GALLERY
Proud of this crew! 🛠️✨
These kids self-organized, worked and supported each other, and creatively built a large structure out of PVC pipes and various shapes of joints — brainstorming, problem-solving, and cheering one another on the whole way.
That’s real #teamwork + #engineering thinking + #leadership in action. Moments like this build collaboration skills, confidence, resilience, and imagination far better than any screen 📺
Huge respect — you crushed it! 🙌
3D printing camp week wrapped up!
We are so impressed by how much this group of kids picked up in just a few days! We have all exhibited a lot of interest in 3D printing, creativity and collaboration. Know that none of them had any previous #cad experience before, and these are some small samples of what they designed and printed. Very impressive!
Also thank you to our patient and knowledgeable instructors provided individualized guidance and support to each child and always so encouraging and helpful ❤️
Our 6-week progressive 3D design and printing class is now open for enrollment. First session Aug.19th Wednesday. 45 spots total.
#eldoradohills #3dprint #caddesign
🎉Exciting News for STEAMLabs Kids families! Summer fun 🍉has been a blast - now let’s keep it going all year!
We are launching Monthly Membership so your child can enjoy hands-on STEAM fun and learning all year long!
✅ weekly lab
✅ fresh content weekly
✅ build real skills in Science, Engineering, creativity and problem-solving
✅ join the STEAM community ❤️
📍Limited spots due to small lab size. Secure yours now!
Link in bio to learn more and signup.
#membership #community #eldoradohills #folsom #steam
Last night the staff wrapped up a special team evening at home! As a new business, we brought our full team together for dinner, connection, and in-depth training.
We focused on how we can serve your families even better - practicing warm, customer-tirst storytelling, learning to truly listen, and reviewing our standards for professionalism, safety, and communication with parents and children.
It was inspiring to see everyone so engaged. We also celebrated all of our five-star reviews across the platforms and thanked the team for the heart they bring every day.
A stronger, more aligned team means even better experiences and care for you and your kids. Thank you for trusting us on this journey!
More great things ahead +t
#FamilyFirst #SmallBusiness #Grateful#team
Can’t finish the Kitchen Chemist camp week without the beloved strawberry 🍓 DNA 🧬 extraction experiment!
Kids had lots of fun, asked lots of good questions and first time saw and felt DNA strands! Plus it smells good! 😊 one child told all of us her dad studies human DNA and her dream is also to become a scientist 👩🔬. Love hearing stories like that!
This is a very simple and fun experiment and you can easily recreate the experience at home. DM if you have any specific questions!
#scienceexperiments #chemistry #summercamp #homeexperiments
Today we also learned about nutrients: water, fat, carbs etc. and then did this milk rainbow 🌈 experiment together.
You can do this at home too. Prepare whole milk, add food coloring, and then dipping in dish soap 🧼. The dish soap will quickly work to separate water and fat of the milk as fat is not water soluble. And will create this beautiful effect. Try it!
#chemistry #science #eldoradohills
Fun and inspiring labs is one of our foundations, another key foundation of our commitment to the community is to provide and nurture open, creative play to for kids to #make and #build. We encourage kids to make anything, and build anything and provide variety of materials and tools to them. Check out the short clip to see just a few examples of what they can achieve when not on screen. We believe kids are at their best when they collaborate to build something or solve a problem. Something clicks when their heads and hands are working together.
Comment below with your thoughts!
#makermovement #eldoradohills
At one of the labs today, kids used chemicals to turn water temperature hot 🥵 and cold 🥶. ranging from 40F to 120F without any external temperature source. They had a great understanding of temperature now and experienced the power of chemicals. #chemistryisfun
#science #chemistry #handsonactivities
Today we kicked off the ‘Kitchen Chemists’ camp week! One of the labs kids did was to create volcano with clay, and then use baking soda, vinegar and food coloring for super fun volcano 🌋 eruption. Kids really loved it and we all learned about what would happen if acid meets alkaline.
Who knew #chemistry can be this fun?!
