KiwiCo offers a wide variety of STEAM activity kits that kids will love. Their Motion & Mechanics kits are especially cool, teaching the science and engineering behind movement and machines. Here are 8 top picks:
1. Walking Monster
Children can build their own walking robot monster with this exciting kit. It comes with pre-cut wood pieces, plastic feet, and all the hardware needed. As they assemble the parts, kids learn how gears and crankshafts work together to produce walking movement. Decorative stickers let them customize their monster’s unique personality.
2. Build & Play Chess Set
Kids construct a complete wooden chess set with this STEAM project. It includes all the materials to make a custom game board and 32 chess pieces. Sanding, staining, and assembling the parts teaches hands-on building skills. Kids can even personalize pieces with paint. The finished set provides endless opportunities for fun strategy games.
3. Robot Coder Starter Kit
Young roboticists get an introduction to coding and electronics with this kit. It includes parts to build a wheeled robot that can move, turn, play sounds and light up. Kids code behaviors using intuitive block-based coding on a tablet or computer. As they program their robot, they grasp coding basics through hands-on learning.
4. Domino Machine
Children explore chain reactions and kinetic energy while constructing an awesome domino machine. The kit provides gears, dominoes, cranks, and ramps to build multiple domino fall paths. As they set up creative runs, kids learn how energy transfers from one component to the next.
5. Speedy Race Cars
Budding engineers design speedy motorized cars with this kit. Using wood, plastic wheels and a power module, they can build two unique vehicles. Kids customize their cars with stickers while learning about circuits and motors. After assembling their race cars, they can compete against friends or race against the clock!
6. Jumping Robot
Kids can construct a robot that jumps on its own with this kit! It guides them through building a motorized bot using cardboard, plastic feet, wooden dowels and other hardware. As they follow step-by-step instructions, children grasp concepts like energy transfer, mechanics and circuitry.
7. Crawling Robot
Similar to the jumping robot, this kit allows kids to build and customize a crawler bot. It includes everything needed to make a motorized robot that moves along the ground on plastic treads. As they assemble their creation, kids learn about gear systems, electricity and more through hands-on play.
8. Civil Engineer Starter Kit
This kit provides young engineers with tools to construct model roadways, bridges, tunnels and more. Kids can build multiple projects to learn about structural engineering and design. It comes with straws, connectors, plastic sheets, foldable road signs and detailed guides to spark creative building.
Motion & Mechanics kits from KiwiCo deliver STEAM learning through fun, interactive projects kids create themselves. From coding robots to constructing machines, these hands-on activities teach science and engineering principles while sparking creativity. Kids gain confidence as they build and play with moving models that really work!
