The Thingery

Snapino combines snap circuits with Arduino technology, allowing users to create 20 hands-on projects that introduce electronics, logic, and coding concepts.

Practice skills or play a quick match with this soccer set. Includes pop-up goals for easy setup and storage, plus a soccer ball. Great for backyard play, parks, or drills, and suitable for players of all ages.

Move life-size pawns around the gigantic 64" x 64" gameboard. Play the same unpredictable game of strategy and luck, only BIGGER! You'll race, slide, and score to be the first player to get all 3 pawns to home base to win!

Learn American Sign Language with fun and interactive activities. The Let’s Learn Sign Language and Webber Sign Language Cards feature fingerspelling and hand positions for essential words, helping you build your ASL vocabulary. For hands-on practice, Uncle Goose American Sign Language Blocks showcase ASL symbols and letters, perfect for mastering fingerspelling.

Learning a new language takes practice, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. With Spanish Reading Rods, strengthen word recognition and language skills through hands-on-play. Spanish Flash Cards and Bingo offer a playful way to build language confidence.

A hand-made steel-titanium alloy drum with lotus flower tongue. Popular for meditating, mind healing, and yoga meditation.

The jumbo bowling set comes in a convenient storage bag that can be used to contain the pieces after the game ends. Play the game outdoors on the patio or sidewalk or indoors on hardwood floors. Children can learn the basics of adding and subtracting as they knock the pins down and score.

Large checker game suitable for indoor or outdoor play, for 2 to 4 players.

The giant chess pieces make this a fun way to play the classic game of strategy.

Be the first player or team to get four of the colored coins in a row: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Classic jenga game that can stack over 4 feet high in play. Blocks measure 6" x 2" x 1.2".

Kubb is played on a 16' x 26' pitch with baseline blocks and a king in the center. Teams of 1–6 take turns tossing dowels to knock over the opponent’s kubb blocks. The goal is to topple all opposing blocks and then the king to win.

This portable table tennis set lets you turn any table into a ping pong game. The retractable net can be set up in minutes on a dining room or kitchen table.

A perfect telescope for beginning amateur astronomers, the StarBlast 4.5″ Astro Altazimuth reflector tabletop telescope is uncomplicated, with simple design, and high level of performance. Everyone in the family will enjoy using it.

The Today I Feel… kit is a great way to teach kids about emotions and feelings. The kit includes a Big Feelings Pineapple that allows kids to make a variety of faces on both sides, the Feelings & Dealings family card game, a large flipbook that helps kids identify feelings and make positive choices, and the book “I Want To Be Mad For a While!” by Barney Saltzberg.

Tonie figurines work with a Toniebox audio player to bring stories and songs to life. Each colorful character holds its own content—just place a Tonie on top of the Toniebox to start listening, and swap it out to change stories. Our collection includes classic picture books, chapter books, and educational content about dinosaurs and sea creatures. Check out our full collection in the library catalog!

The Toniebox is a screen-free audio player that brings stories, songs, and educational content to life for kids ages 3 and up. Its soft, padded design is perfect for little hands—kids can tap the sides to adjust volume or skip forward and backward. Simply place any Tonie character on top to start playing! Check out our full collection in the library catalog!

Turing Tumble is a revolutionary new game where players build mechanical computers powered by marbles to solve logic puzzles. Turing Tumble offers students the opportunity to peek under the hood of computers and discover how they work.