#eldoradohills #folsom #science
That’s a wrap! Truly one of the most fun week of the camp. The kids worked incredibly hard to understand concepts about aerodynamics: thirst, lift, wing shape, speed and much more. They made airplanes and used a wind tunnel to test the performance and completed in an air show. Definitely quite a few impressive flights (distance, acrobatics, accuracy and more) and check out the cool designs!
Then we ended the week with 3D in house printed airplane toys for all. 🏆
They all learned something new, made new friends and had a lot of laughters. Our staff worked very hard this week as well. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
#eldoradohills #folsom #paperairplane #science
When kids are calm, we take out one of our class room pets, a leopard gecko 🦎- Steam to be petted by kids. It is a roughly 2 month old leopard gecko. We talked about gecko’s usual behaviors, diet and more.
Want to guess what other pets we have in the lab? Comment below. Hint: they all love eating crickets 🦗 #eldoradohills #folsom #pet #gecko
Mr.Keith never rests! Even during his lunch break, he walked around showing different groups of kids of science experiments like this one and explained the WHY ❓behind of it.
Comment below if you know why the water won’t just spill out through the thin piece of paper just laying on the cup!
#eldoradohills #folsom #science
This morning the kids at the Aviation camp did the 🎈 balloon rocket experiment. We explained the concept first, showed some visuals and kids headed to the competition. 🥇 what a fun and tangible way to learn about basic physics concepts!
What Kids Learn from Balloon Rocket Experiments:
• Newton’s 3rd Law: For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. Air rushes out backward → balloon shoots forward! (Just like real rockets.)
• Forces & Motion: How thrust, air pressure, and friction work.
• Experimenting: Test variables like more air, different shapes, or added weight to see what makes it go farther or faster.
Simple, fun way to understand propulsion and physics! 🚀🎈
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #science
🎉 Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🇺🇸
From all of us at STEAMLabs Kids, we’re celebrating 250 years of freedom, courage and innovation that built this beautiful nation! ❤️🤍💙
We believe that courage sparks ideas, and innovation changes the world — today and every day!
Here’s to the next 250 years of bold ideas and fearless makers! ✨
At @steamlabskids, we encourage and engage with children with all art mediums to Increase creativity and Create mental space for focus and relaxation.
Keith has been enjoying air dry clay lately to create a few his favorite characters from #spongebob 🧽.
Does your child like SpongeBob or air dry clay? #eldoradohills #steam
Updated July camp schedule!
Due to high demand and great customer feedback from the last #3dprint week, we decided to add an 3D printing week. If your child loves 3D printing, and want to learn how to design and print, and bring some self-designed 3d printed items home, this is your chance! A few spots left!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #steam
@steamlabskids proudly provide many different open-ended, educational, fun toys for kids to play.
One of the toys kids love the most is @snapcircuits. Kids play this to learn core concepts in circuits ⚡️, problem solving and much more benefits.
Four more weeks camps to go in July and some week has been sold out. Check out the remaining and reserve your spot! #eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp
3D Printing camp is wrapping up. What a success! All kids went from never using any #cad software to design and make a thoughtful and sweet #fathersday gift for their loving fathers. #From shot glass 🥃, to cookie 🍪 container; from phone 📱 stands to toolbox 🏆…
We learned basic shapes, how to translate idea to software, learned from failed prints and made new friends.
Here we wish all Fathers an early happy Father’s Day!
July 20-24 is a newly opened 3D printing camp. DM for question for tag someone who might be interested. Or comment ‘3D’ for more info!
#eldoradohills #folsom summercamp2026
In between themed labs, we engage children with creative, open plays like @kevaplanks. Plays like this promote creativity and focus, encourage engineering thinking, help children learn to problem solve, collaborate and think critically.
We love seeing little engineers discussing how to light weight, reduce material usage or building the next most creative structure. We also love to see kids being a good sport and making it fun to take down the structure they built 😆#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #steam
3D Printing camp week off to a great start!
