SELECT ICON BELOW TO JUMP TO Robots & Coding Educational Games Stocking Stuffers STEM Toys for Girls Younger Kids Highest Rated — ROBOTS & CODING — LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Price Tier: Under $400 Age: Jr. High and High School Summary: Brand new for 2020, this is a complete revision …

Our four kids have now spent over two years with Dash and we still haven’t seen a better, more well-rounded robot to teach coding and robotics to young kids. This little blue trike is friendly, rugged, intuitive, and expandable. He has a ton of free apps and paid accessories that …

If your child is already old enough to play with complex LEGO sets and is ready to go deeper, you can stop reading right now and buy LEGO Boost. It’s. That. Good. The set combines real programming skills with fantastic interactive robots so that kids will enjoy learning the foundations …

Do you remember your first toy? Chances are you were two or three years old. It could have been a set of blocks, a race track, or a toy drum set, but I’ll bet you can still recall it clearly. With their sturdy design, bright colors, and easy-to-read numbers, this …

Part slot machine, part bingo, part vocabulary flash cards, Zingo combines fast-paced bingo-style play with sight words and simple pictures. The result is a fun, educational game that my four-year-old asks to play several times per week. Older kids and adults will enjoy it too, but they may need to …

How many details can you recall in just 30 seconds of looking at a scene? Can your son or daughter remember more than you? If you have a tired brain like me, the answers are “a couple” and “way more than I can,” respectively. Stare! Junior is a fun way …

Which is easier, talking to your kids about the birds and the bees or about banks and borrowing? If you’re squeamish about money topics, or love talking about money but want a comprehensive guide to make sure you’re being thorough, then the book in this review might be just what …

The game Blokus has become a modern classic among board-game fans, who’ve known it well for over a decade. In this review, I’m hoping to introduce Blokus to a new audience as an educational aid, not merely a board game. Blokus hones three valuable skills for players willing to focus …

Snap Circuits 3D Illumination is another brilliant entry in the Snap Circuits series that continues the line’s fun and educational experiments with electronics. This edition offers the chance to explore various light projects, including mirrors, projectors and light sensors. As part of the “3D” branch of Snap Circuits, young engineers …

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (hereafter just Invent with Python), by Al Sweigart, now in its fourth edition, is the book that started it all for teaching kids “real” programming. The text has been updated over the years and recently changed publishers, but the core elements of iterative …