Gift ideas for curious tweens who like science, encylopedic facts, and making/building things?

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Maribeth · Answer

Crunch Labs Subscription: Build cool and fun engineering projects with them when the monthly box comes in! Or hang out with them while they do it, ready if they need help or encouragement!

Crunch Labs was started by Mark Rober, former NASA engineer for the Curiosity Mars Rover, who got famous making engaging and often silly engineering videos of YouTube (like the glitter/fart bombs for package thieves!). Kids and adults alike get a kick out of his projects.

Dawno · Answer

How I Killed Pluto: Great book. Also Packing for Mars. Also Journey of the Pink Elephants. All narrative non fiction. Very well written.

amy · Answer

pay their registration for a cool workshop (that they want to go to): i was a crafty kid and everyone was obsessed with giving me craft kits as gifts which like…ok sure but they’re mostly little bits of junk that want you to behave in a prescribed way. i wish someone would have like, paid for me to take a sewing machine class instead