STEM ideas for girl aged 3

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My dd2 (3) loves things like Brio, Marble Run, jigsaws. I'm wondering what the next step up might be for her, without being too difficult to engage her.

duplo / lego ?

Baking? Plenty of maths in weighing and measuring, and science in melting, setting, aerating etc!

Learning resources have a couple good looking science sets.

brio, lego etc is perfect because they are blank enough that her imagination can completely transform them. The more complicated the equipment, the more limited it is, and at 3 you just want her imagination to spill out.
Other fun science stuff could be planting bulbs, using watercolour pastels and then making the colours run, stacking bricks of many shapes and sizes.
potato printing, shapes, tessellation.

There are some gorgeous books on STEM subjects on the Mighty Girl website.

Thanks. Lego is probably a plan. She does have her dsis's hand me downs and a big box of dh's old stuff so was after some ideas for Christmas but will think along these lines, thanks.

She loves baking, yes! We get
kits in the post that are good.

Playmags. They are consistently the most played with toy by every child visiting (and in!) This house.

Magformers, or i think KNEX have brought out a junior kit which might be worth looking at.

Oh yes magnatiles which are similar- really do last through the ages too.

Snapcircuits have an circuit kit for preschoolers but she might be a bit young yet. If you have duplo already how about hubelino? Basically a marble run but the blocks are compatible with duplo so you can make lots of things.

Some ideas here thetoptoys.blogspot.com/2018/08/best-construction-toys-for-3-4-year-olds.html

Thanks! Has anyone used gears gears gears? Does it have much play value? On my other thread about Pokémon someone has posted about Pokémon megabloks which I think might have to go on the list! I saw a fancy marble run with wire suspension but it said age 7+ and I can't really imagine her managing it. Maybe dd1 would like it

We had gears,gears gears for years and my 9 & 11 yr still use them.

Have a look at the The Happy Puzzle Company they have some very good puzzles, STEM games for children.

My dc did not really like gears, gears, gears despite liking other stem stuff. They did enjoy the Goldie Blox kits, a stomp rocket and the learning resources talking microscope at about that age though.

Gosh thanks everyone, loads of ideas!