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Station 1 Sensory Exploration kit laid out: station sign, Station Exploration Guide, Event Coordinator Guide, texture cards, scent cards, scent containers and essential oils set
Station 2 Animal Movement Obstacle Course kit: animal tracks posters, station sign, track stamp set, track cut-outs and washable paint pads
Station 3 Fossil Formation kit: station sign, guide, supply box, rolling pins, shells, starfish, feathers and leaves
Station 4 Camouflage Challenge kit: six habitat backdrop scenes, station sign, guide and camouflage strategy cards
Station 5 Cells and Microorganisms kit: Three Shapes of Bacteria poster, station sign, guide, Glo Germ powder with UV flashlight, habitat cards and microbe cards
Station 6 Nature's Architects kit: Forces in Nature poster, station sign, guide, animal-builder cards, clothespins, craft sticks, pipe cleaners, binder clips and design record sheets

Turnkey STEM Experience

STEM Event TO GO

$2,500.00

Six hands-on stations, every material, printed signage, a step-by-step guide for every facilitator, and online training that shows anyone how to run them. One kit serves up to 150 participants.

No electricity at any station, no food anywhere, and nothing to source but a short list of everyday supplies. Version 1 is Amazing Animal Features, built around the Caldecott Honor picture book What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.

Experience
Experience: Version 1 — Amazing Animal Features

Ships complete in seven containers — six station totes plus a master resource box.

A named event support contact, from the day you order through event day.

Reusable year after year. Only the everyday consumables run out.

Purchase orders and tax-exempt paperwork welcome.

The Short Version

Six stations. One tote per station. Every material, every printed sign, a guide for every facilitator and a training video for every activity. You pick the date — the hard part is already done.

Participants
Up to 150 per kit
Stations
Six, banded K–1, 2–3 and 4–5
Runtime
About two hours, come-and-go
Space
~2,500–3,000 sq ft, or spread across rooms
Power
None. Every station is unplugged.
Staffing
One adult per station, plus a coordinator
  • No food at any station
  • No science background required
  • Reusable next year
  • Ships in seven containers
The whole kit, as it arrives1200 × 1200 pxAll seven containers together — the six colored station totes and the master resource box — cut out on a transparent background. PNG, no scene behind it, since it sits on a colored card.

In the box

Seven containers arrive on one pallet. Open them and you are holding a finished event.

  • Six station totesOne plastic tote per station, labeled, holding every consumable and non-consumable material that station needs.
  • A master resource boxAll event signage and printed station signs, family flyers, promotional posters and the Family Exploration Guides.
  • Seven printed guidesOne Event Coordinator Guide for you, and six Station Leader Guides — one per facilitator, each covering only their own station.
  • Family Exploration GuidesA booklet families carry from station to station to record observations and sketch what they find, with “Take the Learning Further” ideas to take home.
  • Customizable digital filesEditable versions of the family-facing materials, so invitations and signage carry your school’s name, date and start time.
  • Online training videosA walkthrough of every station, so a volunteer who has never run an event like this can watch one video and be ready. Access details come with the kit.
  • A dedicated event support teamA named contact at Central Creativity from the day you order through the event itself.

What you add

A deliberately short list — the things that spoil, get used up, or that every school already owns. All of it is named in the guides with quantities, so nothing is a surprise the week of the event.

  • Station 1Eight to ten extra cotton balls, in case a scent fades mid-event
  • Station 212–15 plastic rings, cones, stepping stones or floor tiles for the obstacle course
  • Station 3Reusable modeling clay or dough — roughly 15–20 palm-sized balls
  • Station 4Crayons, markers or colored pencils
  • Station 5Nothing. Every material this station needs is in the kit.
  • Station 6Modeling clay or dough again, plus two or three textbooks or standard weights for load testing, and a few pencils and rulers
  • Event-wideSix brightly colored plastic tablecloths, one per station, a cloth for the check-in table, and a copy of the picture book

Version 1 · Amazing Animal Features

Six stations. Not one of them is a worksheet.

Every station answers a question from What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, the Caldecott Honor picture book by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. The book is not in the kit — most elementary libraries already own it, and the guides give three ways to work it in.

