
Are you looking for engaging ways to enhance your child’s learning experience? Forget about traditional computer games or endless hours on iPads. The best solution lies in STEM and STEAM toys – and we have the list if the best in Singapore and where to buy them! In this guide, discover our top picks for Singapore’s best STEM and STEAM toys. We’ve included popular games that are trending right now, as well as online marketplaces where you can explore a wide range of options. Transform your child’s playtime into a powerful learning opportunity with STEM and STEAM toys!
What Are STEM and STEAM Toys?
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, while STEAM includes the arts. These innovative toys provide children with a hands-on, immersive learning experience. Designed with creative problem-solving in mind, they teach kids how things work and stimulate their imagination.
Benefits of STEM and STEAM Toys
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This bright, vibrant building STEM toy is fantastic for young children. They’ll create environments like a body high-rise metropolis or a space community, with lots of freedom to exercise their imagination. The tiles are colorful, translucent pieces of squares and triangles. Your kids will develop their science, spatial, tactile, and mathematics skills. We also love that this set is safe, being made of BPA-Free plastic-free with no latex or phthalates.
Magna-Tiles, Buy here on Amazon.sg
This device is made for the budding computer programmer. It’s a perfect accompaniment to Micro:bit’s other programming packs (found on the same link we’ve given below), which teach kids how to code and invent digital ideas, games, and apps. It’s completely programmable, meaning that any of the LED lights can be used as buttons, inputs, outputs, and more. The Micro:bit website is the resource used with the toy, giving coding language lessons, tutorials, and fun project ideas.
Follow the step-by-step tutorial to build your favorite robot. This STEM toy by the popular building block brand LEGO is a favorite for kids who love to build. The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is a toy pack that is great for young learners. It comes with a 48-step guide with tutorials to help learners understand programming skills, teaching languages like JavaScript, and more. The toy is great because it’s very hands-on and physical, as well as cerebral in the programming aspect.
LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Core Pack, Buy here on Amazon.sg
KIBO is the prodigious result of 15 years of learning technologies research and testing. First, KIBO engages kids in learning the basics of programming by coming up with a sequence of commands in the form of tangible, easily manipulated wooden blocks. It's a great way to get kids started with coding and robotics from a young age. Second, kids use that knowledge and skills like writing, choreographing, engineering, designing, and more to give KIBO commands to turn it into a perfectly custom-made robot! Your kids will get to build, get creative, code, and play - this toy system has it all.
Kibo Toys (Kinderlab Robotics), Buy here on Amazon.sg
Cubetto is "your child's first coding kit"—a Montessori-approved, wooden, screenless, happy-faced toy. The design is simple and easy to navigate (even for the youngest coders), reducing the complexities of coding to Lego-like blocks representing commands and a control board to place the blocks onto. Cubetto effortlessly teaches 3-year-olds concepts such as "algorithms," "the queue," "debugging" and more through problem-solving coding adventures!
Cubetto, Buy here on Amazon.sg
The perfect birthday gift as the toy itself is educational and the price point is affordable. National Geographic has a full range of educational toys where kids can build, explore, and experiment. These have long time been a favorite of Team Little Steps!
National Geographic Sets For Kids, Buy here on Amazon.sg
Your kids can grow their very own crystal! This crystal growing kit is perfect for kids who love science and fun, magical arts and crafts. They’ll make their display that has color-changing LED lights. The experimental aspect is where the learning happens, showing kids how different compounds can create physical materials like this ‘crystal.’ The set has all the templates, cups, and lights needed to make the final product, that can act as their night light in your kids’ room when it’s complete.
Growing Crystal Color Changing Crystal Light, Buy on Amazon.sg
This is the perfect educational fun starter kit for young kids, and it’s Osmo’s most popular STEAM game set for the youngest age group of learners (great for 3-5-year-olds). Together with an iPad, this game set enables children to practice forming letters and words, as well as explore emotional intelligence, problem-solving skills, creative imagination, and more. Your kids will love the four different hands-on learning games, which include ABCs, Squiggle Magic, Costume Party, and Stories.
Osmo Little Genius Starter Kit For iPad, Buy here on Amazon.sg
Botzees is a great coding and robotics kit for young kids ages four and up. It’s a hands-on kit that combines construction, coding, and creativity, making it a great STEAM toy option for kids interested in robotics. Kids will learn basic technology concepts and programming skills. They’ll also get a chance to practice their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they work out how to construct and program their creations. This kit allows kids to code six different pre-designed ‘Botzee’ robots, or they can make their very own. The robots can learn to make sounds, dance, drum, and more using the additional free app you'll get with the toy.
Botzees, www.wearepolaris.sg/product/botzees / Botzees Robotic Dinosaur, click here
The “Dans Le Fleurs” painting kit (In The Flowers) is a non-toxic, water-based creativity kid for kids to explore the use of color, hands-on tactile control, and how to follow directions. They’ll follow the instructions to mix colors and paint the three different illustrations based on flower scenes. This is a great activity for very young children to practice their concentration while letting their artistic abilities shine. Encouraging kids to explore their creative process is a great way to activate their creative problem-solving abilities while having a lot of fun!
Sentosphere Aquarellum, Buy here on Amazon.sg
Your kids can have unbelievable opportunities for learning and growth through direct, proactive interaction with a toy that is made to teach your child how to program through a fun learning environment. The Wonder Workshop Dash Robot is "a sidekick, pet, or pal in the world created by your child using an easy-to-learn code on the iPad." This toy was the Winner of the Creative Child 2017 Kid’s Product of the Year, and for good reason; it has multiple sensors to interact with and respond to its surroundings. It makes kids amazed that they can program and code this complex robot.
Wonder Workshop Dash Robot, Buy on Amazon.sg here
Your kids can build customized electronic instruments by using the littleBits building blocks. There are 12 different activities that kids can explore in the free Inventor App guide, including building air drums, electric keytar, dance guitar, and more. The guide is simple to use with step-by-step instructions. This toy is categorized as a STEAM toy, as it has a big creative element to it. If your kids love music and computer science, this will be a hit with them. Where to find it:
littleBits Inventor Kit, Buy here on Amazon.sg
This is another great STEM toy set for younger children, with kids as young as four years old able to interact with the fun domino blocks. Kids will build a robot-themed domino set where they will catapult a wooden bool along the crazy ball track and other fun features that move the ball through the course. As soon as they knock the blocks down, they’ll want to get right back to constructing the course again, as it’s such a fun way for kids to explore building and cause and effect through movement.
Hape Robot Factory Domino Set, Buy here on Amazon.sg
This STEM toy helps your child explore spatial relationships and understand cause and effect, with their actions directly resulting in rolling marbles. They also learn about the effect of gravity in the track design to see how the marbles roll down the surfaces and advance along the track. The package has six marbles and different wooden elements to create the track. It’s a great way to explore the 3D world and show the relationship between movement, direction, and space.
Cuboro Cugolino, https://www.playhao.com/products/cuboro-duo
This certified stem toy set lets kids from as young as three years old build cars, airplanes, and even different animals. The Discover set has a ton of different creative opportunities for kids to explore their creative thinking and tactile learning. The construction of the pieces is simple and dynamic, giving kids a lot to explore in just one set. You’ll find building instructions in the box and also more options online. Your children will get to develop motor skills and creativity in this innovative toy.
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