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Giant Sequoia Crystal Growing Kit

Giant Sequoia Crystal Growing Kit

$ 7.95
$ 7.95
Cherry tree packaging with an image of the fully grown cherry tree crystals beside it.

Cherry Tree Crystal Growing Kit

$ 7.95
$ 7.95
Hey Clay box showing an image of 6 ocean creatures you can make with the kit.

Hey Clay Ocean Creatures

$ 24.00
$ 24.00
SolarBots: 8-in-1 Solar Robot Kit

SolarBots: 8-in-1 Solar Robot Kit

$ 29.99
$ 29.99
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
Three test tubes with white magic snow and green and pink glow powder sit within a dark blue box with a window cut out. Luminescent powders appear on the box.

Luminescent Lab Glow Science Chemistry

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
The Blink Solder kit has a black rectangular board with three blue resistors, one red LED, one green LED, one blue LED, three black and gray push buttons, and a gold coin cell holder.

Learn to Solder: Blink

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
A kit that changes through the hues of colors soldering kit put together; there is a black hexagon hue PCB attached with white RGB LED light, three light blue dials, and a silver coin holder.

Learn to Solder Kit: Hue

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
A black metal bug with yellow bumblebee strips at the bottom, two red LED lights for eyes, and six silver metal legs, a gold coin cell battery holder on its back.

Learn to Solder Kit: Jitterbug

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
The box comes in a white slipcover with drawing in black of different circuits made with the copper tape, the circuit stickers, and the coin cell batteries similar to a maze. There are also fun yellow drawings, such as a cat, a bee, and a robot.

Chibi Lights LED Circuit Stickers STEM Starter Kit

$ 35.00
$ 35.00
The Contraptions 50 box is green, blue and gray with the contraptions planks set up as a platform for the ball to roll, bounce, and drop into a basket.

Contraption 50 Plank Set

$ 28.00
$ 28.00
It comes in an aluminum tin with a black and pink sleeve. There are two samples of the pink neon light shaped in a heart and the word neon on the sleeve.

DIY Neon Light Kit

$ 16.00
$ 16.00
A magenta purple knitted octopus with cream white underneath, two eyes, and a mouth.

DIY Olivia Octopus Knitting Kit

$ 31.00
$ 31.00
Turquoise container filled with different shaped bubble dough.

Deluxe Bubble Dough Lab

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
A lime green colored box with purple and green gummy spiders and worms all over the box.

Gross Gummy Candy Lab: Worms and Spiders

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
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Hexagonal form with blue light LEDs moving back into infinity.

Infinity Mirror Optical Illusion of Light Depth

$ 27.99
$ 27.99
A pink and blue box with samples of mini animals that you can make. Included are a panda, a fox, a bunny, an octopus, a penguin, a sloth, and a bird,

Klutz Sew Mini Animals: More Than 12 Animal Plushies to Stitch and Stuff

$ 22.99
$ 22.99
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
An s-shaped precise plastic flip-over liquid timer. The liquid is clear and green with teal accents and a blue Exploratorium logo.

Exploratorium Liquid S-Shaped Timer

$ 10.95
$ 10.95
A blue and red box with a window cut out in the front showcasing the rainbow-colored triangles with one square.

Magformers Rainbow Colors - 14 Piece Set

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
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
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A silver hand-cranked music box plays a tune punched out of the sheet music strips.

Make Your Own Music Box

$ 26.95
$ 26.95
A triangular glass prism is refracting light waves to make a rainbow.

Exploratorium Glass Prism

$ 19.00
$ 19.00
A glass hourglass with a magnetic wood base; as the magnetic black sand moves through the hourglass, it creates little porcupine-like spikes as it becomes magnetized.

Magnetic Sand Timer

$ 23.00
$ 23.00