Practice storytelling and problem-solving with the Imagination Kit. Pick a challenge, sketch your idea in the imagination sketchbook then build your solution to complete the story.

Create an amusement park, shears for sheep, a sports arena, a pollution-fighting device. Discover these and more with 100+ challenges in the card deck!

What are Strawbees?

Strawbees is a construction set for you to build things that can stand, move, spin, glide, or even walk across the floor.

Strawbees is a construction set, which means it’s made to build things. It is as a material for people to express, test and share their ideas, developing the necessary skills to think creatively.

The 4 color-coded connectors have respectively 1, 2, 3 and 5 legs. You can fit straws on their legs, slide a straw through the hole or click a leg on a hole. Colour-coded straws are carefully measured and resistant enough to endure daily use.

No additional parts are required. You can build structures, mechanical contraptions, and robotic mechanisms all with these 4 connectors.

Features

• Different Ways to Create – sketch, write, or build your ideas.
• Two Levels – two card decks, two types of challenges for different levels of engagement.
• 100+ Challenges, Endless Solutions – no instructions opens up to developing problem-solving skills.
• Creative Thinking skills – see a problem from a new perspective and find new ways to solve a challenge by making multiple solutions.
• All materials are custom-made, durable, and reusable – finish building, disassemble, and begin a new project.

What's included?

• Building straws – 208mm Bendable Green × 50
• Building straws – 240mm Yellow × 50
• Building straws – 240mm Blue × 50
• Connectors – 1-leg White × 130
• Connectors – 2-leg White × 64
• Connectors – 3-leg White × 32
• Connectors – 5-leg White × 24
• Pocketful of Ideas Card Deck × 1
• Activity booklet × 1
• Free access to lesson plans at Strawbees Learning

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• Build a Mechanical Claw - Make a 3 finger claw to grab objects from any direction moving a single straw.
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