The Best Science Subscription Boxes For Every Age Group

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Getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) can be a challenge for parents. But the rise of subscription boxes for science has a solution. Each month, these boxes provide your kids with fun activities and experiments that aim to be enjoyable first and foremost, but also incorporate important scientific concepts and lessons into the entertainment. There are options out there covering most levels, so you should always be able to find something both age-appropriate and tailored to your kid's particular interest.

Green Kid Crafts is more of a STEAM (STEM with art included) learning tool, with art projects mixed in with the science experiments in each box. Each box contains equipment for four to six activities and a 12-page magazine that guides kids through the activities, explores the concepts in more detail and even suggests books and additional activities.

The boxes cover a wide range of STEM topics, with boxes either tailored to the ages 2 to 5 or 5 to 10, and previous offerings including the Shapes and Structures Box (with some introductory geometry concepts covered) and the Interesting Insects Box (with entomology-related topics looking at bees, butterflies and more). They're priced as low as ​$24.95 per month​*.

This monthly subscription box is one of the few science kits that focus explicitly on the needs of younger learners, aged 4 to 7. Groovy Lab in a Box is focused on STEM topics, with each box containing equipment for the projects inside and a 20-page Lab Notebook, which contains guidance for the activities and space to record their results.

Each box is focused on a specific topic – for example, the Clean Water Act – but all of the boxes have a critical thinking and problem-solving aspect. The culmination of the activities in each box is the Engineering Design Challenge, where the kids have to think creatively to solve a problem using the skills, scientific knowledge and equipment they've gained from the box. The box costs as low as ​$24.95 a month​* if you pay for a year up-front.

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For example, a previous box focused on the science of trees, with projects investigating the capillary action trees use to draw moisture up through the soil to their leaves and branches, and another one that looked at the balanced structure of trees. The boxes start as low as ​$16.95 a month​*.

The [Girls Can! Create](https://www.cratejoy.com/subscription-box/girls-can-crate/

STEM Discovery Boxes are monthly crates containing three STEM projects per month aimed at kids aged 7 to 12. The boxes come with instructions and all of the equipment you need for the science experiments, which focus on a range of topics, including physics, coding, engineering, electronics and chemistry. One example box included hydrophobic (i.e. water-repelling) sand, a project to make (and use) and UV spy flashlight and a pom pom slingshot, all of which incorporate important concepts into a hands-on learning format. The boxes start at ​$24.95 a month​*.

The [MEL Science boxes](https://melscience.com/US-en/chemistry/

[Beautiful Discovery](https://www.cratejoy.com/subscription-box/flock-eco-games/

[Creation Crate](https://www.creationcrate.com/order

*Prices reflect accurate pricing as of publication.