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Elenco®’s Snap Circuits® makes learning electronics easy and fun! Just follow the colorful pictures in our manual and build over 50 exciting projects. All parts are mounted on plastic modules and snap together with ease.

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 anywhere with these kid-friendly pop-up soccer goals requiring no assembly. This set includes 2 goals measuring 48 x 30 x 30 inches, a size 4 soccer ball, a ball pump, and a flat carrying case.

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.

Relax and unwind with the calming tones of this steel tongue drum, perfect for meditation and yoga. Kit includes a 12-inch drum, 2 mallets, 4 picks, and a music book.

Bring bowling fun to your backyard, patio, or living room with this lightweight hollow plastic set. This kit includes 10 pins measuring 17 inches, 2 hollow plastic balls measuring 7 inches, and a storage bag.

Enjoy a classic game of checkers on a grand scale, perfect for indoor or outdoor play. This set includes 24 foam checkers measuring 7 inches across, a 5 x 5-foot fabric mat, and a carrying bag.

Challenge friends and family to a super-sized game of strategy with chess pieces measuring up to 12 inches tall. This set includes 32 oversized pieces, a 5 x 5-foot foldable fabric mat, and a carrying bag.

Line up four in a row with this giant Connect 4 set featuring a hollow plastic frame standing 4 feet tall when assembled. This 20-pound set includes oversized colored coins and a carrying bag measuring 45 x 14 x 18 inches.

Test your steady hand with this super-sized Jenga set that stacks over 4 feet high during play. This set includes 54 wooden blocks measuring 6 x 2 x 1.25 inches each.

Turn any table into a ping pong arena with this portable table tennis set that clamps onto tables up to 2 inches thick. It includes a retractable net, 2 paddles, and balls.

Start exploring the night sky with this easy-to-use tabletop telescope, perfect for beginning astronomers of all ages. This kit includes a StarBlast 4.5-inch Astro Altazimuth reflector telescope with 17mm lens, additional 6mm lens, moon filter, star chart, and a sky atlas.

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.