The STEAM Toys Coming Out in 2018 That Want to Teach Your Kids the Fun Way

Fisher-Price's newest STEAM toy, the Think & Learn Rocktopus ($60), teaches your 3- to 6-year-olds about music with 15 unique instruments across five different genres while also combining number, pattern, and math skills.

Your young scientist can flex their STEAM muscles with the Crayola Color Chemistry Lab Set ($25), which comes with an instruction booklet full of 50 colorful science activities to try out at home, plus enough Crayola materials and supplies to do 15 experiments right out of the box.

Everyone loves a weird experiment, and this Gross Gummy Candy Lab ($20) lets you eat the results by making your very own sour worms and spiders, all while learning about the properties of natural polymers. It hits stores in July.

The KumiKreator ($30) is going to be a serious game-changer for kids who love to craft. The friendship bracelet maker, which allows the crafter to create up to 10 unique and colorful bracelet designs in a flash, will be available this Fall.

Crash and smash with the Hot Wheels Corkscrew Crash Track Set ($45), which comes with loops, motorized boosters, and one Hot Wheels car to make for a whole lotta fun.

Teach your little one to code with this get-up-and-learn game that turns your child into a "robot" and challenges them to race to the finish.

A STEAM toy with a '90s vibe, the Project Mc2 Lava Experiment ($15) has everything your kid needs to create their own bedside lava lamp.

Plinkode is a fun introduction into coding that involves replicating sequences to code 20 different levels, and it promotes logical thinking and problem solving.

LittleBits's four new Hall of Fame Kits ($40) — Crawly Creature, Bubble Bot, Night Light, and Arcade Game — touch on every aspect of STEAM at an entry-level for tiny inventors. All four kits are sold separately but can be combined to create even larger and more intricate inventions.

Your bath-loving child can make four Monster Bath Bombs with this kit.

The Lego Ninjago Stormbringer ($40) can come to life with the same technology as the Lego Boost kit creations.

Start little ones off on their own Crayola journeys with the My First Crayola Line, which grows with your child through each stage of development with different art products, such as crayons, paints and brushes, and markers.

Learn the science of becoming a veterinarian with Veterinary Science, which features five different vet activities such as learning to suture.

For kids ages 8 and up, the build-it-yourself Jurassic World Kamigami Robots ($60) connect to the Kamigami Jurassic World mobile app to customize the dinos' movements, interactions, lights, and special Jurassic World sounds.

Your kids can make their own edible jewelry with the Project Mc2 Gummy Jewelry Science Kit ($25), out now.

Lego Duplo is helping little ones learn to code with its Steam Train ($60) that rides on track pieces containing action bricks that tell the train where to go and how to move. The train set is available in August.

Put the blow dryer down and pick up the Crayola Crayon Melter ($25), which evenly melts used crayons in minutes to create wax creations on and off paper.

This Thames & Kosmos Crystal Growing: Glow-in-the-Dark set ($45) lets mini scientists grow dozens of colorful crystals that light up in the dark. Mold plaster shapes like a moon, a star, or a butterfly and let the layers of crystals grow around them. This kit is for kiddos 10 and up and will be in stores in July.

Boxer the AI robot ($80) is an interactive robot with a personality that evolves over time. He plays games, has sensors, and hits shelves this Fall.

With the Ben 10 Alien Creation Chamber ($30), kids can create their own custom three-inch alien figures by mixing and matching different alien parts.

The Shanghai skyline comes to life with this Lego Architecture set ($60).

With the Hot Wheels Track Builder sets ($10-$50) there are endless ways for your child to experiment and create with different tracks and elements.

Little gymnasts 8 and up can get some serious air while playing Fantastic Gymnastics Vault Challenge ($20). Compete head to head to make sure you stick that landing when it comes out in the Fall.

Kids 6 and up get the lowdown on levers and linkages in the best way possible: by making their very own Alien Robots ($30) that have arms and a tail. They can also build their own grabber claw that acts like a pair of scissors.

Whether your kid already loves Rocket League or not, Hot Wheels is integrating physical play into the mix with smart-device controlled, blue-tooth connected vehicles that play together in the Rocket League Arena with the Hot Wheels Rocket League RC Rivals Playset ($180).

The Jurassic World Pterano-Drone ($120) takes flight through a hand-held remote control and has kid-friendly auto-circle and auto-land features.

Out now is the latest drop from Lego Technic, the 330-piece Racing Yacht ($40).

Budding scientists 6 and up can dive into their own experiments using the Thames and Kosmos Ooze Labs Chemistry Station ($40). Make glowing slime, watch fizzing reactions, and test cabbage juice pH levels when it hits stores in July.

These Off-Road Rovers from Thames & Kosmos ($30) let mini engineers build 10 different off-roading vehicles, like a dune racer or an ATV with a full-on belt drive. Kids 6 and up can start building in July.

Make bath bombs and learn all about how acids and bases combine to form fizzy reactions. This Soap & Bath Bomb Lab from Geek & Co. Science ($20) will hit stores in July.

Children ages 7 and up can go to town using a hammer and chisel to uncover the skeleton of a very scary prehistoric creature from a giant block of plaster with the T. Rex Excavation Kit ($13).