Sensory Exploration station kit, laid out

Station 1K–1

Sensory Exploration

Sniff six mystery scents and match animal textures by touch alone.

Animal Movement Obstacle Course station kit, laid out

Station 2K–1

Animal Movement Obstacle Course

Read real animal tracks, then move through a four-zone course the way those animals move.

Fossil Formation station kit, laid out

Station 32–3

Fossil Formation

Press shells, leaves and feathers into clay and watch a fossil form.

Camouflage Challenge station kit, laid out

Station 42–3

Camouflage Challenge

Hunt for animals hiding in six habitat scenes, then design one that disappears.

Cells and Microorganisms station kit, laid out

Station 54–5

Cells & Microorganisms

Match microbes to their habitats, then switch on the UV light and watch germs glow.

Nature's Architects station kit, laid out

Station 64–5

Nature’s Architects

Build a structure out of craft sticks and clothespins strong enough to hold a textbook.

People actually doing it1800 × 700 pxA wide shot of a real event in progress: adults and children together at a station, hands in the materials, the printed station sign visible behind them. Very wide crop — it runs the full width of the page.

Three different people have to love this.

A STEM event fails in one of three places — the materials are thin, the volunteers are lost, or the planning eats a month. This is built so that none of those is your problem.

Everyone who walks in

They get the real thing, not photocopies.

Studio-printed station signage. Photographic texture cards and six habitat scenes big enough to lose an animal in. Actual essential oils, a real UV flashlight, wooden track stamps, child-size rolling pins. It looks like a museum brought it in — which is the reaction you want in the first thirty seconds.

The volunteers running the tables

One guide each. Their station, nothing else.

Every Station Leader Guide carries the script, the materials checklist, the setup diagram and the background science for one station. Nobody reads sixty pages to run one table, and nobody has to know the science beforehand — there is a training video for every activity. A parent volunteer can do this cold.

Whoever has to plan it

The details are already decided.

A planning calendar and a promotion calendar. A room layout with three table configurations per station. A setup timeline by the quarter-hour, a facilitator role chart, an optional welcome script and a post-event checklist. Plus the honest list of what you still have to buy, with quantities.

From pallet to doors open

  1. Open the totesSeven labeled containers, checked against an inventory list. The only thing left to buy is the short list above.
  2. Find six adultsOne per station, plus you. Parent volunteers are the usual answer.
  3. Tell peopleThe family flyers and promotional posters are already in the master resource box, and the promotion calendar says what goes out when.
  4. Set up in two hoursTables, totes, check-in. A fifteen-minute huddle before doors open is the whole rehearsal.

And there is no long lead time. The kit ships complete and ready to run. What sets your date is how much notice your own audience needs — not how long we take.

The seven printed guides1400 × 1000 pxThe Event Coordinator Guide and all six Station Leader Guides fanned out on white, covers showing, so the color-coding per station reads at a glance. Same studio treatment as the station photographs.

Questions

What if we cannot find enough facilitators?

You need one adult per active station. Parent volunteers work well in the role — the Station Leader Guide carries the script, so no science background is required. If you are short, run fewer stations rather than leaving one unstaffed.

What if our space is too small?

Spread the stations across several classrooms. Station 2 is the one that wants room, and it works in a hallway or outdoors.

What about allergies?

No food is used anywhere in the experience. Station 1 uses essential oils for smelling only — nothing is ingested — and a child with sensitivities can do the texture half of that station instead.

Can we run it again next year?

Yes. Everything but the consumables is reusable, and the consumables are the short list of everyday items above. Repack the totes at the end using the post-event checklist and the kit is ready for the next event.

Is this only for a family STEM event?

No. The same six stations run as a daytime field trip rotation, an after-school club session, a library or community event, a booth set at a fair, or a grade-level enrichment day. The come-and-go format is what makes it flexible.

Can we put this on a purchase order?

Yes. Ask for a formal quote and we will put it in writing with line items, shipping and any volume pricing you qualify for. Send your tax-exempt documentation at the same time and we will apply it to the quote.

Want the long version?

The full experience, station by station

Room layouts, the complete planning calendar, what a two-hour window actually looks like, and every station in detail.

See the full experience Request a quote

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