The Best Educational Gifts For Kids

This fun JIMU ChampBot Kit lets you Compete like a pro by taking on the challenge of building each one of the three different robots - ChampBot, BasketBot or ScoreBot.

Test your Blockly skills by shooting baskets into the buildable, basketball hoop or knocking down one of the included target cards.

Entertains kids for hours while they hone their STEM skills. This kit features 522 snap-together interlocking parts and connectors, 3 smooth motion robotic servo motors for real hands-on STEM learning.

This Klikbot comes with a free app, Stikbot Studio, that allows users to create and edit stop-motion movies with their characters. What a great way to get boys' creativity flowing!

Klikbot creatures are a faithful follower of the evil modulus. They're the muscle to execute his plans to take over the universe. After discovering a precious metal, they are confronted by the evil modulus and his faithful followers. Thrust into a battle they never signed up, these adventurers must choose to become heroes and stop modulus’ plan to build an army capable of taking over the universe!

Klikbots is a line of collectible action figures that kids can use to create their very own stop-motion videos. With their interchangeable pieces, articulating limbs, and action accessories, Klikbots are ready to travel the universe and go on any adventure you can imagine!

When you're ready to create, animate and share with your Strikbots, the Strikbot Studio Pro is here to help!

Stikbot Studio Pro one sets include 1 tripod , 1 stikbot, 1 stikbot pet , 2in1 stage green and blue screen.

One of the coolest STEM gifts on the market right now! The grandmaster of dough kits! An immersive world of conductive dough teaching kids how to build electrical circuits through tactile play. Experience a range of exciting projects designed to let kids get creative with technology. The Kit comes with step-by-step online tutorials for 20+ projects. Let’s dough this!

Small books. BIG fun! Whether you're inside or outside, at home, the park or even at school, this Beat the Clock Stopwatch Set is jam-packed with fun and constructive activities to get kids interested in exploring time-- and beating it!

From keeping balloons in the air, to running around the block, to setting the table, these fun time-based activities will delight and entertain children for hours. Great for solo play or with friends, test your skills and reflexes against time with this innovative activity set.

Each set includes: Stopwatch (battery included), Challenge book, Handy storage box, 2 balloons and 1 HB pencil for recording. Our packaging for this creative activity set has been specially designed with storage compartments to keep stationery and artwork safe, making it perfect for portable, no-mess and no-fuss play.

The original Tinkering Labs kit: build & rebuild endless robotic creations with a single kit. This unique STEM toy is designed for kids ages 8 to 12 years old and teens. This intro to engineering kit is the perfect gift for aspiring engineers & tinkerers! Kid-tested, parent-approved.

Diy kit with 50+ real parts: build Robots with 10 challenge cards, Wood, Electric motors, & hardware.

Zip, zing, and slingshot into fun with the Techno Gears Marble Mania Slingshot marble run! Spark your young engineer’s interest in STEM education with this thrilling marble maze building kit.

This 80+ piece construction set is designed to launch kids into the exciting world of science, technology, engineering, and math. Closely follow the colorfully detailed instruction manual to build the marble run and watch your child enjoy the extended play value as they experience the world of cause and effect.

Cultivate a creative hands-on learning experience and make STEM education fun by introducing your kid to the remarkable world of engineering and mechanics! Is your budding builder looking for an exciting collectible construction toy? Then Techno Gears Marble Mania Slingshot is the perfect gift for you and your kid!

This marble run construction kit is an excellent teaching tool for both boys and girls ages 6 years and up.

This Bio-Organic STEAM kit will inspire the artist and scientist alike! Make your own rock candy, sugar cubes and the clean up with your own homemade soaps.

The True Genius line from Project Genius brings together brainteaser puzzles and links each design with an ancient civilization including China, Aztec, Rome, Greece and Egypt. The puzzles are finished in an antique style to look as though they might actually be artifacts from long ago.

This set is a clever puzzle combination in which you must take everything apart and then figure out how to piece them all back together again. Great for older kids looking for a challenge!

