Youth Collection and Youth Board Games

The Children's Collection currently includes the following board games:

Aggravation, Apples to Apples Jr., Backgammon, Battleship,  Boggle Jr., Candy Land, Catan Jr., Chanukah Bingo, Checkers, Chess, Chutes and Ladder , Clue Jr., Connect 4, Cootie, Count Your Chickens, Detective Agency, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Don't Break the Ice, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Don't Spill the Beans, Draw Some, Elefun, Game of Life Jr., Gobblet Gobblers, Guess Who?, Headbanz, Hi Ho Cherry-o, I Spy, Jenga, Jenja Giant 4ft, Mastermind, Monopoly Jr., Monopoly Jr. Dinosaur Edition, Mouse Trap, My First Bananagrams, Oregon Trail Card Game, Pancake Pile-Up, Perfection, Pictionary, Pictureka!, Pizza Co., Qwirkle, Rock Paper Scissors, Rush Hour, Rush Hour Jr., Scrabble Jr., Scattergories, Sesame Street Dominoes, Snug as a Bug in a Rug!, Sorry!, Think Boston, Trouble, Twister and Word for Word

Child safety kit includes doorknob covers, door pinch guards, 8" sliding cabinet locks, 5 1/4" sliding cabinet locks and outlet plugs.  This set is great for families or friends who will be having a toddler or baby visiting and need to take temporary precautions.

Let your kids unleash their wild imagination and ideas with Children Hub’s magnetic tiles! There is a puzzle fun ahead! Children's Hub magnetic tiles helps develop shape and color recognition, building and motor skills, communication, space thinking, math, etc. With different shapes that can be combined to challenge their logic and thinking abilities

Creative Forts comes with 44 child-safe joint balls and 86 rods that simply twister and insert the rod to balls. Join together to connect to create a multitude of possible play structures. Plus a carry bag to take the fort building kits with.

Building a fun fort is a great way of improving a child’s STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills. Kids would focus their thoughts on creating the perfect fort, which helps to improve imagination, problem-solving, and critical thinking.

Give your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100. This innovative kit contains over 30 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. Recommended for children 8 and older, this set offers 101 do-it-yourself projects that will give your child an entertaining, concrete education on how electronics work.

Learn by doing. Designed for young engineers 8+.

Explorers can take a closer look and navigate the wilderness like never before with the GeoSafari Compass Binoculars. Lead the way on any adventure with a built-in compass and see nature up-close with 4x magnification through 30mm glass lenses. Includes attached neck strap for on-the-go travel.

Stre-e-e-tch the learning and the fun with the 2-in-1 Explorer Scope! Perfect for nature walks and backyard exploration, this preschool microscope features soft, rubber hand grips, a breakaway neck strap, perfect-fit goggles, and 8x magnification for up-close examination of everything from rocks and leaves to rollie pollies. See something in the distance? Extend the telescoping barrel to bring faraway objects into clear view with 15x magnification that’s just right for the preschool perspective. Up close or far away, the Explorer Scope brings nature your way!

The only binoculars designed specifically for preschoolers. Enlarged focus-free and perfect-fit eyepiece goggles enable kids (even toddlers) to see up close. Kidnoculars were designed for kids' eyes only! Adults eyes may be too far apart for these Kidnoculars. Grades Pre-K+/Ages 3+

Guide to the Stars chart is an instrument to help you identify the constellations. You simply dial-in your observing time and date to find the set of constellations visible in your sky (this is accomplished by turning the clear top piece). Although this chart is designed for beginners, seasoned amateur astronomers will find it useful, too.

This chart can be used anywhere in the world between latitudes 30 and 60 degrees North, which includes the US and Canada, England, Europe, Northern China and Japan.

The KidKraft Lil’ Symphony Guitar is perfect for any kid that wants to learn about music. With the Lil' Symphony Guitar, kids can take part in epic jam sessions or put on concerts for the whole family. This six-string beauty makes a perfect gift for any occasion. It's like the song says; let there be rock!

This tracing light pad is a sleek light-up pad, the light from the pad through the paper clearly illuminates the images, which makes tracing images easy. You can take it anywhere with you easily unlike a traditional light box. Dimmable, STEPLESS brightness, change the Illumination based on your need. It is widely used for multiple domains, such as 2D Animation, Calligraphy, Embossing, Scrapbooking, Tattoo Transferring, Sketching & Drawing, Sewing projects, Stained Glass, Quilting, X-ray viewing etc

Invent everywhere.  Makey Makey is a simple circuit board that lets you reprogram the world by connecting everyday objects to a computer.  Builds creative confidence.  Make a banana piano, game controllers, musical instruments, inventions etc. Makey Makey is a simple invention kit for beginners or experts. 

Learn about the exciting hobby of rock tumbling with National Geographic! Rock tumbling is tons of fun and a great way to start a beautiful rock collection. This set includes all the accessories you’ll need to start polishing dazzling gems. Make any stone sparkle and polish everyday rocks into dazzling gemstones! This rock tumbler kit makes it fun and easy to turn rough rocks into beautifully polished gemstones, thanks to its simple operation and durable design.

Note: Please call the Children's Room to request this item at (508) 473-2145 x247.

This 115 piece set has everything you need to create incredible marble runs that will have your glowing marbles racing toward the finish line! A detailed learning guide has lots of information about the physics of motion and gravity, so you can learn while you play! 

Transform your tablet into a hands-on coding adventure. Designed for ages 5–10, Coding Starter Kit builds coding skills in progression with 3 hands-on learning games. Watch your child learn to code as they connect colorful blocks of code in the physical world to chart the adventure on their screen.

Note: iPad required and not included!

Cooking up math and money skills with the Pizza Co Game from Osmo! Run your own pizza shop! Quickly cook pizza and calculate change using toppings and money tiles. Invest your profits to upgrade your shop as you bake your way to becoming “the big cheese”! Osmo games bring a child's creative imagination to life with hand held pieces that interact with an iPad and/or Fire Tablet and an Osmo Base.

Note: iPad/Fire Tablet required and not included!

Rainbow Pebbles are an exciting construction and early mathematics manipulative. These multicolored stones are perfect for counting, sorting and creating colorful designs, thereby combining math with art! Kids can grow their fine motor skills as they construct, stack and count. How many pebbles can be stacked before they topple over? The open-play nature of these vibrant stones enables kids to explore with their own activities and games. Or, they can use the activity cards included for inspiration in building everyday objects out of the pebbles. 

Speak & Spell is back and it’s just like you remember! One of the earliest computerized learning systems from the 70s and 80s, Speak & Spell was the first educational toy designed to help children learn to spell over 200 commonly misspelled words using a speech synthesizer. Now, a whole new generation can enjoy this classic toy with friends and family for years to come. With multiple play modes and challenge levels, kids will have fun and learn at the same time!

How they works: Students speak softly into the "receiver" and hear their amplified voice directed into their own ear 10 times more clearly against background noise than they normally would hear themselves. Resulting in an effective, multi-sensory learning experience which help kids with their pronunciation, fluency, and ability to distinguish between similar sounds. Ideal for Kindergarten through 4th grade.

Easily connect this microscope to your mobile Android or iOS device without the need for a cable. Also, it supports a USB interface to connect to your computer. This innovative microscope wirelessly streams live footage to over 33FT away while magnifying objects with a 50x to 1000x. At the same time, this digital microscope supports taking photo or video and file storage. Perfect for learning and exploration, skin examination, hair examination, plant dissection/examination, textile inspection, jewelry inspection, collections/coin Inspection, printing inspection, PCB or PCBA Inspection and so on.