Get your budding inventor a copy of Extreme Garage Science for Kids. Published by the Action Lab Channel on YouTube, the book outlines (30) fun and educational experiments using common household items and chemicals, plus a laser pointer, dry ice, glow in the dark stars, a basketball and common household gravity. Profusely illustrated, with easy-to-follow instructions.

You can’t beat the original, genuine, authentic, standard, classic, fine-point Sharpie® permanent red, blue and black markers with the pocket-clip cap. Just can’t. Accept no substitutes, unless we say it’s OK. Our each is one of each color!

Made to protect the noggins of British army cadets, these new, heavy black plastic Airsoft MK7 training helmets measure approx 11” x 9-3/8” x 7-1/2”, like a head, and are adjustable to fit yours. They feature a slight integral bill and ear coverings. The adjustable chin strap has ear pads and a quick-release latch. Made in the UK, because, well, they’re for their army.

These little plastic bots have movable arms and swiveling heads, and come seated in non-motorized, three-wheel cars for sliding fun for the kiddies. Pull ’em out of the cars, and stick on the cute feet and they’re pedestrians. And yes, they come in a bucket. Stand approx 3” tall and sit in 3” long cars. We’ll pick from the (6) interchangeable styles available. For ages 3+.

Everybody needs a Sharpie®! Here’s your chance to snag a whole bunch of them in different colors and tip sizes for less than 72 cents per Sharpie®! You pick: the delightful set of (18) Fine Point permanent markers with classic black, brown, yellow, and multiple shades of red, blue, green, orange and purple; or the (21)-piece set of Ultra Fine Point markers in brown, plus all primary colors, plus a bunch of pastel variations. Always a good idea to have these essential markers on hand. Made in the USA.

No bread involved, and they look like the world’s most complicated cribbage boards, but you circuit riders know what they’re for. These breadboards rated up to 30V at 3A each with stainless steel terminals. You pick the 1680-hole board at 8-3/4" x 5-3/4" x 5/8" thick with (4) columns of 5 x 64 points and (8) power buses total with (50) points each, plus (3) binding posts for power in and ground; or the 2420-hole board at 9-1/2” x 7-1/2” x 5/8” thick with (10) power buses total with (50) points each and (6) rows of 5 x 64 points, plus (4) binding posts for power in and ground.

This switching 5VDC 1 amp USB power adapter features short-circuit protection and draws just 0.13W no load if you’re the sort of person who leaves it plugged in all the time. Output is via a female USB-out and comes with a polarized 4-foot cord and (8) different plugs, among them a mini-USB, and barrel connectors at 4mm/1.7mm, 3.5mm/1mm, and 2mm/0.7mm, plus others for Sony/Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung phones from yesteryear. AC plug folds for storage.

Your better scissors, like these from Clauss, are made from titanium-bonded® steel and have serrated blades with a slip-joint fulcrum. Measure 8” long overall with 3-1/2” blades and recycled contoured plastic handles. Includes a black nylon carrying pouch with a belt loop for traveling crafters or gardeners.

You like to scratch off stuff and see what you haven’t won? Get ready for some serious scratching with this full-color political world map, approx 36" x 20", where all the countries and islands start out gray until you scratch-off to reveal their colors. No Antarctica, sadly, but it’s mostly white anyway. Except for the penguins.

This is no joke, because even we can’t think of any multimeter puns. This one has auto and manual ranges for DC or AC 200mV to 600V +/- 0.8%, DC or AC current from 200u to 200mA +/-1.5%, and 2-10A +/- 3%, resistance from 200-20M ohms +/-1.2% and 20M ohms +/-2%. Also has a type K thermocouple with Fahrenheit or Centigrade readings. (The package is mismarked, but the range should be approx up to 392 degrees F or 200 degrees C.) Tests diodes/continuity and transistors via an access socket that will accept any standard K-type therm. Has a 2-1/8" LCD display, max and data holds, a backlight, and a battery test with load. Comes with (3) “AAA” batteries. Measures 6” x 2-3/4" x 1-1/8". IEC Cat III rated.