Kids can ring up the fun with our real-working cash register! The built-in calculator and digital display let kids add, subtract, multiply and divide as they ring up pretend purchases. The cash drawer even pops open so children can figure out the correct change! The cash register has a large, solar-powered digital display; includes a “credit card” and play money. 

This SmartMax Build & Learn Set includes 100 building pieces and a container that doubles as a sturdy storage unit. This fun set enables young children to explore magnetism safely, with strong, oversized pieces that are specifically designed for handling by young kids. Safe and durable, SmartMax uses the highest quality materials and their magnets are incredibly strong. SmartMax is an outstanding STEM toy. Not only do kids expereince basic math and engineering, but activities such as building ramps for moving vehicles add more advanced STEM skills. 

With this fun set, kids can make their own delicious and fun unicorn, cloud, and rainbow-shaped gummies! Includes all ingredients you'll need to make these delicious gummy treats!

Aside from an experiment to guide kids in making gummy candies, additional experiments explore different chemistry concepts.

Transport yourself into another world with these classic metal and wooden puzzles from Project Genius, inspired by timeless literacy masterpieces.

The Treasure Island Set includes the following puzzles: Man in a barrel, one-legged soldier, the stockade, the black spot, and Billy's keys.

It's a perfect gift for puzzle enthusiasts of all ages!

STEM is fun! As the lead chemist in your very own out-of-this-world laboratory, it's your job to identify ufos — unidentified funky oozes! Set up and use your lab station — separately or as an extension of the ooze labs chemistry station (a parents’ choice Silver honor winner!) — to mix up batches of unidentified “alien” slime and conduct tests on them to analyze and investigate their special properties.

The kit comes with all the tools needed to set forth on your Alien slime research mission. Use the syringe to conduct viscosity tests, roll the slime with a roller, and dissect it with tweezers and a plastic scalpel. Cut a brain shape out of the slime, stamp it with an alien head, and add eyes to it!

Explore your slimes’ make-up and properties — like their different colors, glittery components, and glowing and color-changing effects — and then use your findings to correctly identify the different slimes.

Real science and playful science fiction come together in this wacky, activity-filled kit!

This extra-large floor puzzle from Melissa and Doug is such a fun way to learn about the 50 states! This puzzle helps teach children the location of the states and also each state's capital. This puzzle is made using recycled papers and soy-based ink.

It's definitely one of the best educational gifts for kids, especially kids ages 5-8.

Meet Botley The Coding Robot Activity Set, offering screen-free coding! Botley introduces coding in an easy, friendly way. Kids as young as 5 can learn to code with Botley ! But he's also advanced enough to grow with them. Botley is a gift that keeps on giving!

GeoMag's Magicube is a new construction system that has reinvented the block. Featuring magnetic pull to hold blocks together, kids just can't get enough! Fun and easy to create a variety of shapes, animals, and objects. Imaginations will go wild!

Learn about the science of soaps and body scrubs - and have fun while doing it! Make your own face masks, fizzing bath balm, salt and sugar rubs, and more using the included lavender oil, peppermint oil, glycerin soap, sea salt, and other ingredients. This is a great kit for kids who are reluctant to do science and need some motivation, but anyone can enjoy making their own spa products. You provide some household items.

Little ones can use their fine motor skills to build this train, taking it apart, then put it back together again over and over again! This set includes a kid-safe power drill to construct then conduct the train, complete with lights and sounds!

It includes train engine car, hauling car, caboose, conductor figurine, 25 bolts, and power toy drill.

SNAP CIRCUITS POWER! Lab Kit allows your kid to become an expert in all things powering!

Kids will learn and engage in educational play that teaches them the science behind electrical currents. With real lab parts and materials, your child gets to perform amazing experiments and experience.

This kit contains a total of 19 experiments includeing creating a closed circuit to cause sparkly the robot to light up, exploring what materials conduct electricity, learning how to communicate using Morse code, and much more!

From Project Genius, Chroma Cube is a deduction puzzle game that challenges solvers to use their deductive reasoning skills by showing the position of some color cubes, and giving clues that can be used to deduce where the other colors go.

