Youth Services Library of Things

Discover the wonder of Yellowstone National Park and learn about grizzly bears through play! Play catching games with two bear paw gloves with self-stick hook-and-loop tabs. Plush fish, moths, and berries – some of grizzlies’ favorite snacks for exciting pretend play. Includes fun facts and how to identify grizzlies, game ideas, and a map for pretend play highlighting Yellowstone features.

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Take an imagination filled hike through Grand Canyon National Park with pretend play hiking essentials. Rotate four photo disks in the play binoculars to see canyon scenes and native animals and plants five beautiful color photos per disk bring the park to life right before kids’ eyes! Slide ID cards into the wooden play “tracker” to identify in English and Spanish the native plants and animals you see!

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Keep little ones busy on road trips!

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Keep little ones busy on road trips!

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Discover the sights and sounds of the Rocky Mountain National Park! Slide a photo card into the wooden play camera, press the buttons on the back to hear three nature and animal sounds per card! The removable red lens magnifier lets kids search for plants and animals hidden in scenes on the backs of the photo cards.

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Bring Storytime home with you! Storytime helps children recognize how to care for a book, develop vocabulary and phonological awareness, and strengthen communication skills. The On the Farm Storytime Kit includes books and rhymes all about farm animals.

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Bring Storytime home with you! Storytime helps children recognize how to care for a book, develop vocabulary and phonological awareness, and strengthen communication skills. The On the Go Storytime Kit includes books and manipulatives all about transportation vehicles.

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Bring Storytime home with you! Storytime helps children recognize how to care for a book, develop vocabulary and phonological awareness, and strengthen communication skills. The Under the Sea Storytime Kit includes books and rhymes all about ocean animals.

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Bring Storytime home with you! Storytime helps children recognize how to care for a book, develop vocabulary and phonological awareness, and strengthen communication skills. The Shapes Storytime Kit includes books and manipulatives to help your child begin learning all about shapes.

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Learn the basics of babysitting. Kit includes activities to do with children and first aid resources.

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Kit Includes:

• 1 Book: Just Breathe, Bear by Christianne Jones
• Gel Bead Emotion Friends (4)
• Mindful Breathing Board
• Watch it Roll Calming Tube
• Find Your Feelings Emotional Slider
• Calm Down Cubs (12)

Identifying emotions can be tough for little kids. This kit is filled with books and manipulatives to adopt strategies to help regulate their emotions.

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Kit Includes:

• Book: Going to the Dentist by Nicole A. Mansfield
• Toothbrush
• Dental floss
• Dental floss holder
• Toothpaste tube
• Dental rinse bottle
• Cup
• Hinged teeth with soft tongue
• Top and bottom braces
• Top and bottom retainer
• Retainer case (for both braces & retainer)
• ID Tag & Lanyard
• 2 gauze pads
• Mirror tool
• Instrument tray
• Polisher Toolhead
• Drill Toolhead
• Vibrating base for toolheads
• Floss Tool
• 2 tooth polish cups
• Activity card

Is your child nervous about going to their first dentist? Are you having trouble getting your child to brush their teeth? This kit includes a bunch of kid-friendly dentist tools that they can explore with! They’ll be able to floss, brush and examine on big plastic pretend teeth!

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Kit Includes:
**STICKERS NOT INCLUDED**

• 1 Fraction Board
• Activity Guide
• 1 “1” Tile
• 2 “1/2” Tiles
• 3 “1/3” Tiles
• 4 “1/4” Tiles
• 5 “1/5” Tiles
• 6 “1/6” Tiles
• 8 “1/8” Tiles
• 10 “1/10” Tiles
• 12 “1/12” Tiles

Children learn basic fraction skills as they play and build with 51 color coded, plastic fraction tiles. Develops number sense, equivalencies, and parts to whole.

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Is your family expecting a new baby? Our Big Brother and Big Sister kits are designed to ease your child’s anxiety concerning the arrival of a new brother or sister!