Today we introduced basic 3d shapes to kids as well as 3D modeling software @tinkercad. All of the kids never used TinkerCAD but got comfortable with it very quickly and started designing. And we made a first success print from a creative kids, he designed and made a ‘Block Dude’!
Looking forward to seeing more successful prints tomorrow!
Day Pass available. DM for details.
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #3dprinting
One of the labs of this week’s camp is ‘Extracting DNA 🧬 from strawberries 🍓’. Kids had lots of fun and full of awe. This is a great experiment you can do at home with your kids too.
1. DNA you can actually see! 🍓 Kids can extract real strawberry DNA with simple kitchen items. Turns invisible science into a wow moment
2. Hands-on biology lesson 🧬 Mashing, mixing & spooling DNA teaches cells, genetics & the scientific method while building fine motor skills and curiosity. Perfect at-home experiment!
3. Sparks lifelong STEM interest ✨ Messily fun, and super memorable—great for family bonding or classrooms. Watch your kids light up as they pulling out the dna strings!
3 more spots left for next weeks camp. Check it out now! Onto 3D Printing!
Last call for next week’s camp - Tiny World! 🌍
This is one of our favorite week - extracting 🍓 DNA 🧬? Build and take home a self-sustained ecosystem? Discover the wonders under microscope 🔬? All will be in this week! Guarantee kids will have multiple ‘AHA’ and ‘WOW’ moments!
Want to take a guess what is under the microscope? Comment below!
A couple of more spots left!
#science #summercamp #eldoradohills
Friday Capstone project - The kids built a Ruth Goldberg machine! Using tracks, marble run, leverage gravity, using pulley for energy transfer, and kicked off dominos even leading them to upstairs!
It’s a wonderful way for kids to visually understand important physics concepts. As Elon Musk said: “Physics is a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.”
DM if your kids are curious, love hands-on, and you want them expose to physics. A couple of other weeks also touch important physics concepts.
Congratulations to the kids ‘Forces and Motion’ camp! You all worked hard and played hard. Stayed very curious and experimental. Great job!
Next week - onto Chemistry! ‘Tiny World’!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #steam
Today kids used marbles🔮, cardboard, dominos to design and experiment chain reaction and compound machines. All of this week is to gear up for tomorrow’s capstone project: a Ruth Goldberg machine!!
They were all engaged, curious and collaborative. We loved hearing them to use their newly acquired physics terms to describe their vision!
Know someone with a child that’s also curious and with a passion STEM? Tag them in the comment!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #science
Third day of camp ‘Forces and Motion’ was a success! In the morning children learned about ‘potential energy’ and realized that concept by building a catapult🪨;
afternoon they learned about chain reaction ⛓️💥; also had a lot of fun playing Jenga and learned about electricity and circuit ⚡️
Interested in a Trial day? Comment ‘Trial’ below or DM us!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #steam
Another day of Building, Discovering and Growing!
Today, Camp 1 cohort learned about friction, Newton’s 3rd law 🧠 (every action has an equal and opposite force); they competed using balloon rockets 🚀 to fully understand the law. And spent quality time building in teams.
The next weeks still have a few spots left. Week 8 completely sold out. Sign up soon to secure!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026
#physics
Attention families in El Dorado Hills, Folsom and surrounding areas - to celebrate the successful kick off of our summer camp ⛺️, give back to the communities and allow more families 🧑🧑🧒🧒to try out our STEAM 🔬🚀🤖 camp experience, we are giving away 5 one-day camp experience ($80 value each)!
See the poster on how to enter and tag with someone who might be interested!
Comment ‘giveaway’ below to receive direct link to apply! Thank you!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamps #giveaway
Who knew card boards 📦 can be so fun?
After the second lab in the pm, during free play, kids transformed themselves into a group of knights 🛡️⚔️. It was so fun to see them use their creativity, crafting skills and imagination into a game!
Looking forward to seeing what these kids will come up with tomorrow!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026
The morning of the Day 1 ‘Forces and Motion Mayhem’ camp was a success! We all introduced ourselves to each other and the lab.
