Holiday Gift Guide 2021

When is a gift more than just a gift? These hand-curated selections from our store fuel curiosity and open paths to exploration all year long—surprise, challenge, and delight even your hardest–to–shop-for friends and family with our unique selection. Even better, every purchase helps to support the Exploratorium's mission of transforming learning worldwide.

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This is a black box with the periodic table on the front. There are colorful periodic elements that have been characterized as people with heads and legs that are randomly placed throughout in bright yellows, purples, and blues.
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Periodic Table Book and Puzzle 300 Piece Set
$ 14.99
A black and blue planet hangs from a wooden crane; under the planet are three magnets that move around to spin the planet. Several tools, magnets, and discs are scattered underneath.
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Magnet Science Lab
$ 29.99
Two hungry brown bears are sitting at a table with a pink gingham table cloth. There are several pies and pie pieces with fractions and numbers on them. A six-pointed star spinner to play the game sits in the middle.
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Make a Pie Fraction Game
$ 23.00
The book cover is purple, orange, and white; two drawings of young athletes, one is a gymnast, and one is a football player.
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The Secret Science of Sports: The Math, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering Behind Every Gland Slam, Triple Axel, and Penalty Kick by Jennifer Swanson
$ 16.99
The book cover is blue with ten white line drawings of different animals that can take flight, such as a bat, a butterfly, a hawk, a sparrow, and a flying squirrel.
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Book of Flight: 10 Record-Breaking Animals with Wings By Gabrielle Balkan
$ 19.95
The product is blue and grey with cyan plant impressions in the middle, showing the effects created with the kit.
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Sunprint Kit
$ 18.95
The product packaging is purple with glow-in-the-dark green scratched out in an image of an owl holding a key as it flies in the night sky,
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Scratch Cards
$ 6.99
"Simply Quantum Physics" is a hardback book with a magenta cover with orange and white writing and orange quantum physics graphic symbols complete the surface in rows five by five.
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Simply Quantum Physics
$ 16.99
A yellow book cover for "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" by Mary Roach has a nature scout arrowhead-shaped emblem depicting animals in the wild.
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
$ 26.95
The math-themed rocks glass is etched with digits of Pi for your detail-oriented side, and an approximation of Pi.
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Pi Theorem Rocks Glass
$ 18.00
A rotunda-shaped box with different colorful illustrations representing all the activities at a science museum sits against a white background. Some of the items found are a microscope, an atom molecule, a telescope, and DNA strands.
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Day at the Science Museum 48 Piece Puzzle
$ 25.00
Brown and beige circular box with 36 different insect species represented.
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36 Insects 100 Piece Puzzle
$ 20.00
Blue circular box with 36 different shark species represented.
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36 Sharks 100 Piece Puzzle
$ 20.00
The product box looks like our galaxy with all the planets suspended in space, each represented by the color of the eight planets and one glittery moon.
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Galactic Slime Experience
$ 21.95
The box for this product is colorful, with a see-through window on the right side showcasing the six glitter and sparkle special effects added to the putty.
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Mixed By Me Holographic Putty Activity Kit
$ 20.00
Two children are smiling with cards in their hands; the gameboard sits in front of them, set up for play.
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Space Escape Cooperative Strategy Game
$ 22.95
The puzzle box is shaped like the United States, with each state represented with bright colors and iconic symbols such as the Golden Gate Bridge and quails for California.
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USA 200 Piece Puzzle
$ 25.00
An 2.76 x 8.46 x 8.46 inches box. An illustrated image of a grizzly bear and club are standing by a pool in front of a waterfall surrounded by trees and plants. The name of the game Parks is in white front on the right upper corner.
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Parks Board Game
$ 49.00
20" x 27 1/2 " organic white cotton with different types of mushrooms scatted throughout in vibrant reds, greens, and browns, as well as line drawings.
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Mushrooms Printed Tea Towel
$ 25.00
20" x 27 1/2 " organic white cotton with different butterflies, caterpillars, and flowers scatted throughout in vibrant blues, greens, and oranges.
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Butterfly Printed Tea Towel
$ 25.00
White organic cotton tea towel with different chemistry formulas, equipment tools, and Petri dishes scatted throughout in blue and gray ink. The dimensions are 20" x 27 1/2 ".
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Chemistry Printed Tea Towel
$ 25.00
A set of four white ceramic pudding bowls with the proofs of classic theorems of Euclid, Hippasus, Pythagoras, and Gauss. Each bowl is 8 oz., 4” diameter, 2” tall
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Proof is in the Pudding Bowls
$ 31.00
"Geek Sweets" is a hardback book with a blue gradient cover: a plate with dice and a cupcake with a cyclops alien with additional eyes at the end of five tentacles.
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Geek Sweets: An Adventurer's Guide to the World of Baking Wizardry by Jenny Burgesse
$ 24.95
This is a 15oz drinking glass. It is 6.5" in height and 2.75" in diameter. It is clear with the periodic table in white wrapped around it.
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Periodic Table Drinking Glass
$ 17.99