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Is your family expecting a new baby? Our Big Brother and Big Sister kits are designed to ease your child’s anxiety concerning the arrival of a new brother or sister!

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Is your family expecting a new baby? Our Welcome Baby kit has everything your older child needs to welcome their new family member! Kit includes a baby doll & accessories for them to practice, nursery rhymes to read together and books on different family members!

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Is your child nervous about going to school? This kit has everything you need to get them ready! Read books together that focus on school fun, separation anxiety and making every day their best day yet! Get them ready and excited by practicing with different flash cards included.

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The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more. Designed for little listeners, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations.

Tonies: Playtime Puppy, Paw Patrol: Marshall, Paw Patrol: Chase, DC Batman, DC Wonder Woman, Marvel’s Spidey & Amazing Friends

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The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more. Designed for little listeners, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations.

Tonies: The Gruffalo, Nap Tim Nature Sounds, Frozen, Pinnochio, Spot & Friends

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The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more. Designed for little listeners, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations.

Non-Fiction Educational Tonies: Penguins, Whale, Horses, Dinosaur, Octopus, Astronaut & Sea Turtle

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The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more. Designed for little listeners, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations.

PARENTING COLLECTION TONIEBOX: ‘SING, PLAY, SLEEP!’ The perfect combination of playtime favorite songs, relaxing, soothing themes and stories

Tonies: Calm Creative, 7 Habits of Happy Kids, Favorite Children’s Songs , Sleepy Friends, Mindfulness & Playtime Puppy

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The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more. Designed for little listeners, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations.

Tonies: The Lion King, Rapunzel & Other Fairytales, Cars, Minions/ Despicable Me & Toy Story

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Kit Includes:

• • • 1 white bucket
    • Scavenger hunt & identification guides (laminated packet)
    • 1 dry erase marker
    • 1 Blue net
    • Magnifying jar
    • Green tweezers
    • Scooping tongs
    • 1 orange net
    • Magnifying glass
    • Collection container

Explore your local sea shores with a net, bucket, and guide to help you find local wildlife.

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Kit Includes:

• Binocular with Lanyard
• Field Guide to the Birds of North America
• Binoculars Bag
• Lens Cloth
• National Geographic Kids: My Little First Nature Guide BIRDS

This kit invites budding naturalists to head outside for a walk — in the woods, a park, or right in their backyard — to spot feathered friends. This kit will lead kids through the basics of birding, from identifying common birds to learning about habitat and migration. Discover the beauty of your backyard!

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Recommended ages: 4-8 years

Kit Includes:

• Two Books: Ultimate Bug-Opedia/The Big Book of Bugs
• Bug House
• Bug Catcher and Viewer
• Magnifying Glass
• Two Plastic Specimen Cases
• 12 plastic cubes. (6 cubes in each case)
• Specimen Guide

This exploration kit supports STEM learning and encourages scientific exploration and a love of nature, even in your own backyard!

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Kit Includes:

• Instruction Manual
  START Token (+) and FINISH Token (-), connected by wire. Together, these are the power supply

• • 1 Game Grid
  • 60 Challenge Cards with Solutions
  • 2 Legend Cards
  • 3 AAA Batteries
  • 3 LED Beacons: Red, Yellow, Green
  • 1 Switch Token
  • 2 Straight Tokens
  • 5 Corner Tokens
  • 2 T Tokens
  • 1 Bridge Token
  • 1 Double-Corner Token
  • 1 Blocker Token

Circuit Maze is an electricity puzzle game. To play, you build a circuit pathway across the Game Grid from Start to Finish. When you complete your circuit and light up the designated Beacons, YOU WIN!

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Manual

Kit Includes:

• • • Two books: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie/Can You Make A Scary Face?
    • Code A Pillar
      • Head Piece
      • 8 Body Pieces
    • Plastic Case
      • Containing Instructions & separate paper
      • Red & Green plastic Targets
    • Expansion Cards on Zip Tie (3)

Code-a-pillar inspires little learners to be big thinkers by encouraging preschoolers to arrange (and rearrange) the easy-to-connect segments in endless combinations, sending Code-a-pillar on his path. This learning toy encourages experimentation while developing important skills like problem solving, planning & sequencing and critical thinking.