Kids learned about speed, mass, gravity and much more. They also formed teams to make vehicles with LEGO and measured their performance. Way to go Camp Forces and Motion!
Still a few spots left for later weeks. Sign up soon!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026 #STEAM
🎉 Watch these little engineers in action!
From a pile of sticks and connectors to building their own fort — that’s the magic of open-ended building toys! 🏗️✨
Why we LOVE these building toys at STEAMLabs Kids:
• Boosts Creativity & Imagination
• Develops Engineering & Problem-Solving Skills
• Strengthens Spatial Reasoning
• Learns collaboration and teamwork
• Encourages Persistence & Resilience — When it falls down? They learn, tweak, and build it better! 💪
These toys turn playtime into powerful brain-building time — all while having a blast!
Our kids (ages 5–11) can’t get enough of them during open play and in our STEAM classes.
Who else had epic building sessions as a kid? Tag a parent whose child would love this! 👇 Our summer camp is kicking off next Monday on June.1st. Between labs kids will play open ended toys like this and self organize with supervision.
#eldoradohills #folsom
In this simple experiment, Keith used yeast, sugar and water to inflate a balloon in a few minutes. Kids can learn the process of fermentation and release of gas in a very visual and fun way.
This is also one of the labs in the ‘Kitchen Chemist’ week summer camp.
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp #scienceexperiments
Keith created a fully working robotic hand🦾🖐️ with card board, string and straw!
This project isn’t just fun — it helps kids develop:
✅ Problem-solving & engineering skills
✅ Fine motor coordination & creativity
✅ Understanding of simple mechanics
✅ Nurture interest and boost confidence
Watching kids light up as they bring their ideas to life is what we love most!
Ready to spark that same creativity and hands on skills in your child? Join our STEAMLabs programs today!
#eldoradohills #folsom #robotic #summercamp
What an incredible day at the International Kids festival! 🎉🌟
Our booth was buzzing with happy families and curious minds exploring hands-on experiments! 🧪🔬 Nothing made us happier than seeing those bright eyes light up with pure awe and excitement the moment they “got it”! ✨😍
There’s something so special about kids diving into hands-on discovery — it’s so natural, joyful, and full of wonder! 🌈❤️ We’re truly grateful we got to create that magical space for them.
Thank you for stopping by! Thank you for organizing the great event for families!
#ScienceForKids #HandsOnLearning
We’re thrilled to introduce Bennett Patterson, one of our lead instructors 👨🏫 for STEAMLabs Kids summer camps!
A UC Santa Barbara alumnus 👨🎓 with a degree in English, Bennett combines strong technical knowledge with excellent communication skills — allowing him to explain complex concepts in ways that are engaging and easy for children to understand.
Mr.Patterson is currently a certified substitute teacher in El Dorado County and also a robotics🤖coach for a local private school.
With a deep passion for hands-on making and years of experience guiding young learners, he brings exceptional expertise and enthusiasm to every session.
Mr.Patterson is an accomplished maker and STEAM educator with extensive training across multiple disciplines, including robotics, 3D modeling, animation, circuitry, and video game development.
Please join me to welcome him to the STEAMLabs Kids family!
#eldoradohills #folsom #instructor #summercamp
🛠️ Hands-on fun that builds big brains! 🧠
Look at this little maker turning simple PVC pipes into an astronaut 👨🚀command center! At STEAMLabs Kids, we love watching kids explore engineering, creativity, and problem-solving through open-ended building.
Why PVC pipe play is awesome:
• Develops engineering & math skills (balance, structure, angle, measurement)
• Sparks imagination (forts, rockets, castles… the possibilities are endless!)
• Builds confidence through trial, error, and “I made it!” moments
No screens. No instructions. Just pure creative engineering with safe, lightweight materials.
This is exactly the kind of joyful, skill-building play we bring to every STEAMLabs Kids camp!
🌟 Spots are filling up fast for summer — give your child the gift of confidence and creativity!
