Empowering Toys for Girls

Toys have a significant and lasting impact on the ways children learn to view themselves and their place in the world. While our parents may have grown up with toys that promoted more traditional gender roles, today's generation of girls has access to products that aim to empower them.

The rise of a new generation of pro-girl toys are challenging the archaic gender roles they espouse and changing ideas about how girls play. Proving that the female population can accomplish anything it sets its mind to, these toys for girls include  STEM kits, construction sets and dolls. 

Thames and Kosmos Pepper Mint Great Treehouse Adventure

In this story-based STEM kit, Pepper Mint visits her aunt who is a scientist researching primates. She lives in a treehouse in the rainforest on the island of Borneo. The treehouse is not connected to the electrical power grid, but Pepper Mint and her aunt devise mechanical inventions to accomplish various tasks.

They equip the treehouse with mechanical equipment using pulleys, winches, and gears, and learn lessons in physics. Projects include a rope ladder, a pulley to lift heavy objects into the treehouse, a rubber-band-powered lift, a rotating palm leaf umbrella, a zipline, a catapult, and a trap door. At the end of the story, Pepper Mint wires up a string of LED lanterns using conductive thread and a battery holder to light up the treehouse in the dark jungle night. While doing this, she learns about electric circuits. The kit includes materials to build the treehouse and do the projects, a full-colour illustrated storybook and step-by-step instruction manual, as well as a scale Pepper Mint figurine.

Lego Women of NASA

Follow in the footsteps of 4 pioneering women of America's space agency - NASA with this fun and inspiring LEGO set.

Build the Hubble Space Telescope and learn astronomy with the 'Mother of Hubble' Nancy Grace Roman. Develop the software for space missions with computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. And launch the space shuttle with Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, and Mae Jemison, the world's first woman of colour in space.

Fossil Hunting Lottie Doll

Lottie is a doll with an age-realistic body shape. The Fossil Hunter edition was developed in collaboration with TrowelBlazers, an organisation dedicated to highlight the achievements of women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology. The `Gold Collection' Fossil Hunter Lottie includes Lottie's fossil hunting tools (magnifying glass, trowel and geology hammer) as well as ammonite fossils. A set of special collector cards about the British female fossil hunter Mary Anning teach and inspire children to learn about her life and achievements. There is also an additional sheet featuring notable women in palaeontology. 

Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold Engineers

Embark on an adventure of personal creativity and invention with fan favourite Rosie Revere! This activity book features art from the picture book Rosie Revere, Engineer and will inspire young readers with activities of all kinds. Children will have the chance to design a better bicycle, build a simple catapult, construct a solar oven, and several more inspiring projects. This empowering activity book will teach problem-solving and creative-thinking skills crucial to STEM fields while also providing opportunities for its readers to try new things and, sometimes, to fail. As the picture book so brilliantly showed hundreds of thousands of young readers, flops are an inevitable part of success and something to be celebrated rather than feared. Created by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, the same New York Times bestselling team who brought us Rosie Revere, Iggy Peck, and Ada Twist, this activity book will be perfect for old and new fans alike. 

Our Generation Nicola Doll

Inspirational Our Generation doll, dressed as a doctor with removable lab coat, medical accessories and equipment.  Nicola has long dark brown hair, closing eyes, poseable limbs and a soft body.

Usborne Sticker Dolly Dressing Action

From private investigators and fire fighters, to movie stars and stunt artists, this action-packed book is packed with dolls to dress with over 300 stickers. With extra accessories to add including helmets, harnesses, tool kits and special technology. A fun sticker book for young go-getters!

Nancy B's Science Club Microscope and Activity Journal Set

Nancy B's Science Club encourages children to feel confident and excited about experimenting with science. Young scientists will learn about the world around them with this engaging science kit as they carry out experiments and record their observations by working through the 22 page activity journal. This microscope features LED lights to transform it from a dissecting microscope into a light microscope and 30x to 400x magnification. Includes activity guide.

And lastly.... it's not exactly a toy, but would make a great empowering present for any feminist tween or teen....

Astronaut Lip Balm Set

A lip balm set that is out-of-this-world! This set of 3 fragranced lip balms are perfect for budding astronauts. Not tested on animals.