Holiday Gift Guide 2026

Roam through our collection of art and science themed gifts to uncover treasures, like the Mini Solar Mars Rover or Rocket Bath Toy, to delight all your favorite people. Every purchase helps to support the Exploratorium’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit mission of transforming science learning worldwide.

Enjoy the best-kept shopping secret in San Francisco—the Exploratorium Store—either online or at Pier 15, where you’ll find welcoming staff and convenient gift wrapping

Blue, red, green & silver wind-up, lenticular dog playing cards, ploysquish box black and multicolored, blue, green and red magnatiles, brown raccoon holding corn and a pink & blue otamatone melody against a green background
Holiday Budget Friendly Gifts
Red drop earrings, red and black anatomy pouch, silver metallic puzzle, black flask with Exploratorium in silver, green and yellow stag beetle with black legs
Holiday Gifts for Curious Adults
Cat game on top right in orange, green, and purple, Blue robot, brown flashlight bear, multicolored building blocks and a pixel piano in rainbow colors
Holiday Gifts for Kids
Blue panel with colored lights, white & black microscope, purple jellyfish, pink & orange book Simply Quantum Physics, and black bridge with gray attachments against a blue background
Holiday Gifts for Science Lovers
A collage of different items from the top; Cats Knocking Things off Ledges, blue flask, purple crochet jellyfish, green & gold beetle, building blocks in green, yellow, blue and pink and The Science of Baking against a red background.
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Retail package for a colorful Tiny Circuits STEM kit, showing a yellow-green circuit board, wires, and activity tools; playful, educational design for ages 8+.

Tiny Circuits

$ 29.99
$ 29.99
Cream-colored “Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges” board game box, with playful cat and falling-object illustrations; its bold red title suggests mischievous fun.

Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
The box for the Polysquish blind box geometric shapes are on the outside in an array of orange, green, purple and a mystery color.

Polysquish Polyhedron Squishy Blind Box

$ 15.95
$ 15.95
A purple crocheted octopus plush toy with black bead eyes and a silver crochet hook inserted into its back, shown on a plain white background.

DIY Jellyfish Crochet Kit

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
Thames & Kosmos Structural Engineering Bridges & Skyscrapers STEM construction kit box, showing a black and gray bridge model and a tall skyscraper structure on the front packaging.

Structural Engineering Kit - Bridges and Skyscrapers

$ 51.00
$ 51.00
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A wooden laser-cut model of a vintage biplane with visible gears, wheels, and a small yellow accent, isolated on a white background.

DIY Mini Bi-Plane

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
Thames & Kosmos V8 Race Car Essential Kit box, showing a red and silver model car with an exposed V8 engine, on a dark blue background with product details and age information.

V8 Racer Car

$ 40.95
$ 40.95
Computer Engineering for Babies

Computer Engineering for Babies

$ 38.00
$ 38.00
Gold an green stage beetle made out of shiny paper on the body and black paper for the legs.

Stag Beetle 3D Paper Green Mango Model Kit

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
Racoon 3D model made out of cardboard each pieces set together with a piece of corn in its arms.

DIY Cardboard Raccoon With Corn Kit

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
The blocks are standing in the classic periodic table form. The blocks are orange, wine red, green, and teal with element numbers, symbols, and names.

Elemental Blocks

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
Blue packaging for a Kikkerland wooden balance game shows colorful smiling shapes stacked on a curved base, with a playful, cheerful tone.

Teeter Totter Balance Game

$ 22.00
$ 22.00
Image of Stack-a-Bug blocks stacked up in a tower, with three blocks on each row. The blocks are different colors - yellow, pink, red, orange, green, or blue - and have a different drawing of a face on the short end.

Stack-A-Bug Wooden Game

$ 23.00
$ 23.00
A white-and-orange box of sensory rollers displays three colorful textured chew toys—orange, blue, and green—with labels highlighting soothing, food-grade silicone.

Sensory Rollers

$ 22.99
$ 22.99
A colorful children’s book cover for “ABC Animals!” by Rufus Butler Seder, with bright block letters and a moving-image panel showing a galloping animal; playful, lively tone.

ABC Animals!

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
A children’s fossil-dig kit includes a red “Fossils” box, a large beige digging block, wooden excavation tools, and small fossil specimens, suggesting hands-on discovery.

Mini Fossil Dig Kit

$ 5.50
$ 5.50
Rapidly spinning silver and gold mounted disc in gimbal rings sit on a black stand.

Exploratorium Gyroscope

$ 10.99
$ 10.99
Blue “plui rain cloud” toy packaging shows a white cloud releasing blue-and-white water droplets, with diagrams explaining how it fills and sprays water; playful, educational tone.

Original Sensory Ball

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
A blue Sunprint Kit package shows white botanical silhouettes and text about making photographic prints with sunlight and water, with a clean, educational tone.

Sunprint Kit

$ 10.50
$ 10.50
Spirograph design set packaging, featuring colorful geometric patterns, drawing tools, and a hand using a pen; playful creative kit for ages 8+.

Spirograph Tin

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
A colorful Spirograph Jr. art kit box displays interlocking gears, drawing tools, and sample designs, promoting creative pattern-making for young artists.

Spirograph Jr.

$ 31.00
$ 31.00
Colorful Creatibles deluxe air-dry clay kit box showing six clay tubs with animal faces and playful clay figures; bright, cheerful design for ages 6+.

Creatibles Air Dry Clay

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
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Shades of green, blue, teal, and natural in triangles and parallelograms create a rocket.

Magnetic Pals Spaceship

$ 28.00
$ 28.00
Boxed children’s card game titled “Go Shark Go!” features a large smiling gray shark swimming through bright coral and seaweed; playful underwater artwork and a 3+ age mark.

Go Shark Go! Card Game

$ 10.99
$ 10.99