Grades 1-5

Full and half day options

 

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Design & Build Workshop

AM Only Option: Imagine what you can do with science and engineering! This challenge based workshop will allow kids to repurpose items using the engineering and design process to dream up  something new, useful, fabulous or just plain fun! Construct creatures that can move with magnets, build an all weather shelter for a critter, and upcycle a clothespin into a catapult. Design a water filter that really works, and create a car that’s built to keep an egg from crashing! 

Full Day Option: NEW Afternoon designers will delve into sustainable energy by building a Kiwi Crate Solar Crayon Recycler, transforming old crayon bits into new creations.  Enjoy an afternoon of fun free-choice STEAM activities will include building challenges, painting projects, and design opportunities to spark creativity and innovation.

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Hogwarts STEAM Express  

AM Only Option: All aboard the Hogwarts STEAM Express!  Join us on Platform 9 ¾ for a week of science magic and fun filled learning.  Engage in Potion Mastery and with crafting magical brews. Explore Herbology and the senses with real dried plants and herbs to create a potions ingredient jar.   Use invisible ink like the Marauder’s Map to create secret messages.  Dive into Divination and make a color changing crystal ball to see what the future holds.

Full Day Option: NEW! Full Day wizards will experiment with the magical  Kiwi Kit Slime Circuit Crate.  Afternoon free choice STEAM activities include spellbinding glow in the dark jewelry, custom wands, feather quills and bubbling potion experiments.

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Minecraft Mania

AM Only Option: Using the updated Minecraft Education platform, Minecraft Mania skillfully blends virtual and real-world learning experiences for maximum learning and fun.  In the morning, become an intrepid explorer using a Minecraft avatar to dive into the wonders of engineering, physics, and biology to build our own Wicked Cool Minecraft Town. Follow up with fun, companion hands-on STEAM lessons and build a compass, a light up Creeper, towers and a brick style plant!

Full Day Option: NEW In the afternoon, the Mania continues as we use our creativity to learn how circuits work.  Experiment with motors and electricity then design your own ultimate Draw Bot Kiwi Crate drawing robot to take home. Choose your own projects in the afternoon free choice STEAM fun.

*This class will require access to Wi-Fi. We will use a secure VPN network to run the game privately in our classroom.

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Rocket Science ‘26  

AM Only Option: Join us for New England’s ultimate Rocket Science experience, and launch into the world of space exploration! Our Rocket Science morning session features the easy to build customizable E2X model rocket.  Keep a Captain’s Log and venture to the rocky planets and the gas giants in our solar system. Build a model satellite, make glittering galaxy slime and build a mini telescope.  Feel the adrenaline at the high-flying solid fuel rocket launch at the week's end (weather permitting).

Full Day Option: NEW Afternoon explorers will also enjoy free-choice educational space activities including crafting space models, creative spacey art projects, and solar science experiments for an out of this world experience.  Finish off the week with a Kiwi Kit Bottle Rocket Blaster to take home.

 

Wicked Cool Med School

AM Only Option: Is there a doctor in the house? Follow the progress of your own “patient” all week as we journey into the inner workings of the human body. Keep medical charts and become an anatomy specialist while learning the body systems. Learn to use a stethoscope, take vitals signs, and investigate digestion!  Get into “gross anatomy” as we create a model of a human cell, 3-D eyeballs and slime mucus!

Full Day Option: NEW Full-day doctors continue the learning with the Kiwi Crate Moving With Muscles project. Discover how muscles work by building an athlete that can kick a ball with rubber band "muscles." You'll also flex your arm muscles as we build a bow and arrow for some foam archery practice. End each day with free-choice life science STEAM arts and crafts.​​

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Pre K-K

Half Day Programs

 

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Dinosaur Adventure  

Go back in time and meet the dinosaurs who ruled the earth. Make a dino dinorama and find out how dinosaurs got their names. Have a roaring good time and make your own dinosaur costume to wear from Kiwi’s Dinosaur Crate. Be a real paleontologist and create some clay fossils for future excavations.

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Down on the Farm

Come meet us down on the Farm! Learn about animals and how they adapt to their environment.  Become a junior farmer and identify animal tracks and plant some real seeds.  Build a Barn with Kiwi’s Farm Crate.  Make fun farm animal finger puppets and a bead garden to take home.

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LEGO Junior Imagineers 

Build fun mechanisms and investigate basic engineering concepts using DUPLOs.  Listen to stories based on popular fairy tales and then design simple machines to help solve our hero’s problems.  Next, build and take home two race cars from Kiwi’s Speedy Race Cars Crate.

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Nature Explorers 

From creepy crawly bugs to wind and weather, we’ll explore all that nature has to offer.  Start your own rock collection and make leaf printings. Make a bug box to observe little friends and a bracelet that turns colors using the sun’s power.  Using Kiwi’s Wind Crate, make a windsock and sail car to harness the power of the wind.