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Milestone Kits

Milestones are developmental skills that most children reach naturally within a certain age range and can be used to monitor children’s development. The materials in these kits are specially selected to provide caregivers with activities and guidance to help children reach these developmental milestones.

Loan Details

Milestone Kits

  • Loan Period: 21 days
  • Overdue Fee: 10¢/day
  • Holdable & Renewable (2x)
  • Return to Junior Desk Only
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STEM Kits

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) kits inspire children to think creatively, collaborate, and solve problems. Fairy tales, folk tales, and STEM career kits keep children engaged and can help provide context for abstract concepts. STEM kit audiences range from preschool to age nine and up.

Loan Details

STEM Kits

  • Loan Period: 21 days
  • Overdue Fee: 10¢/day
  • Holdable & Renewable (2x)
  • Return to Junior Desk Only
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Storytelling Kits

Storytelling kits bring classic picture book stories to life with cloth characters, props, and interactive activities. Encourage oral language development, storytelling, sequencing, problem solving, and early literacy skills through games, flashcards, and puzzles.

Loan Details

Storytelling Kits

  • Loan Period: 21 days
  • Overdue Fee: 10¢/day
  • Holdable & Renewable (2x)
  • Return to Junior Desk Only
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Memory Kits

Memory kits provide age-appropriate activities for adults living with dementia and memory-challenges and their caregivers. Each kit contains games, books, music, and creative projects that help spark memories, facilitate conversation, and create positive and meaningful interactions.

Loan Details

Memory Kits

  • Loan Period: 21 days
  • Overdue Fee: 10¢/day
  • Holdable & Renewable (2x)
  • Return to Info Desk Only

Meeting Milestones Kits:

Milestones: Birth – 12 months

Introduce your baby to textures, colors, and sounds.

Milestones: 12 – 24 months

Build cognitive skills sorting by shapes and color.

STEM Kits:

Activity Kit: Rollipop Toddler Fun

Use tracking for visual memory and visual perception. (9-24 months)

Activity Kit: Fort Builder

Experiment with stability, balance, design thinking, and problem solving. (4-11)

Engineers: Roll and Race

Explore motion, friction, cause and effect. (18 months+)

Engineers: Create a Chain Reaction

Firsthand practice with STEM concepts such as gravity, force and momentum. (4-7)

I Can Build It: Architecture Set

Develops skills in early STEM concepts and spatial reasoning. (4+)

Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood

Develops skills in problem solving, the design process, counting, weight, volume, and cause and effect. (3+)

Fairy Tales: The Three Little Pigs

Develops skills in using the design process, exploring cause and effect, and experimenting with gravity and force. (3+)

Fairy Tales: Goldilocks & The Three Bears

Develops skills in using the design process; exploring cause and effect; and experimenting with size, weight and balance. (3+)

Fairy Tales: Billy Goats Gruff

Develops skills in using the design process, exploring cause and effect, and experimenting with size, weight and balance. (4+)

Careers: Mechanical Engineer

Develops critical thinking skills and perseverance while encouraging family engagement. (4+)

Careers: Computer Engineer

Develops skills in problem solving, testing designs, making observations, sketches, and models. (4+)

Careers: Civil Engineer

Develops critical thinking skills and perseverance while encouraging family engagement. (4+)

Careers: Architectural Engineer

Develops critical thinking skills and perseverance. (4+)

Science Station: Science of Motion

Develops skills in exploring motion, using scientific inquiry skills, and using tools for observation and investigation. (4+)

Folk Tales: John Henry

Develops skills in structure and stability, the design process, understanding gears and problem solving. (7+)

Folk Tales: Paul Bunyan

Develops skills in force and motion, structure and stability, the design process and problem solving. (7+)

Inventors: Thomas Edison

Develops skills in friction, force and motion, engineering and the design process. (9+)

Storytelling Kits:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Strengthens oral language, early literacy, and higher-order thinking through activities in sequencing and reasoning. (2-4)

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Supports children in building spatial reasoning, problem-solving strategies, and oral language as part of their early literacy journey. (3-7)

The Snowy Day

Encourages students to practice problem solving, geometry, and critical thinking while also supporting oral language and literacy development. (5-8)

The Rainbow Fish

By exploring buoyancy and engaging in scientific inquiry, students develop observation skills alongside early literacy and oral language growth. (6-9)

Pete the Cat

Helps students develop important oral language, story sequencing and early literacy skills. (5-9)

The Napping House

Through story sequencing, oral language practice, and early literacy activities, students gain key foundational skills. (4-8)

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?

Students build early literacy skills while strengthening oral language, inferencing, and problem-solving abilities. (4-6)

Puppets: Billy Goats Gruff

Develops oral language skills through play. (2+)

Puppets: Goldilocks & the Three Bears

Develops oral language skills through play. (2+)

Puppets: The Three Little Pigs

Develops oral language skills through play. (2+)

Memory Kits:

Memory Kit

Spark memories, create conversation, and provide positive and engaging interactions.

Memory Kit: Danbury History

Contains local history books and images about Danbury.