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STEM & Play

The toy range

Hands-on sets, crafted for curious classrooms

From a $25 number board for every new entrant desk to a full engineering lab for Years 3–8. Every set is open-ended, shared by groups and made by hand in New Zealand.

Years 0–6 · 156 pieces

Play Planks

Notched plywood planks that slot together into buses, boats, castles and playhouses big enough to climb into.

  • Engineering
  • Spatial reasoning
  • Collaboration

$680 NZD

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Years 3–8 · 3-box creator set

Building Beams

A bolt-together timber engineering kit with wheels, pulleys and rope, for real-world machines children design themselves.

  • Simple machines
  • Forces & motion
  • Problem solving

$799 NZD

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Early childhood – Year 2 · 156 pieces

Play Planks Mini

Everything children love about Play Planks, scaled down for smaller hands, smaller spaces and younger builders.

  • Fine motor skills
  • Imagination
  • Early maths

$490 NZD

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Early childhood – Year 1 · Board, 7 segments & 10 cards

Dots & Digits Number Board

A wooden seven-segment peg board with 10 double-sided number cards, digits on one side and dot-to-dot tracing on the other.

  • Number recognition
  • Counting
  • Fine motor skills

$25 NZD

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Watch the sets in action

See what one set can become

Short videos of real builds, from a life-sized bus to a working go-kart.

Play PlanksBuilding a school bus, plank by plank
Building BeamsWhat's in the box, and what you can build
Building BeamsStep by step: building a go-kart, then taking it for a ride
Play Planks MiniA Play Planks Mini house goes up
Dots & Digits Number BoardBuild, count and trace every digit
Dots & Digits Number BoardLearning time: two young learners build and match the numbers

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Which set suits your learners?

Not sure? A large build set plus Dots & Digits boards for juniors covers the whole school. Ask us for a recommendation.

SetBest forWhat's includedLearning focusPrice
Play Planks Years 0–6 156 pieces · 12mm plywood Engineering, Spatial reasoning, Collaboration $680 NZD
Building Beams Years 3–8 3-box creator set · Solid timber, steel fixings Simple machines, Forces & motion, Problem solving $799 NZD
Play Planks Mini Early childhood – Year 2 156 pieces · Plywood Fine motor skills, Imagination, Early maths $490 NZD
Dots & Digits Number Board Early childhood – Year 1 Board, 7 segments & 10 cards · Wood, upcycled card box Number recognition, Counting, Fine motor skills $25 NZD

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