Cool STEM Toys For 4 Year Olds

Clever little engineers will love this colourful engineering set! Use the chunky pieces to build motorcycles that move as the gears turn and the wheels spin. The gears snap together easily with multiple ways to build, so four-year-olds can apply their imagination and creativity to build something to their liking. A fun, hands-on way to support STEM and critical-thinking skills. Vroom vroom!

This highly entertaining set makes a great gift for future NASA scientists! Just load a lightweight rocket and jump onto the launch pad to send your rocket shooting towards the sky. The higher you jump and the harder you land on the launch pad, the further the rocket will soar. Coolest of all, the three rockets light up, so you can even play in the dark. Run, jump, fly!

Young naturalists, this one’s for you! This 11-centimetre-long torch comes with three slide discs containing 24 wildlife images to project on the wall. Light up your bedroom with a tiger, an elephant, an alligator and more! Remove the slides to use the gadget as a normal torch, ideal for late-night reading, sleepovers and sneaking to the fridge for a midnight snack. Roar-some!

This awesome set combines creativity and construction as you build your very own shark friend! Snap together the sturdy pieces to assemble your shark, then use the chunky screwdriver to add eight colourful bolts including his eyes. With moving tail-fin and chomping jaw, perfect for imaginative play with built-in wheels. The bolts are fully removeable, so the set can be used again and again for endless building fun!

Four-year-olds will have heaps of fun building their very own robot friend with this clever construction set! First, use the toy screwdriver to fit the 15 colourful, removable plastic bolts onto the sturdy 8-inch robot body. Then, decorate your robotic creation with cool robot stickers. Once you’re finished building, you can move the robot’s arms, head and upper body. Ideal for encouraging basic STEM skills and imaginative play!

A fantastic creative project – colour countries, animals and landmarks to make a lovely tablecloth. This great pack comes with a 130cm x 85cm soft cotton tablecloth and 10 bright wash out pens so you can doodle, wash and re-doodle over and over. Explore and decorate the countries of the world, their famous landmarks and native animals too! From The Sydney Opera House to the creatures of the Savannah – and even a double decker bus for the UK! Doodle around the world again and again… Geography homework has never been so appealing.

Four-year-olds will have endless fun exploring the mini-world all around them with this fully functional microscope! The sturdy design is chunky and specially designed for little ones. The extra-large dual rubberised eyepieces mean there’s no need to close one eye when peering through. The microscope also features low 8x magnification and an oversized knob for simple focusing. The perfect first microscope!

Learn how gears make the world go round. This easy assembly 61 piece set is a fun and engaging way to explore the many amazing things gears can do. Build four simple machines that move. With large durable pieces, perfect for small hands, it’s the perfect introduction to simple engineering concepts. With a colour, step-by-step manual which explains how to build the models, these gears are endlessly fascinating at this age – time to get moving!

This brilliant set includes everything you need to grow your own fun rainbow vegetables, including seeds, compost discs and starter pots. Watch them sprout into seedlings, then transfer to a larger pot or garden to finish them off. In time, enjoy your homegrown purple carrots, stripy tomatoes, yellow courgettes, red sprouts and colourful Swiss chard. Jazz up your dinner and encourage children to eat their veg – who could resist tasting a rainbow?!

Looking for a STEM toy that guarantees smiles and brings beautiful colours into your home? Explore the world of colour mixing with this exciting science kit. Magically transfer colours from one test tube to another, then create a cool vibrant volcano! Dye white flowers crazy colours, then make a rainbow “rain storm” in a beaker. Using common household items, experiment with mixing, lenses, refraction and more. The set includes a full-colour guide, ten fun activities and lots of kid-safe equipment too. Science made awesome!