30 Best Easter Basket Ideas for Boys

If you’re looking for a great way to foster your little one’s STEM skills, look no further than this ingenious Cratejoy STEM discovery box.

Designed for kids from 7 to 12, you can give your kiddo a three-, six-, or 12-month subscription to this engaging kit. Inside, they’ll find everything they need to tackle three projects in disciplines like coding, chemistry, engineering, and physics projects, just to name a few.

“Both my grandkids work together on the activities. They love them and look forward to them each month,” says one happy reviewer, while another calls the box a “great value.”

Have an amateur astronomer at home? Then this Crayola solar system kit is sure to be a big hit this Easter.

Intended for kids 8 years and up, this crafty kit includes nine planet hemispheres, a Sun hemisphere, six washable paints, a paintbrush, a sheet of stickers, and a galaxy poster with double-sided tape onto which your little ones can attach their hemisphere models.

It’s a great, low-mess way to engage your child’s inner artist and expand their STEM knowledge in one fell swoop. Once they’re finished with this kit, they can also try Crayola’s Gross Science, Liquid Science, Paper Flower, and Paper Butterflies kits.

The only thing cooler than getting a robot in your Easter basket is getting this kit, which gives your kiddo everything necessary to build one of their own. Using the 190 pieces provided, kids can build 12 different types of working solar-powered robots. It boasts a 4.3 out of 5-star rating from over 1,300 buyers, who praise the kit for its easy assembly and excellent customer service.

However, some others note that there are a lot of parts and the instructions are a bit complex, so it’s best tackled with an adult.

While your kids may be too young to go on a proper archeological dig, you can give them the next best thing right at home with this National Geographic Dino Fossil Dig Kit.

Inside, your child will discover a digging brick with three “ancient” fossils—a dinosaur bone, dinosaur poop, and mosasaur tooth—as well as a set of digging tools, a magnifying glass, and a colorful learning guide. With a 4.6 out of 5-star average customer rating, this kit is a hit with kids and parents alike.

If your little one loves all things brightly-colored and shiny, they’re sure to adore this Magic Rocks Crystal Growing Kit. This set lets your kiddo create an awesome alien landscape inside the plastic terrarium provided, which comes with a space rocket background to complete the theme. They’re also a big hit with customers, earning an average 4.3-star rating from actual buyers.

Whether your kid is a stegosaurus stan or an allosaurus aficionado, this National Geographic dinosaur book is sure to be a big hit. With 128 colorful pages and tons of amazing dinosaur facts, reading it (inevitably over and over) is sure to be a roaring good time.

Perfect for long car trips or lengthy waits at the doctor’s office, this four-book Highlights set is ideal any time you want to give your child some screen-free entertainment. Each book is 32 pages long and helps your little one develop their detective skills with new objects to find on every page.

Better yet, it also serves as a coloring book, so your kiddo can still get plenty of use out of it once they’ve found all the hidden pictures.

Even if you don’t have a lot of outdoor space to spare, your child can still enjoy creating their own mini garden with this Grow N Glow Terrarium kit. It comes with everything they need to get started: potting mix, organic wheatgrass and chia seeds, adorable glow-in-the-dark figurines, and a plastic jar to keep everything contained. Once your child has assembled their terrarium, all that’s left to do is add water to bring their brilliant creation to life!

The budding artist in your house is sure to love this scratch art set from Melissa & Doug. The set comes with 16 pieces of scratch art paper in four different color combinations: black with silver holographic material underneath, black with rainbow material underneath, black with colorful “light catcher” material underneath, and white with rainbow material underneath.

A low-mess alternative to paints and markers, this set is perfect for creating masterpieces when you’re out to dinner, in the car, or anywhere else you want to avoid a major mess.

Encourage your child to develop their math skills early on with this set of 100 linking cubes. They can be built in a variety of configurations, teaching your kiddo about grouping, addition, and subtraction, as well as identifying different colors, shapes, and patterns as they play. This is a great gift for kids who are 5 years old or older, and provides hours of fun for the whole family.

If your child has some open floor space in their playroom or bedroom, and you’re not sure what to fill it with, then we have the perfect solution: this innovative and exciting marble super set.

With over 100 pieces to configure, as well as nine projects and 12 challenges to complete, your kids will never be bored. It also helps build on a selection of educational skills, like engineering and math, so they can learn a thing or two as they play.

Rated as “Amazon’s Choice” for snap circuit sets, this one from Elenco is an ideal gift in any young engineer’s Easter basket. Using just the 30 parts included in this set, your child can assemble 100 circuit projects for both fun and educational purposes. And, with the included illustrated instruction manual, your child will be able to easily figure out how to configure any of the suggested models, such as a photo sensor, a flashing light, and more.

Young video game fans will have a ball designing their own game with this genius Bloxels kit. This set lets your little one flex their skills as an artist, storyteller, programmer, player, and more. It comes with a mix of physical and digital tools for your child to tinker with, including a 13 by 13–inch game board and 320 colorful blocks.

The fun thing about the blocks, though, is that each color represents a different element of the game, e.g. water, land, etc., and once a picture is taken of it, it becomes digitized and brought to life to play. Once the game is set on your child’s screen, it can be tested and edited until it’s just right for them to play for hours.

Aspiring crime solvers can use their imagination and investigative skills with this Crime Catchers Spy Science Kit. With the eight included activities, young detectives can solve up to two mysteries by matching fingerprints, DNA, testing powders, decoding secrets, and more. However, because it is so intricate, this kit is recommended for kids who are 8 years old or older.

Designed to encourage STEM development, this wooden domino set is a must-have for your child’s Easter basket this year. With over 100 pieces, kids can create all sorts of domino race tracks, and figure out the most exciting ways to knock them all down.