These (3) different Blokko building block sets are compatible with you-know-what, including a (117)-piece candy machine, a (109)-piece ATM (candy of a different kind), and a (111)-piece desk organizer. Each will be approx 3" x 2" x 2" when assembled, and will give a kid a nice sense of accomplishment. We’ll send you (2) different ones. Ages 6+.

This set includes (32) hex drive CR-V security bits at 2-1/2” long, including a 6mm slotted; PH1 & 2; T8 through T40; tri-point 1 through 4; spanner heads #4 through 10; pozi 1, 2 & 3; 6-point from 2 through 6; Torx #6, 8 &10; plus the ever-popular rubber holder so you do don’t lose them.

Most commonly, 3D printers use ABS filament (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, and aren’t you sorry you asked?), which is strong, durable and heat-resistant. Our each is 1KG spool of approx 460+ feet of 3mm (1/8”) black ABS filament. What if you don’t have a 3D printer? Well we’d ask, what are you waiting for?

These cute clear glass jars measures approx 1-3/4" dia x 1-1/2" tall, counting the black metal gasketed screw cap. Hold 1 oz each. So now go invent a lip balm and get as rich as Burt and his bees before he lost them in the divorce settlement. You know those little jelly jars at breakfast joints? These are kind of like those. You’ve got a million uses for them.

Our all-time favorite misprint-special featured thousands of pencils marked “Pensil.” We don’t expect to top that, but we do have beaucoup black-ink gel pens with rubber-coated barrels and caps with mangled, mistaken, or over-printed promo messages. They’re yours for a song--or a half-buck each, whether you can sing or not.

These nice, soft microfiber towels at 23" x 14-1/2" x 1/32" come (3) to a pack, (1) in solid forest green, (1) in solid hunter orange, and (1) with a green-brown-white forest scene on the front and solid green on the back. Keep a few packs in the camper, in the truck, on the boat, in the deer stand or at home. Don’t forget--you need microfiber towels at home, too.

Nothing makes you look better than a little soft, glowing ambient light, and we all need to look a tad more marvelous. Luckily, we have three ways. You pick: the 5-3/4” tall tubby rocket ship that emits a creamy yellow glow; the 5-1/2” tall pink flamingo that’s as flattering as a John Waters movie; or our 6-3/8” tall translucent white cactus that will morph through undulating red, green, and blue hues with pink, purple and yellow tones in between. All run on a trio of AG-13 button-cell batteries thoughtfully included.

Sometimes called Linemen’s Pliers or TLs, as in telephone lineman, who we remember screaming as they slid down splinter-covered poles in the Army Pole-Lineman School at Ft. Lewis, Washington in 1966, but that’s another story. Anywho, you don’t need to be a lineman (or from Wichita) to need these 7-7/8" chrome-vanadium combination pliers with 1-5/8" jaws, 9/16" being cutters, 1/2" being pipe-grip teeth, and 1/2" being flat serrated grippers. They’re rubber coated and have braces/hilts on both sides. We love us some chrome vanadium!

Everything you need to build a little DC motor is included in this kit (except sandpaper, screwdriver, scissors and, of course, an AA battery). The instructions are simple and explain the theory as well as assembly. Fun and educational for ages 12 and up.

Just like our famous cow popper, but this guy is a 5-1/4” tall rubber axolotl with a mouth big enough to take a 1-1/8” dia foam ball and spit it 20 feet when you squeeze it, as you will want to do. And if you’re axolotl-ignorant, they’re neotenic salamanders, the world’s cutest amphibians, and they also answer to “Mexican walking fish.” Ours come with (6) foam balls for your axolotl-squeezing convenience. For ages 4+.

Gas masks from the Polish military. They’re a compact 9” tall x 7” wide with glass eye-pieces, a filter and a 6-way adjustable head-strap. Also come with a 8-1/2” x 6” x 4” pouch in an interesting dappled green pattern with adjustable shoulder straps. They look good, but they’re not for actual use--just for excellent costumes and home displays.

