Single Spark Packs

Blendie What’s a Blendie? Explore symmetry, balance and optical color mixing with a rebuildable, durable spinning top! Add color to parts using a set ... $8.95 Pre-K-5th Grade 30-45 min Optical Illusions Color Peek inside → Wind-Up Vehicle What’s a Wind-up Vehicle? Learners design and build a series of unique vehicles that zoom using a speedy spring-driven motor! This project kit... $8.95 2nd-5th Grade 30-45 min Energy Wheels & Axles +1 more Peek inside → Flying Machine What’s a Flying Machine? Learners build three versions of reusable, high-flying copters that zoom high and far! This project kit is for learne... $8.95 K-5th Grade 20-45 min Energy Forces +2 more Peek inside → Drawbot What’s a Drawbot?  Drawbots are unique, rebuildable, whimsical machines that move, scribble, and draw. Learners build, test, deconstruct, and ... $8.95 3rd-5th Grade 30-45 min Circuits Mechanical Vibration +1 more Peek inside → Crankie Contraption What’s a Crankie Contraption? Tell a scrolling illustrated story using a cardboard screen machine! Learners will integrate engineering, art, a... $8.95 1st-5th Grade 45-90 min Storytelling Peek inside → Art Machine PK / TK learners benefit from the parallel play of a caregiver or educator with their own pack!   $8.95 Pre-K-3rd Grade 20-45 min Compound Machines Levers +2 more Peek inside → Monster Mouth What’s a Monster Mouth?  Monster Mouths are playful, air-powered creatures that come alive through pneumatics - pistons, cylinders, and air pr... $8.95 Pre-K-3rd Grade 20-45 min Pneumatics Storytelling Peek inside → Screen Machines Plan and bring illustrated stories to life by building a cardboard scrolling machine. Learners create a screen-free story strip, build the fra... $8.95 K-5th Grade 45-90 min Storytelling Peek inside → Eyelusions Create a motorized thaumatrope, design image pairs, and discover how optical illusions can fool the eye. Includes materials for a quick screen... $8.95 K-5th Grade 30-45 min Optical Illusions Color +1 more Peek inside → Strawbot What’s a Strawbot? Explore balanced and unbalanced forces in a motorized wiggling machine! Built, test, and iterate on your solution until it ... $8.95 2nd-5th Grade 30-45 min Circuits Mechanical Vibration +1 more Peek inside → Straw Structure What’s a Straw Structure? Learners explore the geometry of line segments, lines, shapes, and forms to engineer and rebuild structures that rea... $8.95 Pre-K-5th Grade 30-90 min Geometry Peek inside → Scene Machines Scene machines are automata - hand-powered mechanisms that use rotational motion to animate a scene. They’re made from systems of interconnect... $8.95 3rd-5th Grade 45-90 min Cams & Followers Storytelling +1 more Peek inside → Mazes Build ramps and pathways to make a ball roll down to its goal. Then connect your maze to a partner’s and extend the play!  Explore gravity and... $8.95 Pre-K-5th Grade 30-45 min Gravity Iteration Peek inside → Linkages What are Linkages? Learners invent moving cardboard contraptions using systems of sturdy levers and fulcra. They create arms that extend, claw... $8.95 Pre-K-5th Grade 30-45 min Levers Pivots +1 more Peek inside → Hypnotizers Draw colorful spirals with a spring-driven machine! Includes everything you need to quickly create hypnotic drawings - wind-up mechanism, foam... $8.95 2nd-5th Grade 30-45 min Energy Optical Illusions +1 more Peek inside → Electric Vehicle What’s an Electric Vehicle? Learners design, build, and test a battery-powered vehicle that moves using a motor and a simple circuit. They’ll ... $8.95 3rd-5th Grade 30-90 min Circuits Wheels & Axles +1 more Peek inside →