Recommended ages: 8+ years
Kit Includes:

• 1 Challenge Booklet
• Instruction Manual
• 1 Control Panel
• 6 Gray Beginner Movement Cards
• 9 Yellow Advanced Movement Cards
• 3 Double-Sided X Placeholder Cards
• 1 Robot
• 1 Robot Stand
• Activity card

Designed to build the mental skills needed to fully grasp the concept of coding. All games are screen free for a unique, unplugged play experience.

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Manual

Kit Includes:

• • • • Dash Robot with black case
      • Tablet in blue case
      • Orange USB Cord
      • Black charger adapter with cord
      • 2 blue attachments (inside black case)

Kids can program Dash to move, sing, dance, flash its lights, respond to voices, make sounds, and even tell a story. Children learn coding concepts like sequencing, events, loops, algorithms, operations, and variables through self-directed play and guided challenges.

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Kit Includes:

• • • • 1 Book: Super Dinosaur Explorer
      • Two dinosaurs
      • Interactive dinosaur guide
      • 1 drill
      • Plastic case containing:
        • Drill bit
        • 3 gray bits
        • 2 orange screws
        • 2 green screws

Learn all about dinosaurs through play!

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Kit Includes:

• • • • Two Books:Eyewitness: Volcano & Earthquake/What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
      • Survive the Quake Engineering Kit
        • • • • • • • 30 building blocks (different sizes)
                    • Earthquake simulator
                    • Activity guide

This earthquake simulator creates quakes in 5 levels of intensity and comes with 30 plastic building bricks in a variety of shapes and sizes. Create and test different structures to see if they topple or stand strong!

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Kit Includes:

• Two Books: Crazy Contraptions/Just Like Ruby Gold
• Keva Contraption Guide Book
• 2 Red Zip bags with Keva Blocks
• 2 Balls: 1 Red, 1 Blue

Toys That Teach: Building brain power plank by plank. Playing with wooden building planks gives builders first-hand experience with balance, leverage, geometry and principles of physics.

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Kit Includes:

• • • • Marble Run Instructions & Learning Guide
      • Cardboard contents picture guide
      • Plastic case containing:
        • • • • • • • • • 15 marbles
                        • 1 blue light clip
      • Black drawstring bag containing marble track pieces

Learn architecture and physics by creating incredible marble runs that will have glowing marbles racing toward the finish line!

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Kit Includes:

• • • • Two Books:
        • • • • • • • Skeletal Systems
                    • Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Body Cross Sections
      • Fascinating Facts Human Body Game Contents:
        • • • • • • • • Body model with 6 removable pieces
                      • 32 quiz cards
                      • Instructional guide

Learn all about the human body.

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Kit Includes:

• Three books:
• Easiest piano course
• Disney piano arrangements for kids
• Beginner piano lessons for kids
• Keyboard with battery adapter
• General guide
• Laminated song sheet

Learn the basics of beginner piano.

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Kit Includes:

• • • Two books:
      • • Weaving with Children
        • Abuela’s Weave
    • Lap Loom Kit containing:
      • • Instruction booklet
        • Laminated Instruction sheet
        • 4 wood tools
        • Bag of yarn: 8 spools, 1 needle, & booklet
        • 1 wood lap loom

A simple and practical way to learn to weave.

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Kit Includes:

• • • Instructions
    • Product safety information for parents
    • Purple box contents:
      • • • • • • • • • • Plastic ziplock bag with paper templates
                        • 2 grey mounting boards
                        • 1 grey mechanical arm
                        • 9V battery with cable
                        • 10 bits
          • Bag with ties

Creative kids have everything they need to turn their ideas into inventions! littleBits are modular electronic components that connect with no glue or solder, making them a quick and easy way to prototype.