The smart cutters and choppers these days are using ceramic knives because they stay so sharp for so long, and who remembers to have their knives sharpened? Ours measure 7" long over all, with a red, green, or deep aqua handle, a 3" blade and a sheath. Don't go into the kitchen without one. Slice, dice, chop and mince, and forget about sharpening. Like you always do.

From Koge Micro Pump Co. (company motto: Let’s PUMP the World!), this nice little diaphragm air pump draws approx 400mA at 12VDC and will put out 3 liters a minute with a minimum pressure of 400mm/Hg. Measures 2-3/4” long x 1-1/4” square with 1/4” long x 5/32” dia inlet, and outlet barbs. Part #KPM32E.

Our most reversible double-axle split and swiveling lantern work-light. Hard to explain, but incredibly handy. Has a pair of opposed but ratcheting frames/handles, bracketing a pair of intense 500-lumen LED COB lights in waterproof housings. Carry it or stand it up and shine the lights up or at 90-degrees or anywhere in-between, together or separately. Probably best to just buy it and see for yourself how useful it is. Measures 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" when it’s folded and double that when open, and comes with (4) “AA”s for power.

A classic returns! Our extra-large punching-nun puppet features a pair of thumb controls that activate very impressive jabs from both sides. A Nun’s Story meets Raging Bull. She’s wearing pretty much the same habit that Audrey Hepburn sported in the aforementioned movie. Ladies and gentlemen...wearing black and white, standing 12” tall with an 8-1/2” reach, weighing in at 1/2-lb… the Super-Flyweight Ecclesiastical Champion of the World, from Niles, Illinois...Sister Mary Punchyerlightsout….

The Junior Scientist™ series brings you the staggeringly clever wind beasts from Dutch artist Theo Jensen. These mini versions of his giant contraptions come with detailed instructions and history of the projects. You pick the Strandbeest (strand as in beach because it was made to walk on sand), an 8" x 6-5/8" x 4-1/4", 117-part wind-powered automaton; or the Rhinoceros Mini-Beest, a 3-3/4" x 6-1/2" x 6", 128-piece wind-powered automaton. For ages 8 and up, the only tool you need is a scissors.

The base of this micro-fiber-optic light is a 1-5/8" high plastic cone in red, green or blue. The tips of the super-thin, 7-1/2" long fiber optics are the color in the cone and flare out in a bouncy spray approx 8" across at the top. We'll pick a color just for you. The Hint-o-Matic says: "Nice on any surface, but worthy of a royal wedding when glued on top of a hat. Just cut a hole in the hat to get to the switch." The (3) button-cell batteries are included and replaceable.

This is what we would call a very nice solenoid valve, from Deltrol Fluid Products. Draws 1A at 12VDC, has an operating pressure of 0-12" water column, can handle liquid to 99 degrees Celsius, and is rated for continuous duty. Measures 4-1/4" x 3" x 1-7/8". Inlet and outlet are both 9/16" outer-dimension, and has 5/16" inner-dimension mounting wings on both sides, plus 2-1/2" leads with a 5mm Molex connector. Part #DSVP11N Made in USA.

Actually, your chickens, plural, since our each is multiples of lovely, plucked and naked chickens in full chicken color. And unlike the real thing, these are small enough to carry in your pocket, because you never know. In molded plastic, you pick the dozen micro-mini pullets at 1-1/2” long, or the 3-pack of 3” long birds. Either way, you’re prepared for any chicken emergency you’re likely to encounter.

We’re especially high on this 5mW red laser level with a prism for perfect pictures, level studs or unslanted TV's. Measures 4" x 2-3/8" x 1-5/8" in a housing with dual bubble levers, pushpins and gum to mount it temporarily. If Bonanno Pisano had had one, that tower in Pisa might not lean at all, but, sadly, Alessandro Volta didn’t get around to inventing batteries for another 600 years. Speaking of which, you’ll need to add a pair of “AAA”s to make that red line happen.

And in black and gold only. This 4” dia, tilting political globe has landmasses in black against gold oceans, and is available at a particularly teacher-friendly price. On a 3” dia base, it stands 5-3/8” tall. Quite complete, with names in small type. Anyone who beholds this beauty will see the world in a whole new way.

