These STEM Kits were made possible through a generous grant from the
Robert and Helen Remick Charitable Foundation Trust.
Location: Jackson Library
Programmable Bee robot ideal for teaching control, directional language and programming to young children. Kit includes 3 different mats: Shapes, Color and Size, Farm, and Zoo.
Recommended for Ages 3+ with Adult Supervision
Location: Heron Lake Library
Get a closer look and learn all about the birds of North America. Use the kit to count how many different birds you can find while exploring the outdoors!
Recommended for Ages 3+
Location: Lakefield Library
Cubetto is the friendly wooden robot that will teach your child the basics of computer programming through adventure and hands on play.
Recommended for Ages 3+ with Adult Supervision
Location: Heron Lake Library
This building toy gives children a resource for learning and enjoying themselves at the same time. The K'NEX building system contains plastic rods and connectors that join up with a satisfying "click"! They can be assembled to create working vehicles, animals, moving structures, buildings, and just about anything else your child can imagine.
Recommended for Ages 8+
Location: Jackson Library
Explore your artistic nature, problem solve and engage in play with KEVA planks. Use KEVA Planks to invent and build structures together. You build structures by simply stacking the planks. Discover the joy of creating original works of art or cleverly designed contraptions.
Recommended for Ages 5+
Location: Jackson Library
This kit contains a variety of supplies to help you get started on your first knitting project.
Recommended for Ages 6+
Location: Jackson Library
Amaze your family and friends with cool magic tricks!
Recommended for Ages 8+
Location: Jackson Library
Children can explore math and science concepts through hands-on, imaginative play with Magna-Tiles.
Recommended for Ages 3+
Location: Lakefield Library
Turn the whole world into a keyboard! It's a simple invention kit for beginners or experts doing art, engineering, and everything in between. No matter if your child is a budding engineer, computer wiz, or amateur inventor, this invention kit will bring out their creativity in unique and fun ways. There are thousands of possibilities to build, interact, and inspire!
Recommended for Ages 8+
Location: Heron Lake Library
Makey Makey Go is a kit that helps you turn everyday objects into touchpads that control your computer's keyboard. You will learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving.
Recommended for Ages 6+ with Adult Supervision
Location: Jackson Library
This kit is designed to inspire kids to learn more about science. Microscopes are important tools which help children understand science and nature by allowing them to peek into the microscopic world. Explore, Learn, Grow!
Recommended for Ages 8+ with Adult Assistance
Location: Lakefield Library
There's no better way to introduce children or adults to the joys of music because making beautiful music doesn’t get any easier. Anyone can play – just slide a song sheet under the strings and follow the lines. It’s that easy!
Recommended for Ages 3 through 15
Location: Jackson Library
This unique activity kit is popular with young naturalists, environmental educators, and parents who have access to a pond or stream. Search for whirligig beetles, dragonflies, toe-biters, water striders, and backswimmers!
Recommended for Ages 3+ with Adult Supervision
Location: Jackson Library
Ozobots are designed to make STEAM simple for educators and parents. Discover a solution to bring coding & creativity to your home or classroom using the enclosed leaflets for guidance. Teach yourself to code with Evo screen-free, with the stroke of a marker. Advance with OzoBlockly visual programming using 150+ STEAM Lessons on ozoblockly.com. Discover K-12 lessons on STEM subjects & beyond (including art, history, & more!)
Recommended for Ages 5+ with Adult Supervision
Location: Lakefield Library
Qubits are designed to challenge builders of all ages to sit down and create using geometric modular pieces that doesn’t rely on instruction.
Recommended for Ages 6+
Location: Heron Lake Library
As kids learn to program they build key skills that include critical thinking, problem solving, sequencing, and programming fundamentals.
Recommended for Ages 4+ with Adult Assistance
Location: Lakefield Library
Inspire future engineers by exploring effort, force, load, motion, and distance with simple machines. Youth use fine motor skills to construct and examine simple machines and develop a deeper understanding of how they work.
Recommended for Ages 8+
Location: Jackson Library
Snap Circuits® teaches basic engineering, electronics and circuitry concepts by using building components with snaps to assemble electronic circuits on a simple “rows-and-columns” base grid. Make learning electronics a snap!
Recommended for Ages 8+
Location: Lakefield Library
Telescopes offer inspirational contexts for a wide range of STEM learning, for learners from 9-18 including physics, biology, chemistry and computing.
Recommended for Ages 8+ with Adult Supervision