Comment “PVC” below and we’ll send you more info! 👇
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026 #pvcpipe
This is one of our favorite 3d printing pieces! So beautiful 🤩 Want your child to experience the process from an idea 💡 to a tangible item they can hold and touch ✋? It’s so great for building design thinking and problem solving.
Check out our 3d printing summer camps (one session in June and one session in July).
Comment ‘3D’ below for more camp information!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026 #3dprinting
Too much screen time? Give your child an unforgettable summer, away from screens - using their little hands to build, discover and grow! 🚀
Summer camps at STEAMLabs Kids are filling fast!
Hands-on, small group fun that makes kids fall in love with STEAM while building confident and creativity.
Ages 5-11 | Full day Camp (9-4)
📍1150 Suncast Ln, Suite 4, El Dorado Hills
Who is ready for a hands-on summer 🍉? Comment 'STEAM' below or DM us for more information. or Tag a parent who needs this! ❤️
🐾 Meet Lizzie the Blue-Bellied Lizard 🦎 and her best friend Keith!
Every day Keith shows her love and care. Yesterday when Lizzie started shedding, Keith turned it into a real science moment — he carefully placed her shed skin under the microscope… and the results were absolutely stunning! ✨🤩
The beautiful patterns and iridescent scales looked like tiny works of art.
This is what hands-on STEAM learning looks like — combining animal care, curiosity, and real science discovery!
Our students don’t just learn about biology… they experience it every day. ❤️
Who else loves turning everyday moments into science adventures? Comment below! 👇
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026
✨ Exciting News for Young Creators! ✨
Get ready for an unforgettable summer! 🚀 STEAMLabs Kids is hosting 2 sessions of hands-on 3D Printing Summer Camp for kids ages 5-11!
Kids will:
• Sketch and design in TinkerCAD
• Bring their creations to life with real 3D printing
• Take home their very own custom-printed souvenir! 🏠
Plus tons of other fun design & build activities!
📅 Two Sessions Available:
• June 15–19
• July 27–31
This is the perfect STEAM adventure to spark creativity, problem-solving, and tech skills this summer! 🔥
Spots are filling up fast! Register now 👉 (link in bio)
Watch Keith go from frustration 😖 to pure joy! 🎉
After multiple failed attempts (you’ll see some of them in the video 😅), he finally got the dominoes to fall perfectly. But the real win wasn’t just the chain reaction — it was everything he learned along the way:
✅ Understanding cause and effect
✅ Staying patient when things don’t work
✅ Learning from every mistake
✅ Getting back up and trying again
This is exactly why we do what we do. Hands-on experiments like this build resilience, critical thinking, and confidence in kids — skills that last a lifetime.
If you want your child to experience these “aha!” moments too, send them to us! Spots fill up fast. DM to schedule tour.
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026😎☀️🤗
🚀 Forces & Motion Mayhem is HERE!
One of the coolest labs in our June 1st week is all about building your own race track 🛤️, measuring distance and time ⏱, then calculating speed like real scientists!
Kids get to test different surface materials (hello, friction!) and try various weights — even using an orange as a creative weight 😂🍊
They’ll form hypotheses, run experiments, and actually understand Newton’s 2nd Law in the most hands-on, fun way possible.
This isn’t just another activity — it’s pure physics + laughter + learning your kids will be talking about all summer! 🧠✨
Spots are filling fast for Summer Camp 2026!
Who’s ready for some Motion Mayhem? 👇
#EldoradoHills #Folsom #SummerCamp2026 #PhysicsFun
Cardboards can be great for kids to play creatively. They will learn to design and make and then play with it. 📦
Keith spent hours yesterday playing with card board and making. 🛡️⚔️
Join us in the summer camp to have kids play with creativity and their hands, away from screen. #eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026😎☀️🤗
Ever wondered what strawberry 🍓 DNA 🧬 looks like?
Join our Week 2 (6/8-6/12) to experience this lab and many more fascinating labs!
This camp delivers genuine microbiology 🧫 and chemistry experiences that build observation skills, critical thinking, patience and a true sense of wonder. ✨
Comment 'DNA' or message us to learn more and reserve your child's spot!
