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From DIY bridge kits to LEGO® creations and bilingual STEM books, our collection has something for every young builder. Whether they're stacking their first blocks or wiring their first circuit. It's the perfect way to spark curiosity at home, and a build up to Engineering Day on Saturday, September 26, 2026.

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Cover image of three young children holding different objects to do with engineering. Titles Engineering in purple against a green background.

Dr. Ochoa's Stellar World: Engineering (Bilingual: English/Spanish)

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Jelly Blox Newbie Kit in its original yellow packaging, featuring a translucent green squishy toy, a blue and red squeeze dispenser, and a clear bead box, with instructional graphics and a child playing with the toy.

Jelly Blox Newbie Kit Tactile Blocks

$ 22.99
$ 22.99
Front cover of the children's book 'Technology' from Lil' Steam Minds by Ellen Ochoa, published by Lil' Libros. The cover features a dark blue space-themed background with three cartoon children holding a telescope, a cat in a space suit, and a red patterned spine on the left.

Dr. Ochoa's Stellar World: Technology (Bilingual: English/Spanish)

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
The product packaging for the 'Interlocking Blocks Classic Set' shows a white square box with a minimalist graphic of colorful interlocking puzzle-like blocks in green, blue, yellow, orange, and pink on a very light gray background.

Interlocking Blocks

$ 56.00
$ 56.00
A wooden cable-stayed bridge model displayed on a white rectangular pedestal against a warm beige background.

DIY Cable-Stayed Bridge Kit

$ 14.00
$ 14.00
Snap Circuits Snap Bricks toy building kit box, showing a colorful product package with an illustrated circuit building set and text highlighting 25+ projects and STEM learning.

Snap Circuit Snap Brics

$ 66.00
$ 66.00
A child is sitting on a blanket with the Engineering Book For Big Babies opene showing two switches in red and yellow and four colored glowing lights.

Computer Engineering For Big Babies

$ 38.00
$ 38.00
Front cover of the children's book 'Engineering for Curious Kids' featuring a bright yellow background with colorful illustrations of engineering concepts, tools, and structures.

Engineering for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Building Machines and Amazing Structures!

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
A baby wearing a white long-sleeve outfit and a white bow headband lies on a textured cream blanket, looking at a layout page from Engineering for Babies.

Computer Engineering for Babies

$ 38.00
$ 38.00
A man is depicted surrounded by miniature architectural buildings and trees with red leaves.

Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey by Katie Yamasaki

$ 21.95
$ 21.95
Thames & Kosmos Mechanical Engineering Machines & Vehicles STEM educational kit box, showing assembled toy vehicles and structures on a blue box design with product details and age information.

Mechanical Engineering: Machines & Vehicles

$ 50.95
$ 50.95
An illustration of Iggy Peck, a child architect, drawing one of his buildings, he is surrounded by his creations and measuring devices.

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
Blue and yellow cover with cross axels, technic bricks, plates, pegs, gear, and wheels showcasing objects one can build with this kit.

Klutz LEGO Gadgets

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
Front cover features a section of a city built with Lego bricks. The city includes skyscrapers, a crane, a cruise ship, rocket, underground subway, and body of water.

The LEGO® Engineer

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
The front shows the chain reaction of a ball as it bounces back and forth down the front of the kit. On the side, there is a little window that shows the lego parts that come with the kit.

Klutz: LEGO Chain Reaction by Pat Murphy

$ 29.99
$ 29.99
The game's cover is purple with transparent numbers in the background; there is a magician holding a wand on top of a cloud with the words "Proof!" in red.

Proof!

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
The front cover of the children's book 'The Book of Math: Adventures in the World of Shapes and Numbers' by Ann Weltman, illustrated by Paul Boston. The cover features a white background filled with colorful, whimsical illustrations of mathematical and scientific concepts, including planets, wheels, dice, a globe, a telescope, a clock, and a pyramid, surrounding the bold blue title.

The Book of Math: Adventurers in the World of Shapes and Numbers

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
Math Rush Volume 1 card game box by Genius Games, featuring a colorful geometric design with blue, green, orange, and pink shapes on a white background.

Math Rush: Addition and Subtraction

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
The kit set up includes a small tabletop lamp with a light wood base and stem, a white fabric shade printed with red strawberries, and a battery-powered circuit base holding red batteries and a black switch, isolated on a white background.

DIY Lamp: Learn about Electricity & Circuits

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
The product is set up with all the different elements in the kit, such as vehicles with wheels, a helicopter, a diving bell, or a boat.