The 12 colorful blocks and unique laser-cut tray are all made of solid wood, making this a high quality puzzle.

There are a total of 25 different puzzles to solve.

Kids love to learn about animals and this Play, Draw, Create Reusable Drawing and Magnet Kit from Melissa and Doug is a great way to encourage your child to learn more about the ocean.

The reusable drawing and magnet activity kit includes a take-along case with rope handles to conveniently store and carry 42 magnets, 5 dry-erase markers with an eraser, a built-in magnetic dry erase board, and a 13-page spiral-bound dry-erase activity book. Flip it open for a ready-made play surface, and snap it closed to take creativity on the go!

Promotes fine motor skills, creative expression, and narrative thinking.

Studying the unseen world with a microscope is like traveling to another universe. And the Microscopic Discovery Kit is the vehicle to get you there. This #1 bestselling microscope & microscopic slide set, and complete kit is a great way to invest in your child's learning this hoilday season.

A study of reactions! This Bio-Organic STEAM kit will inspire the artist and scientist alike! Make your own dinosaur egg, experiment with disappearing eggs, and experiment with getting an egg in and out of a bottle. More than 10 science experiments and art activities included.

National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey in Times Square is the perfect experience educational gift for kids. National Geographic Encounter is an entertaining and immersive adventure across the ocean from the South Pacific to the coast of California. Instead of taking animals out of their homes, Encounter’s groundbreaking technology transports you to theirs, using stunning photo-realistic animation that gives you access to rarely witnessed moments in nature.

If you can't make it to NYC, don't worry, there are still a ton of great educational gifts for kids available in the National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey online gift store, like this cool National Geographic Shark Tooth Dig Kit.

Your child will enjoy digging out 3 different shark tooth fossils, including a Sand Tiger, Otodus and Crow Shark!

This kit has 172 building pieces which you'll use to assemble a real robot that looks like a cute hedgehog. This unique pet has a built-in sound sensor and is programmed to react to your claps.

Clap once, and your hedgehog curls up into a ball and rolls over one time. Clap multiple times, and it will roll again and again, tumbling once for each clap! Watch how different patterns of claps instruct your hedgehog to do different tricks--make it bristle its spines, scurry around, spin, and more!

It's perfect for the science-loving child who's been begging for a pet!

Use special sculpting dough to make fun creations with light-up LED accents! Three playful projects provide easy-to-follow instructions to learn about simple, series, and parallel circuits. With this Science Buddies Electric Play Dough Kit, it's like fun dough creations come to life!

The GeoSafari Day 'N' Night Ant Factory from Educational Insights isn't your typical ant farm. Instead of sand, the habitat uses a unique nutrient gel based on a NASA experiment testing ants' ability to tunnel in microgravity.

With this kit, you can watch ants up close as they chew their way through the see-through gel, creating fascinating tunnel designs. All you need to do is add ants! Either catch your own or order some using the included coupon to get a vial of Pogonomyrmex occidentallis, also known as harvester ants. Once set up, it's a self-contained ant farm that provides hours of educational fun.

Design and build your own race tracks and experiment with gravity, magnetism, and kinetics to propel your ball to the finish. Gravitrax is perfect for kids who love discovery through trial and error. Unwrap this action-packed box of educational fun and become a physics master!

Inspiring the next generation of creative leaders, Green Kid Crafts offers three subscription options to fit your needs! Each box comes with up to 6 science and art kits, high quality materials, activity magazine, and achievement badges. Kids will love to learn while have so much fun!

Stretch your mind with this unique logic puzzle featuring Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty! Each of the 60 beginner-to-expert level challenges will put your spatial reasoning skills to the test as you attempt to connect the dots for all 6 Thinking Putty colors on the Puzzle Grid. The paths can’t intersect, so you will need to stretch and pull each color along different pathways, over bridges, and around blockers to succeed.

This game has plenty of hands-on, sensory fun for everyone!

Launch into a study of physics and projectiles with the Catapults & Crossbows Kit! Build and experiment with 10 updated models of the classic medieval weapons. Learning doesn't get much more fun!