Building these tracks further develops children’s thinking skills, color recognition, and design ideas. And, because these pieces are safe for even little kids to play with, you won’t have to worry about splinters.

Add some color to your kid’s Easter basket with this set of 300 connector straws. These straws strongly encourage STEM skills through various building and construction techniques. Even more, playing with them will further develop your kiddo’s hand-eye coordination and color-recognition skills.

Because there are so many educational benefits from playing with these straws—aside from just the fun parts—your child will have endless opportunities to learn something new.

Aspiring engineers, inventors, mathematicians, and more can explore their creativity with one of these STEM scribble books. Included are puzzles, patterns, and templates that kids can fill out, or color in, while learning more about their desired field.

Plus, some more critical thinking-related activities are included throughout, such as math problems and designing robots. Thanks to their tech-inspired designs, they’re a great way to wean your kids off their electronics—at least temporarily.

The whole family will have their minds blown by this optical illusions science kit. With over a dozen activities, there are enough games and tricks to keep future scientists and creatives engaged for hours. Some of the included illusions consist of disappearing objects, double-meaning illusions, and colorful spinners. Because everything comes partially unassembled, your kids will have oodles of fun putting pieces together while also learning a thing or two.

Kids can use their imagination and creativity to build colorful 3D creations of their own design—including a box to hold Easter candy—with this 32-piece set of Magna-Tiles. It’s a fun way for them to develop math and science skills while learning cooperation and teamwork.

The set includes square and triangle tiles in assorted sizes that connect with magnets surrounding their perimeter, and all the pieces are made from BPA- and phthalate-free nontoxic plastic. This set is recommended for kids ages 3 and up, and is a customer favorite, with an impressive average of 4.9 stars from more than 9,000 reviewers.

This STEM skill-builder gives kids 8 and up everything they need to create a marble maze using logic and basic engineering concept and includes 60 challenges to keep them occupied. The task is to plan the marble’s path through chambers of connecting towers, letting it fall from top to bottom without getting stuck.

Kids can start building as soon as they open the box, thanks to the detailed manual with instructions on how to set up the game grid for the challenge they want to complete. Since the challenges range in difficulty from beginner to expert, it’s a great gift for families with kids of different ages, too.

What’s more fun than drilling together pieces to make a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, and Triceratops? How about making a Tyranno-tops or Velo-saurus?

Kids get to do just that with this creative construction set. It takes imagination to design their own dino, plus it helps them learn to follow step-by-step instructions and think logically.

The set includes three screwdrivers and one low-speed electric drill with two bits, and each dinosaur has nine parts to assemble, each with moving head, arm, and leg joints.

With this 78-page Klutz activity book as a guide, ordinary LEGO bricks and the materials provided in this kit can be turned into 10 awesome machines with moving parts. Even better: When the machines are put together, they perform a series of chain reactions to do fun tricks like toss a gum wrapper in the trash and ring a bell.

Kids can also dream up chain reactions and experiment on their own by putting together the machines in different orders. The kit includes special LEGO pieces, string, ramps, a funnel, a bucket, and more.

This junior talking microscope will get kids excited about the natural world, with 60 full-color images of plants and animals on 20 slides they can examine at five times magnification. To reinforce what they see, this kit also includes 100 fun facts to learn and a quiz mode with which they can test their knowledge.

The microscope is recommended for kids ages 4 and up and is available in multiple languages. It runs on three AAA batteries, which are included.

Kids get the excitement of building race tracks for marble runs while learning basic engineering, kinetics, and magnetism concepts with this Gravitrax starter set. There are 24 fun problem-solving challenges for them to try, and once they get the hang of it, they can start designing and building their own tracks to increase marbles’ speed and do tricks and stunts. The 122-piece kit includes a marble cannon and there are additional building and expansion sets sold separately.

This is the perfect beginner kit for kids who are interested in DIY projects and building model cars, trucks, and airplanes. They’ll have so much fun tinkering that they won’t realize they’re learning how to think logically and use teamwork. The kit includes enough laser-cut wooden puzzle pieces, gears, battery-powered motors, and screws to build five different vehicles, including a tank, race car, and wind-powered airplane.

All the parts are non-=toxic and glue-free, and everything comes packed inside a gift box, so there’s no extra Easter basket-wrapping necessary. The kit is recommended for kids ages 8 to 12.

Using the wooden pieces, bands, assembly hooks, and other supplies inside this 233-piece kit, kids 8 and up can create a functioning hydraulic crane to pick up objects—including small pieces of Easter candy. There are detailed step-by-step instructions paired with large photos for kids to build at their own pace, and all the pieces are splinter-safe and nontoxic.

The crane moves and lifts when kids push and and pull syringes connected to tubing filled with water, and the STEM toy introduces scientific concepts such as pressure and the mechanics of movement.

Kids ages 5 and up can learn coding basics with this starter kit from Osmo. You’ll need an iPad or Fire Tablet to pair with it, but a wifi connection isn’t needed to play. There are three hands-on games where kids use physical blocks and coding commands to take an adorable character named Awbie (who loves strawberries) on an adventure, compose music, and solve coding puzzles on their own or with a buddy.

Nailing down basic programming will teach them everything from logic and critical thinking skills to problem solving and pattern recognition.

This National Geographic kit is packed with a ton of fun experiments and activities to get kids excited about earth science. They can grow a crystal, build an erupting volcano, create a tornado, go on a geological dig, and more. All 15 tasks have easy-to-follow instructions so kids 8 and up can gain confidence working on their own or enlist a lab partner to learn teamwork.

The kit comes in a colorful gift box that’s sure to make their Easter basket even more irresistible.