Kids Library of Things

Learn by doing; creating, experimenting, failing, thinking, and redesigning. Makedo is designed to make cardboard construction easy for everyone. Make anything imaginable of any size from a flower to a fort, a mask to a maze. Makedo creations set the stage for immersive, creative and open-ended play. Cardboard not included.

With this kit, children design their own learning fun! The sturdy board, big bolts, colorful activity cards, and realistic tools encourage young learners to develop a variety of important skills, from color recognition and counting to fine-motors skills and following directions.

It’s a maze game. It’s a marble game. Actually, it’s a gravity-powered logic maze game that builds reasoning skills and visual perception. The best part is it’s fun to play and learn! Use the challenge cards to strategically place towers and create a path for your marble to reach the target. There are 60 challenges to test your skills.

Develop a concrete understanding of gravity, energy, friction and more as you experiment with forces & learn how they affect motion. Follow simple instructions to complete hands-on experiments–from creating pendulums and experimenting with friction to measuring pull forces and building inclined planes.

Look, listen, and learn as wildlife warrior, Bindi Irwin, shares kid-friendly facts about nature! Take a closer look with the only talking microscope for preschoolers packed with photo-quality images and audio about the amazing, up-close world of animals, plants, everyday items and more. Each slide contains three different images and there are four language settings.

Read the funny story of two inquisitive young engineers and build your own simple models of the boats they encounter. The boats actually float, making for fun and easy experiments around the sink or bathtub. This 52-piece science kit and storybook provides an engaging way to teach simple engineering concepts, developing fine motor skills, STEM skills, visual-spatial skills, and reasoning and concept development skills.

Discover how bridges are made! Through full-color photographs, easy-to-read text, and hands-on projects, young engineers and architects are introduced to the world of bridges, including the types of bridges, how they’re built, and key terms. This fast-paced nonfiction book will engage budding engineers while also covering U.S. Next Generation Science standards and National Science Education Standards.

All aboard the learning express! Build number, shape and color recognition skills with this fun interactive train set featuring rolling wheels and an easy-to-grab size that’s perfect for little hands. Kids can sort the blocks by shape and color, count the total number found in the train, and build fine motor skills while loading the blocks back into the right train cars. They can also use the blocks as construction toys, stacking and building with them during free-play imaginative adventures.

Introduce early geometry shapes and their relationship to each other with the chance to improve visual and motor coordination while gaining experience in problem solving and recognizing and matching colors and shapes. Each card indicates the needed pieces, then has a shape. Use the indicated pieces to build the shape directly on top of the drawn shape on the card. There are 6 cards for each of the 5 skill levels.

Build the fort of your dreams—with our strong, snap-together builders! Just attach the poles to the kid-friendly connectors…then cover with a sheet or blanket for hours of fun. A step-by-step guide shows how to build everything from a kid’s castle to a super-cool igloo, but use your imagination to bring your own creations to life!

Introduce early geometry shapes and their relationship to each other with the chance to improve visual and motor coordination while gaining experience in problem solving and recognizing and matching colors and shapes. Each card indicates the needed pieces, then has a shape. Use the indicated pieces to build the shape directly on top of the drawn shape on the card. There are 6 cards for each of the 5 skill levels.

Young architects learn about spatial reasoning and building in three dimensions as they construct one realistic house after another! Just follow the prompts on our activity cards—slotting together plastic walls, floors and roof pieces to create 10 different houses even professionals would be proud of. With every house completed, kids develop essential STEM skills and spatial awareness.

Make a coin go head over heels in two directions at once, spin at over 1,000 revolutions a minute, walk a tightrope and somersault on a bridge! Balance four coins on the rim of a teacup, too! Learn to build levitating pyramids, rocket launchers, airplanes, rotating earrings, nodding birds and floating balloons. The activity booklet contains 44 projects.

It’s the multi-directional marble maze with 64 puzzling challenges! Choose a card to see your puzzle and place the multi-directional tiles on the board. Release the steel marbles to see if you land your targets. If you’re off base, move the tiles until your marble circuits deliver a picture-perfect landing! It’s logic, strategy and a brain game all in one!

Physics fundamentals become playtime fun! Can you propel the balls into goal cups with the help of an adjustable pendulum? Engineering, problem solving, and critical thinking skills will be needed as you explore early physics concepts like force and momentum in search of the ideal solution. The pendulum is completely kid-powered, so it helps build hand-eye coordination and muscle control. The booklet is filled with easy-to-build challenges, which ramp up in difficulty to encourage leveled play and continued development.

Perplexus Original is a bendy, trendy, can’t-put-it-down challenge! Roll the ball to one of the starting points. If you can’t find them… put Perplexus down and slowly back away! Flip, twist and spin Perplexus to move the ball along the numbered path. When you fall off the track, cuz it’s gonna happen, just start over! If you make it to the end, pat yourself on the back, then try racing your friends on the clock! Complete all four Perplexus puzzles to become a Master!

Learn over 50 vocabulary words in one game! Promotes vocabulary development, improves recognition and matching, and increases reading speed. Each plastic chip has three vocabulary words or pictures; just match the words with their corresponding pictures!

Children can practice writing with these colorful, oversized uppercase and lowercase letters. Trace on the dotted line with a dry-erase marker, then wipe clean to practice again!