#eldoradohills #folsom #summercamp2026 #steam #steamcamp
🎉✨ Why Hands-On Learning is a Game-Changer for Kids! ✨🧪
Did you know that letting kids build, experiment, and get messy actually supercharges their brain development, confidence, creativity, AND love of learning? It’s not just about STEAM—it helps the whole child grow!
From stronger problem-solving skills to bigger smiles and “I did it!” moments, hands-on play is pure magic. 💡🚀
Read our latest blog post to discover why this approach is so crucial. Link in comment.
What’s your child’s favorite hands-on activity? Drop it in the comments! 👇
#STEAMLabs #HandsOnLearning #ParentingTips #ElDoradoHills #STEAMCommunities
🚀🔬 TINY WORLDS: Microscopes & Hidden Life! 🔬🚀
Get ready for a week of scientific discovery! Kids ages 5–11 will dive into the invisible world around us using real microscopes, grow their own microbe colonies, hunt for water bears, extract real DNA, build edible cell models, and create their own ecosystem in a bottle!
🧪 Microscope Lab
🧪 Grow Microbe Colonies
🧪 Hunt Water Bears
🧪 Extract Real DNA
🧪 Edible Cell Models
🧪 Ecosystem in a Bottle
📅 June 8 – 12, 2026
📍 1150 Suncast Lane, Suite 4, El Dorado Hills, CA
Register early and save $30! Limited spots — sign up today!
👉 www.steamlabskids.net
#STEAMCamp #SummerCamp2026 #eldoradohills #folsom
🚀 FORCES & MOTION MAYHEM! ⚡June.1st - June.5th
Rockets blasting off!
Catapults launching projectiles!
Ramps racing marbles!
Collisions crashing with energy!
Physics comes ALIVE when kids build and test their own real devices!
🛠️ Design & Build
🚀 Launch & Experiment
🏆 Test, Tweak & Compete
A full week of STEAM excitement that builds creativity, engineering skills, and scientific thinking!
📍 Location: 1150 Suncast Ln, Suite 4, EDH
Reach out for questions or register on our website!
Register today to enjoy early bird discount!
Limited spots — Register soon! #STEAMCamp #SummerCamp2026 #eldoradohills #folsom #summercamps
🚀✨ Hands-on STEM magic is happening right here in El Dorado Hills!
Our kids are ditching ‘I’m bored’ and screaming ‘Come see what I built!’ with SnapCircuit! 😍⚡
From buzzing alarms and spinning motors to glowing lights — they’re lighting up real circuits AND their brains at the same time! 💡🧠
Parents are calling it the BEST screen-free activity in the Valley. Real skills. Real confidence. Zero soldering needed!
Ready to spark that same excitement in your child?
📍 Check out our exciting 8-session summer camps in El Dorado Hills! Reserve now to save for your first session! 🔥
#eldoradohills #summercamp2026 #designbuild #STEMEducation #steam
🔬✨ From “Eww, a fly!” to “WHOA… look at that!”
Our kid just had their mind blown learning how a real fly’s leg looks under the microscope — hairy, spiky, and straight out of a sci-fi movie! 🪰
This is the exact kind of “AHA!” moment we create every day at our STEAM Summer Camp. No screens. No worksheets. Just real microscopes, real bugs, real questions, and kids lighting up with discovery.
Science isn’t something they read about… it’s something they DO. And once they see it for themselves, they never look at the world the same way again. 🧑🔬
Spots for Summer 2026 are filling up fast! If you want your child to fall in love with learning through hands-on adventures like this, come join us.
📍 El Dorado Hills, CA
🔗 www.steamlabskids.net for details or registration
Tag a parent who needs to see this! 👇
#STEAMcamp #MicroscopeMagic #KidsInScience #SummerCamp2026 #RealLearning CuriousKids STEMtoSTEAMSTEAMElDoradoHills



































































