Strawbees STEAM Starter Kit

The Strawbees STEAM Starter Kit is an inviting introduction to hands-on learning with straws and connectors. Designed for classrooms, makerspaces, and young inventors at home, this kit transforms simple materials into a powerful tool for creativity and problem-solving.

With color-coded pieces, children quickly grasp how different connectors and straws fit together, making it easy to get started. The included activity booklet and poster guide learners through playful challenges that spark curiosity and encourage experimentation.

The experience of building with Strawbees is open-ended and student-driven. Young makers can design everything from geometric shapes and expressive creatures to large-scale structures that stretch their imagination. In the process, they explore important concepts such as balance, stability, and motion, while also practicing persistence, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.

Educators love how seamlessly the STEAM Starter Kit integrates into lessons or after-school activities. It supports cross-curricular connections—from exploring the angles of a triangle in math to designing a kinetic sculpture in art—while keeping learning active, tactile, and fun.

Compact yet versatile, this introductory toolbox is the perfect way to begin a journey into STEAM learning, empowering children to invent, test, and reimagine their ideas endlessly.

Strawbees STEAM Starter Kit

• Grades: 1+
• Number of Students: 1-2
• Number of Lessons/Activities: N/A
• Contact Hours: N/A
• Additional Resources: NEW AI Project

Highlights:

The introductory toolbox for educators in learning environment and young makers at home looking for a STEAM solution.

• Activity booklet and poster
• Color-coded pieces
• Perfect introduction

The STEAM Starter kit is a personal sized building set with 230 pieces to build several small towers, moving mechanical cranes and arms. The building set comes with 5 different precut straw sizes and 4 color-coded connectors organized in the box.

Includes a colorful and inspirational poster!

For at home: everything needed to start inventing out of the box to engage learning at home.

For educators: use as a way to build anything from the Strawbees Learning platform or use as a personal kit in a professional training environment.

Key Features

Play = Learning – extend learning at home for young makers and build creative thinking skills to invent anything you can imagine.

Self-Oriented Learning – an introduction for teachers, librarians, and STEM educators to follow along on Strawbees Learning platform and professional development experiences.

Different lengths & color-coded pieces – there are 4 types of connectors and 5 different cut straw lengths cut all color-coded making it easy to follow the activity instructions.

All materials are custom-made, durable, and reusable – finish building, disassemble, and begin a new project.

Kit Contents:

• Connectors – 1-leg Blue × 37
• Connectors – 2-leg Yellow × 18
• Connectors – 3-leg Green × 25
• Connectors – 5-leg Red × 13
• Building straws – 240mm Blue × 25
• Building straws – 205mm Green × 12
• Building straws – 112mm Pink × 30
• Building straws – 80mm Orange × 36
• Building straws – 48mm Yellow × 34
• Activity Booklet × 1
• Poster × 1