Blocks help develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination for all ages, while also providing an opportunity to teach colors, shapes and numbers. They are also a chance to use imagination and practice sharing and cooperation.

Create a winding gear train, a cranking tower with a fan or any wacky interlocking contraption you can imagine! Build tall, build wide … Or both! The possibilities are endless! Supports STEM by encouraging creativity, design, critical thinking, problem solving and step-by-step construction.

Play with pegs and a pegboard! Create patterns with the colors, stack them into towers, and help develop fine motor skills while you build. When you’re done, knock them over and try again!

Bristle 3D Blocks are perfect for building fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, while stimulating curious minds. They are crafted with soft, rubbery ‘bristles’, allowing children to easily connect pieces together at any angle. This brightly colored 126-piece set provides endless building possibilities to fuel kids’ imaginations and creative juices. It also includes 16 rolling wheels that add motion to objects–build an airplane, car, dump trucks, robot and other creations!

This set pairs 100 cubes with 30 learning challenges that make math lessons fun. Using the colorful cubes as a handy visual aid, little learners can learn addition and subtraction, practice sequencing through color and shape recognition, and experience perspective through 3-D building challenges. They also double as fun building toys! MathLink Cubes link together on all sides of each cube, are easy for little hands to snap together and twist apart, and are ideal for counting to 100 by ones and tens, grouping, and one-to-one correspondence.

Count your way to the finish line! These colorful cars are ready to rev their engines for early math learning fun. Attach the finish line to the track numbered 1-10 for a high-octane counting race up to 10, or push it into overdrive by racing to 20! Start your engines to learn counting 1-20, early addition, number sequencing, patterning, and more!

This game teaches basic counting and beginning math skills and encourages retention through stimulating multi-level math games. Monkey Balance is easy to learn so everyone can start playing instantly.

Xyloba is a creative marble run for building and composing at the same time. It develops motor function and spatial imagination, and facilitates a creative approach to music. You can build marble runs that are different every time and four interchangeable sound modules produce simple melodies and rhythms. The fun really begins when, in addition to building, kids start composing.

Learning to code has never been simpler with Ranger & Zip to help teach along the way! Follow their storybook or make up your own story for multiple ways to code and have fun. You can also feed, pet, and take care of Ranger & Zip while they’re in Play Mode!

Bllöx helps build and improve dexterity, fine and gross motor development, color recognition, pattern recognition and more…but most importantly, it is heaps of FUN for the whole family! Each Player gets 5 blocks; then just flip over a card and race to build what you see!

These fun-to-use plates let kids create instant artwork from A to Z! Each plate has an upper- and lowercase letter, plus 2 images with the same initial sound. Also includes animal picture plates! Kids just place paper over the plates and rub with crayons to reinforce letter recognition, initial sounds and more! 

LUX is a revolution in smart construction fun! The Primer takes advantage of Lux multi-wheels and rubber bands to create structures utilizing a pulley and gear system like the Radar Machine and GearBox. Demonstrate complex geometric principles with the Rhombicosidodecahedron!

Build the trickiest maze you can imagine as fast as you can, then swap mazes with your opponent and start to race! By tilting their board, each player steers their ball through the maze as quick as they can to complete it first.

This game introduces simple math in a fun way! Connect your number tiles in a grid using the blue mathematical operation tiles. The first player to connect all their tiles wins!

The Spiral Art Design Center cleverly combines the principles of art and mathematics so that you can create awesome geometric designs.

Techno Gears Marble Mania is a great way to develop your child’s building skills. The Zoomerang set includes over 80 pieces to build and create your own marble and gear run. Once completed, the corkscrew marble lifter can be cranked to elevate the marble to the top of the build where the track and the fun begin.

Learn the basic concepts of building with a toy set that lets you learn while playing! Create fun and friendly creatures with chunky multicolored pieces that are perfect for young minds and little hands. Let your little ones explore their young imaginations by discovering how to build colorful creations on their own. Children will piece together the chunky and colorful KID K’NEX rods, connectors, wheels, colorful eyes, curly tails, floppy ears, big feet, bendable joints, and spinning propellers for hours. Allow builders to craft basic-looking figures on their own, and guide them in constructing complex structures that will ignite their curiosity!

Help children master telling time with skill-building activities that allow them work at their own pace. Children will work to tell time by solving time riddles, use a double clock mat to tell time, and solve time word problems using fun question cards.

Help children master measurement concepts with skill-building activities that allow them to work at their own pace. Children will work to measure distance through a fun hands-on dice-rolling activity and solve measurement word problems using colorful match-up cards!

Mechanical physics is fun with simple machines to help make complex tasks easier to do! Build 26 models to find out about the six classic simple machines – wheels & axles, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, and wedges – plus gears. Combine the pieces to create your own combinations!

The 32-page manual also shows examples of simple machines in action in everyday life. The seesaw at the playground, the wheelbarrow in your backyard, the flagpole in front of your school – all of these are examples of simple machines in the real world! So start building, investigating, and experimenting to discover how physics is all around us!

Kids build measurement and data skills in a flash-with a hands-on discovery can they explore on their own! Part of our Math in a Flash! series, 25 question cards that focus on comparing two objects and recognizing attributes, plus fun manipulatives that get children excited about learning!

Best of all, the activities are designed for independent use: Children just select a question card, then use the manipulatives to solve each self-checking problem!