Community Builders: A STEM Discovery Kit

from $9.00

Step into a colorful world of neighborhoods, vehicles, creativity, and connection with the Community Builders STEM Discovery Kit — a hands-on sensory experience designed to help children explore how people, cities, roads, and vehicles all work together to build a thriving community.

Inspired by imaginative car stories, open-ended engineering play, and collaborative city life, this kit invites children to become builders, drivers, mechanics, designers, and storytellers through sensory-rich exploration. Children can create neighborhoods, design roads, repair vehicles, build cities, and imagine the many people and roles that help a community function.

Designed to move beyond traditional vehicle play, this kit celebrates creativity, diversity, imaginative storytelling, and connection through tactile, child-led STEM exploration.

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Step into a colorful world of neighborhoods, vehicles, creativity, and connection with the Community Builders STEM Discovery Kit — a hands-on sensory experience designed to help children explore how people, cities, roads, and vehicles all work together to build a thriving community.

Inspired by imaginative car stories, open-ended engineering play, and collaborative city life, this kit invites children to become builders, drivers, mechanics, designers, and storytellers through sensory-rich exploration. Children can create neighborhoods, design roads, repair vehicles, build cities, and imagine the many people and roles that help a community function.

Designed to move beyond traditional vehicle play, this kit celebrates creativity, diversity, imaginative storytelling, and connection through tactile, child-led STEM exploration.

Kit Size Options:

Small Kit

  • Small 1-cup bag of Cars: Inside and Out Sensory Mix

  • Small 1-cup bag of Neighborhood Builders Sensory Mix

  • All accessories, tools, figures, books, and digital product included

Medium Kit

  • Medium 3-cup bag of Cars: Inside and Out Sensory Mix

  • Small 1-cup bag of Neighborhood Builders Sensory Mix

  • All accessories, tools, figures, books, and digital product included

Large Kit

  • Large 5-cup bag of Cars: Inside and Out Sensory Mix

  • Small 1-cup bag of Neighborhood Builders Sensory Mix

  • All accessories, tools, figures, books, and digital product included

Mixes included:


Cars: Inside and Out Sensory Mix

A colorful engineering-inspired sensory mix filled with tiny tires, pipes, hoses, gears, and metallic vehicle-inspired textures designed to spark imaginative STEM play, storytelling, sorting, and hands-on sensory exploration. Children can pretend to repair engines, build vehicles, and explore the many moving pieces that help cars and communities function together.

The Neighborhood Sensory Mix

A neighborhood-inspired sensory mix filled with tiny houses, buildings, and community-inspired people designed to encourage storytelling, collaborative play, and imaginative world-building. Children can create neighborhoods, design gathering spaces, and explore the many people and places that help make a community feel connected and alive.

What’s Included in Every Kit:

Handcrafted Wooden Vehicle Set

  • Handcrafted wooden car hand-painted and assembled locally by My Big World Playscapes

  • One detailed peg doll inspired by the character from Cars! Cars! Cars!

  • One blue peg doll 

Mini Mixes & Building Activities

  • Tiny container of screw pasta

  • Mini fuel container filled with sparkling gasoline-inspired star mix

  • Box of hand-painted road pastas with Paint pen for designing:

    • road lines

    • arrows

    • crosswalks

    • city markings

Mini Books & Storytelling Pieces

  • Mini AutoFans book

  • Mini Cars book

Vehicle Repair & Engineering Pieces

  • Two 3D printed mini wrenches

  • Tiny 3D printed tire iron

  • Four 3D printed vehicles:

    • two cars

    • two trucks

  • Mini Red Gas Can

Car-shaped container with Community & Roadway Accessories:

  • Stoplight

  • Two tiny signs (assorted)

  • Two tiny houses (assorted colors)

  • One tiny car (assorted colors)

  • Mini street barricade

  • A mini Gear

Mystery Elements

  • Mystery bag of community members or tiny plastic figures for imaginative neighborhood storytelling

  • One construction vehicle (Cement vehicle, fuel truck, etc)

Packaging & Digital Companion (Via QR code on the PHYSICAL PRODUCT)

  • Reusable zipper storage container

  • QR code attached to the kit

  • Digital companion product with printable activities and play extensions

The digital download brings the Community Builders Kit to life. Print at home or use digitally!

Includes:

  • Story-based scenario cards

  • Math & Phonics Activites Mats

  • Kit aligned Play & Learning mats (ten frames, city street, ect)

Each kit is designed for open-ended sensory play, storytelling, engineering exploration, fine motor development, and collaborative world-building.

Why You’ll Love It

  • Encourages imaginative STEM and engineering play

  • Supports fine motor development through building, sorting, and designing

  • Inspires storytelling and collaborative thinking

  • Includes creative road and city-building opportunities

  • Designed for open-ended, child-led exploration

  • Inclusive, connection-centered approach to vehicle and community play

  • Pairs beautifully with transportation and community helper studies

Important Warning Information:

• Contains small parts, choking hazard, not suitable for children under 3

  • Adult supervision

  • Not for consumption, do not eat,

  • Storage: Keep sensory materials sealed in a dry location.

  • Items are handmade or small-batch painted, and colors may vary.

• Handcrafted Sensory Materials – Made from pasta, chickpeas, barley, dried corn, dried beans, and tapioca (not intended for consumption).

  • Do not put in eyes, ears, nose or mouth.

  • Wash hands before & after use.

  • May include ingredients processed in a facility that handles eggs, soy, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, fish and shellfish

  • Eco-Friendly & Thoughtfully Designed

  • Some mixes are lightly scented; test first if sensitive.

  • Digital file access provided via QR code in the kit.