Intro to Engineering

$ 32.00
$ 32.00
Wooden lantern on an orange background with pieces around it.

DIY Levitating Lantern Kit

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
DIY Science Engineering book cover featuring colorful cartoon illustrations of children building science projects, with the title 'DIY Science Engineering' in large text on a teal background.

DIY Science Engineering: with Over 20 Experiments to Build at Home!

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
A DIY laser-cut wooden science experiment kit with a light bulb circuit. The kit features a light wood base, a vertical wooden stand, a yellow light bulb, and red and black wires with alligator clips on a white background.

Water Power Electricity Experiment

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
The large-format hardcover book has a graph background with a young girl in a similar headscarf as Rosie the Riveter, a man flying in parachute pants, and tools and building materials underneath them.

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
This is a paperback book with a yellow cover figured as yellow sunbeams; there are three black inventors profiles in white puffy clouds, George Washington Carver, Bessie Blount Griffin, and Lisa Gelobter.

Black Inventors: 15 Inventions That Changed the World by Kathy Trusty

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
Children's basketball hoop set with toy basketballs and catapult on a white background

DIY Basketball Catapult

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
STEM Baby Technology: A baby sits at a table watching a program on an iPhone, and a drawing of a rocket and a satellite is above the baby's head.

STEM Baby: Technology by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
Red, green and blue sticks joined together by 6 sided connector pieces. The sticks are arranged in the shape of a multi pointed 3D star.

Flexistix Construct and Explore

$ 40.00
$ 40.00

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Blue segmented robotic centipede toy with many legs, orange and green details, positioned beside its handheld remote on a white background.

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$ 46.99
$ 46.99
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Skull Bar Spoon

$ 15.99
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$ 14.95
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Cover of *Spooky California* by S.E. Schlosser, a book of haunted California folklore, ghost stories, and eerie tales from across the Golden State.

Spooky California: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore by S. E. Schlosser

$ 17.95
$ 17.95
Thames & Kosmos Forces, Motion & Energy STEM educational kit box, showing multiple assembled toy models and feature callouts on a white and blue background.

Forces, Motion & Energy

$ 29.95
$ 29.95
DIY Science Engineering book cover featuring colorful cartoon illustrations of children building science projects, with the title 'DIY Science Engineering' in large text on a teal background.

DIY Science Engineering: with Over 20 Experiments to Build at Home!

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Front cover of the children's book 'Engineering for Curious Kids' featuring a bright yellow background with colorful illustrations of engineering concepts, tools, and structures.

Engineering for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Building Machines and Amazing Structures!

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
Front cover of the children's book 'Technology' from Lil' Steam Minds by Ellen Ochoa, published by Lil' Libros. The cover features a dark blue space-themed background with three cartoon children holding a telescope, a cat in a space suit, and a red patterned spine on the left.

Dr. Ochoa's Stellar World: Technology (Bilingual: English/Spanish)

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Math Rush Volume 1 card game box by Genius Games, featuring a colorful geometric design with blue, green, orange, and pink shapes on a white background.

Math Rush: Addition and Subtraction

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
A baby wearing a white long-sleeve outfit and a white bow headband lies on a textured cream blanket, looking at a layout page from Engineering for Babies.

Computer Engineering for Babies

$ 38.00
$ 38.00
Jelly Blox Newbie Kit in its original yellow packaging, featuring a translucent green squishy toy, a blue and red squeeze dispenser, and a clear bead box, with instructional graphics and a child playing with the toy.

Jelly Blox Newbie Kit Tactile Blocks

$ 22.99
$ 22.99
A DIY laser-cut wooden science experiment kit with a light bulb circuit. The kit features a light wood base, a vertical wooden stand, a yellow light bulb, and red and black wires with alligator clips on a white background.

Water Power Electricity Experiment

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
The kit set up includes a small tabletop lamp with a light wood base and stem, a white fabric shade printed with red strawberries, and a battery-powered circuit base holding red batteries and a black switch, isolated on a white background.

DIY Lamp: Learn about Electricity & Circuits

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
Cover image of three young children holding different objects to do with engineering. Titles Engineering in purple against a green background.

Dr. Ochoa's Stellar World: Engineering (Bilingual: English/Spanish)

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Snap Circuits Snap Bricks toy building kit box, showing a colorful product package with an illustrated circuit building set and text highlighting 25+ projects and STEM learning.

Snap Circuit Snap Brics

$ 66.00
$ 66.00