14 STEM & MESH Toys to Keep Young Minds Sharp This Summer

Use the 24 vibrant, flexible, magnetic pieces to make toucans, hummingbirds, and more. Engage in STEM learning and make the wings flap with the included flapper mechanism.

Players aim to get rid of their tiles while playing this dice rolling, pattern recognition, and dexterity game.

Kids can strengthen their empathy and cooperation skills with this game developed in collaboration with Spain’s ANAR Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting at-risk children from bullying, abuse, and other risky situations.

This moss garden is a perfect addition to a desk or personal space. The set grows four kinds of moss and includes natural river gravel and accent stones.

With this kid-friendly telescope, aspiring astronomers can learn to scan the sky, observe objects, spot constellations, and more with the included activity journal.

Kids can learn STEM concepts while building three unique tracks to race their Hot Wheels cars on. The set includes one inline loop with a kicker and two inline loops, and can be added to other track sets.

Preschoolers can learn about expressing their feelings with this set of soft hand puppets, each representing a different emotion.

Squish and stretch in style. This iridescent, color-shifting thinking putty is made to resemble the colors found in Egyptian scarab beetles.

This hyper-realistic robot toy lizard scurries across the floor and scales up walls, just like a real gecko. Kids can use the remote control to move the gecko and to activate its LED light eyes.

This STEAM kit combines education and entertainment with more than 25 fun-filled projects in which kids use marshmallows in every activity.

Hunt for treasure! Kids ages 8 & up can search for metal objects like gold, silver, iron, copper, and more with this custom-tooled metal detector! Detects metal buried up to 6 inches deep in sand, dirt, or grass. Ease of use: Ergonomically designed for users of all sizes, this metal detector comes with two handles…

This kit comes with materials to run experiments, teaching kids how magnetism works.

This LEGO Jurassic World T.rex building set features a complex T.rex fossil skeleton more than 3 feet long, with 4,145 pieces. Perfect for collectors, builders, and Jurassic World fans, this set also comes with LEGO Minifigures Dr. Ellie Sattler and Dr. Alan Grant, an information plaque, display stand, hidden film Easter eggs, and coffee table…

This soft shark figure, part of the Ocean Range collection and made in partnership with Wow in the World, features glow-in-the-dark eyes, teeth, and belly.