Heartland Regional
Library System

I Love
Animals Kit

Interest Grades:
PK-3

Kit includes:

• Book: Pets

• Examine and Treat Pet Vet Play Set

• Zoo on the Loose Game

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.

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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

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. 

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All About Magnets

Grade Interest: PK-3

Kit includes:

• Book: Magnets Push, Magnets Pull

• Magnet Movers Experiments

• Magnets Activity Set

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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

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.

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Building and Design Kit

Interest grades: 4+

Kit includes:

• Book: From an Idea to Lego

• City Engineering and Building Set

• Brain Builders Keva Plank Set

Dive into a behind-the-bricks look at the beloved LEGO toy with this hands-on STEAM kit. Kids can take what they learned in the world of LEGO engineering and apply it to the KEVA Brain Builders and City Engineer sets which give you the tools to design and build creations to solve challenges.

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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

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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.

Estimation and Patterns

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Interest Grade: 4+

Kit includes:

• Book: How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit on a Plane?

• Book: Greater Estimations

• Centimeter Cubes

• Make a Splash 120 Activity Mat

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.  The books support estimation and visualization in a high-interest manner.

Food and Nutrition

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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.

Engineering Gears and Mazes

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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.

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.

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Math Patterns and Tactile Kit

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

• Book: How Many?

• Imagination Patterns Set

• Teaching Tac-Tiles Set

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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

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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. 

My Amazing Body

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Kit includes:

• Book: Me and My Amazing Body

• Double-Sided Magnetic Human Body

• Human Heart Model

• Human Brain Model

Interest Grades: 4+

From your head to your toes, this 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.

Explore the Outdoors

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Interest Grades: 4+

Kit includes:

• Book: Nate Investigates Life Cycle

• Aqua Viewer Telescope

• Explorer Scope

This kit encourages kids to explore the great outdoors. Perfect for nature walks and backyard exploration with the submergible Aqua Viewer and Explorer Scope for both up-close examination of everything from rocks to bugs or once expanded, things far away or high in the sky. Perfect for STEM learning and exploration on the go.

Pete the Cat Loves 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

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.

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Phonics

Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

• Book: Owly The Way Home

• Reading Rods Word for Word Phonics Word Building Game

• Hot Dots Jr. Phonics Fun!

• Phonics Dominoes

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This phonics set comes packed with value. 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 AR 2.0 graphic novel.

Ready, Set, Kindergarten!

Kit includes:

• Book: My First Day of School 

• All Ready for Kindergarten Set

• Time Activity Set

Interest Grades: PK-3

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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

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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.

Rocks and Fossils

Interest Grades: 4+

Kit includes:

• Book: Rocks Fossils Minerals and Gems

• Fossils Collection

• Mineral Collection

• GeoSafari Stereoscope

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Read all about rocks, fossils, minerals, and gems, and get an in depth in person look and feel at the same time. Learn about geology hands on with this stereoscope featuring 10X and 20x magnification and a top mounted LED light for great views of the collection of 12 rock samples, 9 fossils, and 12 minerals included with the kit. 

Examine Science and Nature

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Kit includes:

• Book: Smithsonian 10 Minute Science Experiments

• Handheld Mini Microscope

• 12 Specimen Slides with 36 Assorted Specimens

• Brainbox Science and Nature Game

Interest Grades: 4+

Let's go and explore! This kit encourages kids to explore everyday items in their house, backyard, or on a nature walk. The Handheld Mini Microscope and Specimen slides give 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.

Stamps and Drawing

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Interest Grades: PK-3

Kit includes:

• Fingerprint & Draw Animals and Insects

• Rainbow Stamp Pad

• Deluxe Animals Wooden Stamp Set

This 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.

Starting to Spell

Kit includes:

• Book: You Can Read, Pout-Pout Fish!

• Spelling Puzzle Cards

• See & Spell Classic Toy

• 3-Letter Word Puzzle Cards

Interest Grades: PK-3

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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.

The Shape of Things

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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.

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

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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

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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.

Yoga for Mindfulness Kit

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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.