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STEM Toys for Christmas!

On my lunchtime outing from the office and into Stevenage town centre I popped into one of the shops looking for ideas for Christmas presents for my nieces (both 4 now) and I found this 'Build your own Den' kit! ?

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Love the idea of getting them to build their own little houses/towers/castles/shops all while learning how things are constructed and all about the laws of physics and structural integrity etc!  The only pity is that it's kind of gender stereotyped by having just a young boy depicted on the packaging which means that both my nieces will complain that it's a 'boys toy' and 'not for girls' ... ?


So why didn't they think to picture both a boy and a girl on the packaging?  Or maybe they do a 'pink' girls version separately... ?


If you have any other ideas for STEM themed toys to entertain a couple of four year old's over the Holiday season then I'd love to hear them!
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  • None for a 4 year old Lisa Miles‍, but WHSmith have some pretty awesome STEM gifts at the moment (most 8+ years) - didn't manage to get photos of all, but here's a few I did snap. Didn't have time to look at them in detail but the covers at least are refreshingly free of gender stereotyping ?

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  • None for a 4 year old Lisa Miles‍, but WHSmith have some pretty awesome STEM gifts at the moment (most 8+ years) - didn't manage to get photos of all, but here's a few I did snap. Didn't have time to look at them in detail but the covers at least are refreshingly free of gender stereotyping ?

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