The 10 Best Science Kits For Kids

With the Crayola Color Chemistry Set (appx. $20), children will use the included art supplies to apply what they’ve learned in school to create glow worms, slime, an erupting volcano, a tornado in a bottle, and more. The accompanying booklet explains the science behind it all.

With the Thames & Kosmos Solar Workshop (around $34), budding scientists will find out how cells transform light into electrical energy, and they’ll assemble a moving praying mantis model. Included is everything they’ll need to complete 10 fun projects in all.

With the Playz Growing Crystal Creations (appx. $24), your child can grow flowers, eggs, and starfish in every color of the rainbow, all while learning about the formation of crystalline geodes. The 36-page lab guide is chockful of pictures and interesting facts.

With the Cubelets Discovery Set (around $140), you’ll build modular robots by snapping together magnetic blocks that are each made with a particular function, like rotating, flashing, and driving. Each creation behaves differently depending on which pieces you decide to combine.

The Learning Resources Wow & Wonder (appx. $27) will give preschoolers and kindergartners a chance to work with things that fascinate them, like bubbles, magnets, and glasses with colored lenses. Ten double-sided activity cards feature simple, hands-on experiments for hours of fun.

With the Dancing Bear Fossil Collection (around $33), your child will enjoy examining and sorting the remnants of 100 once-living things, including dinosaurs, sharks, ammonites, and more. It's also equipped with a storage box, a magnifying glass, an identification chart, and 21 cards.

The Playz Ridiculous Inventions (around $40) offers fun ways to teach STEM-oriented concepts using homemade boomerangs, magnetic force fields, spectrum rainbows, telegraphic messages, and robotic turtles. It includes tools and ingredients for more than 26 experiments.

With the Thames & Kosmos Nanotechnology (around $88), teenagers can discover the fascinating world of microscopic particles, and they’ll conduct experiments using both scaled-up models and actual nanomaterials. The manual incorporates a handy glossary of important terms.

Since most young ones are inherently attracted to anything wiggly and gooey, they’ll be entertained for hours by Make Your Own Slime (around $16). It comes with the ingredients to mix up various neon, glittery, clear, crunchy, or glow-in-the-dark creations.

The Balance Living Microscope (around $39) is an easy-to-use starter set that enables you to view specimens at up to a 1200x magnification. Included are 3 objectives in different powers, as well as 7 blank slides and 5 prepared ones featuring pine leaf, onion bulb, corn root, and more.