Engineering Maker
for kids
Explore 10 trusted engineering maker resources selected for curious kids, with clear ages, access details, and parent context.
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Morris Museum Spark!Lab
A Smithsonian invention workspace where children ages 5 to 12 imagine, design, test, and improve ideas.
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KID Museum Sunday Workshops
Project-based maker workshops where families explore tools and materials with KID Museum educators through activities such as wooden board games, Makey Makey controllers, and laser-etched designs.
StarCode
A free robotics and coding environment that lets children build robot programs with blocks and move toward Python, C++, and Java on web, desktop, Android, and Chromebook.
EDC IDEAS Maker Program
Education Development Center’s IDEAS project is an inventing, designing, and engineering maker program for students and informal STEM learning.
Wonderscope Programming Classes
Children’s Museum of Kansas City classes including Science Time, music and movement, maker workshops, and developmental learning sessions included with admission or membership.
Kids Invent Stuff
Kids Invent Stuff is an engineering and invention video channel where children’s ideas become real builds and design challenges.
KID Museum After-School Programs
KID Museum’s fall after-school sessions give children K–8th grade hands-on maker learning through innovative art, coding, circuitry, textiles, construction, and creative problem-solving.
KID Museum Girl Scout Workshops
KID Museum’s hands-on Girl Scout badge workshops combine maker-space exploration with private sessions in board-game design, programming robots, craft, and woodworking.
Code-it-Hacks Kids
Code-it-Hacks Kids offers a multi-year STEM journey through early play-based robotics, coding, circuits, engineering, AI, game development, 3D animation, and maker projects.
KID Museum
KID Museum is a maker-learning organization where children and families explore coding, robotics, engineering, design, and creative problem-solving in studio and community programs.
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