30 Must-Have STEM Toys That Make Learning Fun

This kit contains nine VR experiences, 23 experiment pieces, and a 40-page educational book. With the VR headset and included app, kids can witness a real rocket launch, explore the International Space Station, return to Earth in the Orion Capsule, and more.

This set features Connetix’s Smart-Spin technology, enabling magnets to rotate 360 degrees within the tile so that it clicks into place. Advanced builders can make intricate designs with the smaller tiles and create cool builds with six refined colors.

This microscope features a 250x magnification, upper and lower lights, and a detachable eyepiece. Kids can gather their own specimens or use the six prepared plant slides to get an up-close look at pine pollen, dandelion seed, and more.

These five large magnetic dinos are only available in this set! The five included dinos are a T. rex (blue), a Brachiosaurus (green), a Stegosaurus (purple), a Triceratops (red), and a Pteranodon (yellow).

Kids can build four wooden vehicles — steam train, backhoe, race car, and pickup truck — using more than 150 precision-cut KEVA planks. No glue or connectors needed. This STEM-friendly set includes base plates and a guidebook to spark critical thinking and creativity while kids construct, deconstruct, and rebuild for hours of hands-on fun.

Kids can solve marble puzzles that challenge their imagination. Gravity Maze includes nine towers, three marbles, a game grid, and a target piece for endless design possibilities. Gravity Maze sparks the imagination while honing critical thinking skills.

Kids can learn STEM concepts while building three unique tracks to race their Hot Wheels cars on. The set includes one inline loop with a kicker and two inline loops, and can be added to other track sets.

Craft DIY solutions to everyday problems, make art, customize a space, and more with this 3D printing pen. Draw freehand or use one of the hundreds of free online projects to make 3D creations.

Hunt for treasure! Kids ages 8 & up can search for metal objects like gold, silver, iron, copper, and more with this custom-tooled metal detector! Detects metal buried up to 6 inches deep in sand, dirt, or grass. Ease of use: Ergonomically designed for users of all sizes, this metal detector comes with two handles…

Draw characters and levels, snap a picture of your creation, and start playing your very own video game. Includes five washable markers and a 108-page game design book.

This kid-safe power tool makes cutting cardboard easy. Kids can use it to transform the cardboard into forts, DIY costumes, educational dioramas, and other creative projects.

This STEM-based set features a kid-safe turbine that sends foam balls flying through a network of modular tubes and connectors that kids can arrange however they'd like for fun and educational experimentation.

A build-it-yourself coin bank: Kids ages 8+ can construct their own mechanical coin bank that's shaped like a dragon guarding a treasure chest! Authentic science lessons: Learn about electrical conductivity, gears, and other mechanisms as you build and use your bank. When you place a metal coin in the dragon’s mouth, it completes the electric…

With this kit, kids can go on more than 20 spy missions. The STEM kit teaches kids about the science and engineering behind spy tools and tricks, including how to build motion detectors, use voice changers, discover trip wires, and more.

This picture book rocks — literally! Pebble the Rock Reporter is after the scoop on the geology, and the other rocks and minerals are ready for their close-up. Filled with fun facts and puns galore, kids can learn the origins of their favorite rocks and even how to spot them in their everyday lives.

This pack includes nine flexible magnetic pieces featuring Goodman’s unique art style. Kids of all ages can snap the colorful shapes together to craft their own 3D creations.

The DIY greenhouse’s transparent box ensures the right temperature for seedlings while allowing light for seeds to grow. When plants are big enough, kids can remove them and plant them outside.

B.Toys' Light-Up Marble Drop lets kids DIY their own marble drop with fun and colorful pieces. With the same pieces, kids can use the stencils to create art on the same board! The board lights up in exciting colors, letting all of the marble drop mazes and artistic creations shine bright.

With the Dinosaur Skeletons or Ocean Fossils Erupt and Dig Volcano kits, kids create a chemical eruption and then excavate the volcano to uncover detailed dinosaur skeletons or discover fossils from the prehistoric ocean floors.

This giant egg houses 15 activities, including a dino dig, paintable dinosaur race cars, and clay dinosaur models. It also has a learning guide with facts about dinosaurs.

With this mess-free craft kit, kids can create foil pictures featuring planets, astronauts, shooting stars, and more. They will peel the backing off the canvas, put the foil sheet onto the page, and peel again to reveal the colorful, foil effect.

Ignite creativity and STEM exploration with the Space2Inspire STEM Kit. This collaboration with Dr. Sian Proctor blends art, science, and aerospace fun, featuring color-changing fins, a customizable parachute, and digital activities.

This 67-piece solar-powered cash register includes play money, a pretend credit card, has calculator functions, and plays authentic sounds.

This activity kit comes with more than 100 pieces and includes 76 glow-in-the-dark stars, a foam rocket launcher, constellation cards, and more.

This kit lets kids learn about renewable energy and electrochemistry by powering their own wooden car with a liquid battery. Upon finishing the experiment, kids get their own Certified Genius badge.

Teens can learn about the science of crystals and grow their own with this science kit. U.S. Toy Co. is the exclusive specialty distributor for Horizon Group USA Products in the U.S.

Using STEM concepts, kids can create more than 10 motor-powered contraptions, including a tornado maker, a bubble machine, and more.

Kids can raise sea-monkeys with a stylized kit that adults will recognize. The set includes instant live eggs, food, a feeding spoon, and more to hatch and care for the sea-monkeys.

This set comes with more than 200 colorful nuts, bolts, and shapely bits to build at least four out-of-the-box models with endless possibilities for personal creative design hacks. This educational toy encourages the development of fine motor skills, spatial reasoning, problem-solving, and imaginative play.

Kids can learn about physics as they build and race wooden balls down a 1.5-foot-tall chipboard gravity drop tower full of LEGO contraptions and obstacles.