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Use Your ESA Funds to Get Cooper Kits!
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Cooper Kits are story-based adventures:
Each explores STEM, creativity, reading and life skills. Ideal for families with kids aged 5 to tweens, Cooper Kits offer versatile activities that can be enjoyed by multiple children, making them a great value for family fun.
- 5 or more Fun and Educational projects in every Cooper Kit
- Box Engineering!
- Character Building and Life Skills
- Themed Family Friendly recipes
- Bedtime Storybook
- Amazing kit medallion. Kids collect & love them!
Note: You may or may not receive the specific boxes shown unless you are purchasing individual Cooper Kits.
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Individual Cooper Kits
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Live and Let Spy
Spy Skills & Secrets
Learn the logic, engineering, social, physical, and creative skills needed to become a SPY in the Live & Let Spy Cooper Kit! Packed with gadgets, DIY disguises, historical spy facts, books, STEM projects, and games, this Top Secret Cooper Kit will empower you with real SPY knowledge!
Spy Pen & Super Secrets File
What are your top secrets? Think it over, then safely store them on the computer chip inside this spy pen.
Disguises
Fool them all with mustaches, eyebrows… and maybe even a goatee!
Crack-The-Code Game
Use logic to create or break an ‘impossible’ 4-digit code.
Laser Obstacle Course
Using “high-tech” metallic ribbon, create a laser obstacle course! Bend, twist, and stretch as you crawl through—spy style!
Cipher Machine
Build a cipher to scramble and unscramble secret messages in this Cooper Kit’s box-engineering project!
Parabolic Microphone
With math, a wok lid and a lavalier mic, build and use a parabolic microphone to record sounds from far away!
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups
A super-wacky book filled with tongue-in-cheek top secrets.
Secrets & Private Information
Each Cooper Kit teaches a life lesson. Live & Let Spy explores what to do with a secret—keep it or tell it?
Spy Food
There’s something hidden, disguised, or not quite what it seems in all these recipes!
The Live & Let Spy Medallion
Get your collectible medallion! This one is Top Secret!
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How Things Fly
Aerodynamics & Resiliency
The How Things Fly Cooper Kit explores the laws of aerodynamics as you help Poppy, a stranded porcupine, get off a deserted island by learning how to fly. And like Poppy, you’ll learn about resiliency and how to fail well in order to succeed.
Pompom Porcupine Craft
Using a template and yarn, make pompom porcupines that will take flight on all your kit experiments.
Experiment with Parachutes
Make parachutes of different sizes and experiment with how weight and drag affect flight.
Color & Fly a Kite Kit
See the law of lift in action! Fly a kite that you constructed and decorated.
Porcupine Launchers
Make 2 pompom porcupine launchers and learn about the law of thrust.
Two DIY Airplanes
Build 2 rubber band-powered airplanes with airfoils to see weight, drag, thrust and lift work together.
Build a Powered Hovercraft
With this Cooper Kit’s box engineering project, you’ll convert the box into a hovercraft with a drone motor and electricity!
Transportation Failures
See how well-intended inventions went wrong and all the cool things we learned as a result.
What To Do When You Are Afraid
Easy-to-follow instructions with project timing, difficulty, Greek/Roman/Olympic facts, goal-setting charts, and videos.
Failure and Resilience
Each Cooper Kit has a theme related life lesson. Learn how failure is an important part of one’s growth.
Deserted Island Dining
Stranded on a deserted island and need kid friendly recipes? Look no further.
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Couch Potato Games
Life Lesson: Goal Setting & Determination
Couch Potato Games is the ultimate screen-time buster! Compete in the original ancient games declared by Emperor Spudicus. Perfect for active kids or those who need a little nudge to get moving. This Cooper Kit also teaches how to achieve goals using the SMART method and the power of determination.
*The scooter and the helmet in the image are a props and they are not included in the Cooper Kit.
Activity Lesson Guide and Digital Resources
Easy-to-follow instructions with project timing, difficulty, Greek/Roman/Olympic facts, goal-setting charts, and videos.
Hoplitodromos
Unearth this extinct Olympic race! Customize it with jumpsacks and create SPECIFIC goals.
Discus
Design MEASURABLE goals using a frisbee and movable targets for a backyard discus challenge.
‘Long’ Jump
Aka: jump for a long time! Use a color-changing, jump-counting rope to set ACHIEVABLE goals.
Chariot Race
Transform your bike/scooter/skateboard and helmet for a Roman chariot race. Learn what makes a goal RELEVANT.
Ancient Frozen T-Shirt Race?
Paint, freeze, and unfreeze a shirt! Practice setting TIMELY goals in this frosty time trial.
Wilma Rudolph Biography
Discover how a girl with polio overcame obstacles and became the fastest woman on Earth.
Determination
Every Cooper Kit teaches a life skill. This one explores the difference between motivation and determination.
Couch Potato Games Recipes
Enjoy potato-infused recipes fit for emperors and young athletes alike!
Couch Potato Games Medallion
Get your collectible medallion. This one takes the gold!
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Circus of Illusions
Life Lesson: Empathy
Welcome to the greatest show on Earth…your brain! With Circus of Illusions, learn to draw, build, and create mind-bending illusions that reveal how the brain works. Discover firsthand that what we see is more about perception than reality—all while exploring the powerful life skill of empathy!
How to Draw Illusions Kit
All the materials and easy instructions to create literal, cognitive, and physiological illusions.
