The Best STEAM & STEM Books for Kids

This book has 20 easy-to-follow projects that introduce Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math concepts to preschoolers!

What we love about this book is that it presents preschoolers with open-ended problems to solve. This books allows kids to learn through creating and having a ton of fun!

This book has over 50 STEAM activities for kiddos ages 3 to 6! It is also the recipient of Creative Child Magazine 2018 Book of the Year Award, Activity Books category and Learning Magazine’s 2019 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family!

It’s filled with great activities that are designed to help parents prepare their children for kindergarten while equipping them with 21st century learning skills!

This book has 55 hands-on experiments designed for kids two and up. It’s a great pick for parents and teachers of toddlers and preschoolers with a ton of sensory experiences, figuring out how things work, and testing the limits of materials!

This book by James and Susan Patterson introduces big vocabulary words in such a delightful way for preschoolers!

It’s also pretty great to teach kiddos some impressive words and has beautiful artwork!

Energy Lab for kids has 40 great hands-on activities that are less typical than the energy activities you can find doing a search online. It's nice to have a book of activities that push kids a bit further to learn more complicated subjects in a hands-on way and this book definitely does not disappoint!

We love this Question a Day Journal for Kids! It's the perfect way to start conversations with open-ended questions that help to encourage critical thinking skills and recall memories.

We love all of Andrea Beaty’s books especially Ada Twist, Scientist! This book opens the door to have conversations about scientists (especially girl scientists!) and introduces the scientific method.

This book is a must read for all STEAM kids!

This book is a great way to teach children the different areas of STEM while having fun coloring and doodling!

The book is filled with images of various STEAM careers that help familiarize the world of engineers, scientists, programmers, and creators.

Looking for some more hands-on activities that incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM)? Then you have to check out STEAM Kids! 

This book features more than 50 hands-on activities that are organized into easy to implement categories, so you know exactly what concepts your kids are learning!

You can also get instant access to this great book by purchasing a downloadable PDF!

What we like most about this book is that many of the materials needed for these Engineering experiments are simple household items that you already have on hand!

We also appreciate that this book covers different disciplines of engineering like Electrical engineering, Civil engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Chemical engineering!

This book is the newest to our collection and we are loving all of the easy to set up STEAM activities and games included. 

100 Easy STEAM Activities was written by the creator of Raising Dragons, one of our favorite go-to blogs for hands-on learning activities! 

This book has more than 50 engineering activities for kids ages 5-10! These activities are designed to help kids discover STEAM connections by showing how engineering relies on science, technology, art, and math. 

This book has more than 100 fun STEM and STEAM projects and explains the science behind them!

This books is ideal for 9-14 year olds who love to tinker! Cardboard Box Engineering encourages kids to work with simple household tools and follow step-by-step instructions to learn the basics of physics and engineering!

We are huge cardboard engineers at our house, so this book is one of our favorite go-to books for activities with items we already have on hand!

This is one of our favorite tech activity books. The activities are rated by level of difficulty as well as time, which helps to figure out what activities to get started with.

Super Arduino has so many cool tech activities that we would be crazy not to include it here! We love working with Arduino in our house and recommend this book for kids who have some Arduino experience already or as a motivator for kids just getting started with Arduino programming.

The book highlights the achievements of trailblazing women like Jane Goodall and lesser-known pioneers like Katherine Johnson, the physicist and mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon!

We LOVE this book! It’s incredibly empowering for young girls to read about the women who paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, scientists, programmers, doctors, physicists, and more!

This book is filled with tons of incredible ideas to learn math through art and is great for both teachers and homeschoolers.

Python Crash Course is a fantastic book for kids just getting started with Python programming!

We just ordered this book for my teen who wants to learn to program mods in Minecraft! In Learn to Program with Minecraft, kids will work with Python, a free language used by millions of professional and first-time programmers!

The books begins with short, simple Python lessons in order to learn new skills needed to program Minecraft mods. Kids will build foundational Python coding skills and learn to customize Minecraft to make mini-games, duplicate buildings, and so much more!

You'll need Windows 7 or later; OS X 10.10 or later; or a Raspberry Pi to work through the lessons in this book.

We love this book because it smashes typical stereotypes and introduces and celebrates that masculinity can mean so many different things!

The book is a compilation of 75 famous and lesser-known rule-breakers and stereotype-smashers from the past and present day including Frank Ocean, Barack Obama, Beethoven, and more!

What’s better than moving things without touching them like a Jedi or exploding a balloon with a beam of energy? Not much!

This book is perfect for new Star Wars fans and Jedi Masters alike!