxe Animals Wooden Stamp Set

from Penworthy

This Art focused STEAM kit encourages everyone to make art, no matter how small the artist. Create animals and insects with finger printing and complete the masterpiece by stamping your favorite animals around the page.

Stamps and Stencils Kit

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Ralph Maiello's Alien Drawing Book

  • 1 Wood Stamp Set - Animals

  • 1 Stencil Art Activity Set

  • 1 Wooden Favorite Things Stamp Set

from Penworthy

Have fun and get creative with this collections of stamps and stencils. Featuring 64 wooden stamps, stamp pads, 12 themed stencil sheets, a rubbing plate for textures, and more, kids can work on their art and imaginative play. Kids will learn how create freehand drawings with Ralph Maiello's Alien Drawing offering clear, linear steps to create the amazing images in the book.

Starting to Spell

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: You Can Read, Pout-Pout Fish!

  • Spelling Puzzle Cards

  • See & Spell Classic Toy

  • 3-Letter Word Puzzle Cards

from Penworthy

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 level 1 reader.

Trucks and Tools

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: Dump Truck Disco

  • Design and Drill Bolt Buddies Pick-It-Up Truck

  • Big Rig Building Set

from Penworthy

This kit is designed for the young gearhead. The two-piece tractor-trailer and the Design & Drill Bolt Buddies are interactive hands-on manipulatives for building fine motor skills. Kid-friendly tools are designed for tiny hands and encourage creativity and problem-solving skills. Kids will be enchanted with the adventures of Dump Truck Daisy and her night construction mission too. 

Understanding Our Universe

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: The Big Beyond

  • Giant Inflatable Solar System

  • Shining Stars Projector

Learn about the position, order, size, and shape of the planets using inflatable models. Project real images of our solar system including stars, planets and galaxies. Take a journey through the story of space travel and how our exploration of it has developed.

World of Colors

from Penworthy

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

  • Book: ZigZag ZooBorns

  • Chugga Choo Game

  • Splash of Color Magnetic Sorting Set

  • Avalanche Fruit Stand Game

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 Kit

from Penworthy

Kit includes:

  • Book: Yoga For Kids

  • Yoga Spinner Game

  • Yoga Dice Game

Interest Grades: PK-3

Namaste should be in every child's vocabulary. 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.

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