The package calls it a Slinky Flow Bracelet, but that’s for the really thick-wristed. It’s more a like a 5” dia, 14-ring Xena-ish armlet for around a bicep, but shake it and it pops into a geometrically complex sphere. Smash it down to make it a set of rings again. In metallic, multi-colored, anodized aluminum. Perfect for a warrior princess who wants to teach or learn about geometry on her days off.

Banking in ceramic pigs is so over. Your modern, incipient hipster kids keep their cash in these life-size, metallic, ceramic human skulls. (They’re also nice glam additions to any productions of Hamlet.) Measure 7-1/2" x 5" x 4-1/2" with a coin/bill slot at the crown and a rubber plug at the bottom, where your spinal column meets your brain stem. We’re guessing that design was on purpose, and we like it. You pick the bronze, gold, or silver glaze.

Or gear down-for the science fair or for any number of hobby projects. This hard-to-find set of (3) combination spur/beveled gears-for when you want gears set either straight or at 90° to one another-also has one small spur gear, plus three bushings. All in red, green, or blue plastic (we'll pick). The combo-beveled gears are 1-5/8", 1-1/4" and 27/32" dia with 3/16" bores to accept the bushings, which are 3/16" OD, 3/32" ID. The straight gear is 17/32" dia with a 1/16" half-bore. All are 24 pitch.

This set of (6) tweezers is as useful as it looks daunting. The (6) stainless steel tweezers vary in size from 4-1/2" up to 7". Two of the tweezers have serrated tips one is inverse, one has a slide latch and the others are straight flat tip. The set comes in a clear front plastic carrying case. Good for model cars, planes or hard to reach splinters.

rubber gloves! These are ultra-strong examination gloves, super grippy for the most slippery jobs. Our high-performance gloves are 9-1/2" long, ambidextrous, single-use, non-sterile, powder-free and very tear-resistant. Each box contains (100) gloves (by weight). The latex gloves have a micro-textured satin finish and enhanced grip. The latex-free nitrile gloves are blue, have a textured surface, with even more grab.

The boys in the back room called this IZoom Pro™ flashlight ludicrously bright, and they’re usually right. Rated at 300, 1200, and 2500 lumens with a strobe setting, light is through a reticular COB LED element with an adjustable focus lens. Takes (6) “AA” batteries, and they’re included. Measures 7” long x 1-1/2” dia in black aluminum alloy body. Has up to a 4-hour life, depending on the beam strength you use.

Nothing quite dresses up a room like intergalactic peel-and-stick wall decals. You'll get one of each from our collection of stunning interior design elements. We have a 9-piece R2D2 who’s 36” x 24” when complete; an 11-piece C3PO who will be nearly five feet tall and two feet wide; and a 17-piece death star that will measure 16-3/4” dia along with sundry fighters. Everything’s vinyl, repositionable, washable and licensed by Lucasfilm. Imagine the anticipation you’ll feel waiting to see them arrive at your front door.

We think we got these solar-powered British bobble-head figures because the sun doesn’t shine enough to make them bobble back home. They’re all 4” tall and include a British Bobby, Beefeater, and Betty herself, Queen Elizabeth II. They stand on 2-3/8" x 2-1/8" bases with 1-1/4" solar cells. We’ll send you (2) different ones in your order.

Once upon a time, backpack users stuck both arms through both straps, but then your cool one-armed pack-slinging caught on, and thus in the fullness of time, the sling bag was born. So, herewith: the chartreuse nylon sling, 18" x 12" x 6" with a single adjustable 3-1/2” wide strap. Also has a zipper along one side, a flap with a 12" x 6" pocket and another 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" outside pocket, both zippered. There’s more: a 6" x 4-3/8" x 8" mesh pocket that will snap to the side, along with a 7" x 5" mesh sleeve on the other side, where you could keep a water bottle. Includes a gasketed port for a headphone cord, and a final 4" x 3" mesh sleeve on the shoulder strap.