Makerspace

My Favorite Makerspace Supplies

Looking to start a Makerspace in your school, classroom, or community? Here are all my favorite Makerspace supplies, tools, and robots for elementary kids!

New to Makerspace? Start with my how-to guide

hand2mind STEM Bins kit: labeled bins with building materials
Brooke’s pick

The STEM Bins® Kit from hand2mind

Every bin, every building material, and every task card in one box, so you can open a Makerspace the day it arrives.

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Start With These 5

Building and Engineering

Robots and Coding

Screen-Free Robots

App and Tablet Robots

Not sure which robot fits your kids? Read Robotics Made Easy

Circuits, Animation, and Tech

Craft Supplies

Printables That Go With Them

STEM Bins® MEGA BUNDLE

Task cards for every builder on this page. My #1 seller.

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Robot Stations for Beginners BUNDLE

Bee-Bot, Dash, and Sphero challenges for the robots above.

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Maker Stations BUNDLE

Station signs that turn the craft supplies into a rotation.

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Makerspace MEGA BUNDLE

Starter Kit, stations, choice boards, and posters in one.

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Read My Top Makerspace Posts

Start here

So You Want to Start an Elementary Makerspace?

Where to begin: space, stuff, schedule, structure, and self-direction.

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Makerspace Without the Space

Maker stations on a cart or a shelf when you have no room to spare.

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Elementary Robotics for Kids

Which robot for which grade, and how I run robot stations.

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Top 10 Makerspace Read Alouds

Picture books that get kids inventing before they build.

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Free Maker Stations sample: a Maker Station sign next to a bin of building materials

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Maker Stations Free Sample

Five ready-to-print station signs, each with a challenge, material options, and QR-code resources. Print them, set out a few bins of materials you already have, and let kids choose. They’re in my FREE Resource Library.

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