It’s time to get outdoors and experience the beauty of Northern Illinois! We’ve got a STEM kit designed to help you do that. If your children are like mine, they are always pointing to something outside and saying, “What is...

Let the good times roll! Our new STEM Kit: Marble Run is fun for many types of builders: young, old, and of course, anyone who has lost their own marbles. (Just kidding!) This kit contains: One Hape Marble Run kit. It includes 3 spirals, 7 straight...

It’s another tree-themed kit! This time, it’s a kit for the preschool-aged dendrologist. Here’s what it contains: Safari Toob Trees with matching cards Tallest Tree Stacking Blacks Tree Leaves puzzle Parts of a Tree puzzle Tap the...

We have quite a few STEM kits at the library that help you enjoy your time outside: Star Gazing, Hiking, Bugs, Bird Watching. These kits all focus on things that you can see with your naked eye. But what about all the nature that’s smaller...

Trees are amazing, and I (Laura) am obsessed with them! That’s why we’re going to have two STEM kits on trees, one a Preschool kit and one an Elementary kit. This kit is for the Elementary-aged students ages 5 & up, but look for...

Do you have a child that’s ready to move beyond counting 1-10? Then you’re ready for our Big Numbers (Counting 2) STEM kit! This kit is perfect for the child who is working on counting from 1-120. My first grader really enjoyed these...

We’ve got several kits on counting, now let’s combine and take away those numbers! If you have a child who is just beginning to add and subtract, we have a kit with hand-on, fun practice. Actually seeing quantities combine and subtract...

The Children’s Department newest STEM kit is all about estimating amounts and finding and creating patterns! This kit contains: Tangram set plus 60 pattern cards Pattern Play set with idea cards Great Estimations book Patterns at the Museum...