Science Kits for Kids

Let’s talk about the best science kits — kits that make good gifts for kids.

How do I know these are the best? These science kits are award-winners from either Parents-Choice, Creative Child Magazine, Dr. Toy, Mensa, Family Fun Magazine, or Oppenheim Toy Award.

Discovoer a science kit to get your kids enthusiastic about learning science.

Best Science Kits for Kids

Sick Science! Fast Physics by Steve Spangler Science & Be Amazing Toys
Discover inertia, poential and kinetic energy, gravity, acceleration and more.

Color Mysteries Kit by Scientific Explorer
Make a liquid rainbow, a color wheel and a bracelet with color changing beads. Mix colors to make new colors. Figure out how colors make you feel, why the sky is blue and lots more. You will see the world in a whole new colorful way!

Real Meteorite Excavation Kit Discover with Dr. Cool
Hands-on paleontology kit to excavate real meteorite and tektite from outer space.

Solar Recycler by Robotikits
Recycle a can to create Street Roller or Walking Robot, create Bottle Yacht, Drummer Robot and Flying Bird using a plastic water bottle, and even turn your old scratched CD’s into a super cool CD Racer.

Sustainable Earth Lab by Thames & Kosmos,  National Geographic
Hands-on experiments in renewable energies, natural resource usage, climate change prevention, waste and water management, and energy conservation.

Crystals, Rocks & Minerals by Thames & Kosmos, National Geographic
18 hands-on projects and investigations: grow three chemically different types of crystals, build three-dimensional geometric models of common crystal shapes, mold your own crystal geode, learn how to test and identify minerals, conduct tests to determine a mineral’s chemical and physical properties, and investigate the geologic rock cycle and learn how the three main categories of rock – igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic – are formed.

DIY Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner by Artec Educational
This cyclone vacuum cleaner draws air toward the back of the bottle using its propeller. This lowers the air pressure inside the front of the plastic bottle, pulling in dust and debris.

Gyrobot by Thames & Kosmos
Explore the astonishing powers of the gyroscope by building seven motorized models, including a robot that can balance on two linear wheels and move along a tightrope.

Electronics Advanced Circuits by Thames & Kosmos
Experiment with colorful light-up circuits, install a sound module to generate the sounds of police cars, ambulances, or fire engines, learn the important role resistors and potentiometers (variable resistors) play in an electronic circuit, use a multimeter to measure invisible voltage and current flowing through your circuit, investigate transistors in switches and amplifiers, and build circuits that use sensors to detect moisture, temperature, and visible light.

Build Your Own V8 Engine by Trends UK
Easily assembled with over 100 parts, includes a working electric motor, light up spark plugs, engine sounds and automatic shut off. Discover how an internal combustion engine works. Construct a fully working model with see through workings and chrome plated plastic trim pieces.

Crystal Growing Experimental Kit by 4M
7 crystal experiments.

Butterfly Garden by Insect Lore
Observe five real caterpillars eat and grow to form their chrysalis and then emerge as Painted Lady butterflies

Groovy Lab in a Box
A monthly subscription of hands-on science kits.

AntWorks by Fascinations
Watch ants live and work without food or water with AntWorks, a space-age habitat for ants. This unique, self-contained environment consists of a nutritional gel that promotes healthy growth in ant colonies.

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