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Engineering Day Collection

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
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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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A clear glass of water filled with pale mathematical formulas, geometric diagrams, and science symbols, giving a calm, academic impression.

Science Formulas Pint Glass

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
Astronaut Neapolitan ice cream sandwich package with a space-suited astronaut and freeze-dried chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry dessert.

Astronaut Neopolitan Ice Cream Sandwich

$ 5.50
$ 5.50
Astronaut Cookies & Cream ice cream sandwich package with a space-suited astronaut and a chocolate-and-vanilla ice cream bar, whimsical.

Astronaut Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Sandwich

$ 5.50
$ 5.50
Brainwright QBOID 1-2-3 pocket puzzle package, featuring a colorful yellow, red, blue, and black spherical puzzle; ages 8+ label.

Qboid Pocket Puzzle

$ 9.00
$ 9.00
Collage showing a colorful Morf advanced fidget toy in its box and hands stretching its iridescent, flexible lattice design.

Morf Fidget Worm Unicorn Small

$ 8.99
$ 8.99
Packaged 'Rainbow Catcher' Hanging Sun Crystal by Hebbie Jeebits, showing the blue faceted crystal inside its colorful retail box.

Rainbow Sun Catcher

$ 11.99
$ 11.99
A white rectangular folding water-painting set shown on a plain white background, including the closed lid with a black lotus flower graphic and quote, the open painting board in its stand, and a small paintbrush.

Buddha Board Mini - White

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Black-framed digital drawing tablet displaying a delicate ink-style bamboo and flower sketch, with a white stylus beside it; calm minimalist scene.

Buddha Board - Enso

$ 29.99
$ 29.99
A plush white mouse toy with pink inner ears, pink eyes, and a long pink tail, shown on a plain white background.

White Lab Mouse

$ 0.00
$ 0.00
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Wordspiel

$ 0.00
$ 0.00
A clear glass terrarium holds a cluster of Venus flytraps in dark soil, their open green-and-red traps creating a curious, otherworldly scene.

Tiny Terrarium

$ 5.99
$ 5.99
A blue handheld voice changer with a white perforated speaker, shown on a plain white background.

World's Tiniest Voice Changer

$ 12.00
$ 12.00
Children's book cover titled 'Dear Math We're Not Friends' by Lina Chopra Haldar, illustrated by Teresa Martinez. The cover features a light blue background with doodled school items, a torn white notepad with the title in large hand-drawn letters, and an illustration of a young girl measuring herself with a tape measure next to a dalmatian.

Dear Math, We're Not Friends

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
Iridescent square metal buckle with rounded edges, a raised central loop, and horizontal bar; shifting purple, blue, green, and gold finish.

Spin Cube Fidget Spinner

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
Colorful multi-sided twisty puzzle cube with black edges and bright red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and purple tiles; playful challenge.

Inverse Novalinx - Dodecahedron Puzzle Cube

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
Triangular twist puzzle arranged as a pyramid, with bright yellow, blue, green, and red panels in a playful geometric design.

Inverse Triminex Pyramid Puzzle

$ 16.99
$ 16.99