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Kit Includes:

• • • • Laminated instruction Packet
      • Kit box contents:
        • • • • • • • 12 bits
                    • 1 9 V battery
                    • 1 white cord

This kit includes a powerful, easy-to-use modular synthesizer that helps you unleash your inner rockstar.

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Kids use STEM skills to help Little Red Riding Hood! Perfect for building problem-solving skills, the kit includes a story card that presents a dilemma for kids to solve. Children have to plan, create and test basket designs to hold Little Red Riding Hood’s apples

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Kit Includes:

• Two books:
• A Look at Magnets
• Magnets Push Magnets Pull
• Magnets Career & Lab Guide
• Yellow Zip Bag containing:
  • • 2 Roadsters
    • 8-disc magnets (yellow and purple)
    • 1 pink ruler
    • 2 iron fillings cases
    • 2 magnetic wands (yellow and purple)
    • 2 magnetic meeples (blue and purple)
    • 1 rod (pink) with small pink cap used to tie the string to

1. Learn the magic of magnets!

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Recommended ages: 3+ years

Kit Includes:

• 22 short magnetic sticks
• 16 long magnetic sticks
• 8 long curved magnetic sticks
• 18 colorful balls
• 1 soft drawstring carrying bag
• 1 activity guide

Explore with your imagination! This educational toy promotes problem-solving skills, spatial awareness and critical thinking by building in 2D or 3D.

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Kit Includes:

• • • • One Book:
        • The World of the Microscope
      • Microscope User Guide
      • 52 Piece Microscope Set in gray case
      • Red zip bag containing:
        • 48 prepared slides: 12 of each color
      • Plastic cup with lid containing:
        • Replacement lightbulb
        • 20X eyepiece
        • Pack of 7 cover slides

Explore the world around you – even the parts you can’t see with just your eyes!

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Kit Includes:

• • • • Two books:
        • • • • • • • 50 things to see with a telescope
                    • Ultimate explorer: night sky
      • Telescope in carry case
      • Plastic bag with telescope parts

Explore the night sky!

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Kit Includes:

• • • One book:
      • • Seeing Symmetry
    • Spirograph design guide
    • Blank white work sheets
    • 12 Colored Pens (separate bundle)
    • Spirograph set includes: 22 PLASTIC pieces total
      • 2 rings
      • 1 rack
      • Spirograph white putty
      • 3 design pens
      • 4 shaped wheels
      • 15 wheels

Create tons of unique designs!

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Kit Includes:

• • • Two books:
      • • Everything Weather
        • The Kids Book of Weather Forecasting
    • Laminated experiment guide
    • Experiment kit containing:
      • • 2 plastic bottles
        • Thermometer
        • Balloon (will be replaced each use)
        • Blue tornado tube
        • Rain gauge
        • Barometer tube & ties
        • Anemometer / weathervane
        • Plastic dropper

Learn the science behind the weather all around us!

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Kit Includes:

• • • • • Two books:
          • • • • • • song book
                    • Zin Zin Zin! A Violin
        • Laminated song cards
        • Xylophone, 4 sticks

Learn beginner xylophone.

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It’s never too early to start thinking about what you want to be when you grow up! Pretend play with our complete doctor’s kit. The big, chubby instruments are perfectly sized for young physicians’ hands and include a stethoscope, plastic bandage, thermometer, blood pressure gauge and more!

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It’s never too early to start thinking about what you want to be when you grow up! Pretend play has never felt more real than with our ultimate styling kit! Learn all about becoming a hair stylist or make up artist with our cosmetologist kit! From a blow-dryer that whooshes to a perfume bottle that sprays air, the kit is packed with everything little stylists need for hours of make-believe fun!

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It’s never too early to start thinking about what you want to be when you grow up! Pretend play with our Vet activity-filled center lets young animal doctors bandage pretend wounds, listen to heartbeats, examine X-rays & more! Big, 20-piece set includes all the tools & supplies children need!

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