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The STEAM Starter kit is a personal sized building set with 230 pieces to build several small towers, moving mechanical cranes and arms. The building set comes with 5 different precut straw sizes and 4 color-coded connectors organized in the box.
Take your Strawbees building adventures to the next level with the Strawbees Imagination Kit. A bigger, bolder toolbox designed for makers ready to dream up even wilder creations. Building on the foundation of the STEAM Starter Kit, this set includes more straws, more connectors, and exciting new add-ons that open the door to limitless design possibilities! With fun accessories, students bring their characters, creatures, and inventions to life in imaginative new ways. Whether it's crafting animals that walk, designing playful puppets, or engineering towering structures, the Imagination Kit fuels creative storytelling alongside hands-on STEAM exploration. The building experience encourages learners to think like inventors; experimenting, testing, and reimagining their ideas. As kids construct and animate their creations, they gain a deeper understanding of engineering principles like balance, stability, and movement, while also practicing problem-solving, collaboration, and artistic expression.
Features
Key Features:
Open-Ended Challenges:
The kit comes with challenge cards that present problems to solve, but without instructions. This encourages kids to invent their own solutions and make prototypes
Creative Thinking Skills:
The process of sketching ideas, building prototypes, testing, and reflecting helps children develop their creative thinking and problem-solving abilities
Multiple Ways to Create:
Kids can build their ideas by sketching, writing, or using the construction pieces directly
Reusable Parts:
The straws and connectors are custom-made and durable, allowing for endless building possibilities and experimentation
Storytelling:
The challenges and unique accessories like shoes and eyes help encourage storytelling and narrative play
STEAM Learning:
The kit is used as a STEAM solution, with lessons available on the Strawbees Learning platform