Inverted Pyramid Illusion
Convert the Cooper Kit box into an amazing pyramid that seems to recede into the wall!
The Hollow Face Illusion
Fold an origami gargoyle that appears to come to life and follow you as you move!
Scanimation Illusions
Make moiré patterns and then see your brain animate scanimation drawings.
Empathy Slippers Craft
Make and decorate beautiful slippers with illusions or art that reflects your personality.
Perspective Detective
A clever storybook using illusions to teach perspective-taking and empathy.
Empathy
Each Cooper Kit teaches a life lesson. Circus of Illusions explores the power of empathy.
Illusion Recipes
Cook up tasty treats that delight the tastebuds and trick the brain!
The Circus of Illusions Medallion
Get your collectible medallion! This one is truly unbelievable!
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Live and Let Spy
Spy Skills & Secrets
Learn the logic, engineering, social, physical, and creative skills needed to become a SPY in the Live & Let Spy Cooper Kit! Packed with gadgets, DIY disguises, historical spy facts, books, STEM projects, and games, this Top Secret Cooper Kit will empower you with real SPY knowledge!
Spy Pen & Super Secrets File
What are your top secrets? Think it over, then safely store them on the computer chip inside this spy pen.
Disguises
Fool them all with mustaches, eyebrows… and maybe even a goatee!
Crack-The-Code Game
Use logic to create or break an ‘impossible’ 4-digit code.
Laser Obstacle Course
Using “high-tech” metallic ribbon, create a laser obstacle course! Bend, twist, and stretch as you crawl through—spy style!
Cipher Machine
Build a cipher to scramble and unscramble secret messages in this Cooper Kit’s box-engineering project!
Parabolic Microphone
With math, a wok lid and a lavalier mic, build and use a parabolic microphone to record sounds from far away!
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups
A super-wacky book filled with tongue-in-cheek top secrets.
Secrets & Private Information
Each Cooper Kit teaches a life lesson. Live & Let Spy explores what to do with a secret—keep it or tell it?
Spy Food
There’s something hidden, disguised, or not quite what it seems in all these recipes!
The Live & Let Spy Medallion
Get your collectible medallion! This one is Top Secret!
×
How Things Fly
Aerodynamics & Resiliency
The How Things Fly Cooper Kit explores the laws of aerodynamics as you help Poppy, a stranded porcupine, get off a deserted island by learning how to fly. And like Poppy, you’ll learn about resiliency and how to fail well in order to succeed.
Pompom Porcupine Craft
Using a template and yarn, make pompom porcupines that will take flight on all your kit experiments.
Experiment with Parachutes
Make parachutes of different sizes and experiment with how weight and drag affect flight.
Color & Fly a Kite Kit
See the law of lift in action! Fly a kite that you constructed and decorated.
Porcupine Launchers
Make 2 pompom porcupine launchers and learn about the law of thrust.
Two DIY Airplanes
Build 2 rubber band-powered airplanes with airfoils to see weight, drag, thrust and lift work together.
Build a Powered Hovercraft
With this Cooper Kit’s box engineering project, you’ll convert the box into a hovercraft with a drone motor and electricity!
Transportation Failures
See how well-intended inventions went wrong and all the cool things we learned as a result.
What To Do When You Are Afraid
Easy-to-follow instructions with project timing, difficulty, Greek/Roman/Olympic facts, goal-setting charts, and videos.
Failure and Resilience
Each Cooper Kit has a theme related life lesson. Learn how failure is an important part of one’s growth.
Deserted Island Dining
Stranded on a deserted island and need kid friendly recipes? Look no further.
×
Couch Potato Games
Life Lesson: Goal Setting & Determination
Couch Potato Games is the ultimate screen-time buster! Compete in the original ancient games declared by Emperor Spudicus. Perfect for active kids or those who need a little nudge to get moving. This Cooper Kit also teaches how to achieve goals using the SMART method and the power of determination.
*The scooter and the helmet in the image are a props and they are not included in the Cooper Kit.
Activity Lesson Guide and Digital Resources
Easy-to-follow instructions with project timing, difficulty, Greek/Roman/Olympic facts, goal-setting charts, and videos.
Hoplitodromos
Unearth this extinct Olympic race! Customize it with jumpsacks and create SPECIFIC goals.
Discus
Design MEASURABLE goals using a frisbee and movable targets for a backyard discus challenge.
‘Long’ Jump
Aka: jump for a long time! Use a color-changing, jump-counting rope to set ACHIEVABLE goals.
Chariot Race
Transform your bike/scooter/skateboard and helmet for a Roman chariot race. Learn what makes a goal RELEVANT.
Ancient Frozen T-Shirt Race?
Paint, freeze, and unfreeze a shirt! Practice setting TIMELY goals in this frosty time trial.
Wilma Rudolph Biography
Discover how a girl with polio overcame obstacles and became the fastest woman on Earth.
Determination
Every Cooper Kit teaches a life skill. This one explores the difference between motivation and determination.
Couch Potato Games Recipes
Enjoy potato-infused recipes fit for emperors and young athletes alike!
Couch Potato Games Medallion
Get your collectible medallion. This one takes the gold!
×
Circus of Illusions
Life Lesson: Empathy
Welcome to the greatest show on Earth…your brain! With Circus of Illusions, learn to draw, build, and create mind-bending illusions that reveal how the brain works. Discover firsthand that what we see is more about perception than reality—all while exploring the powerful life skill of empathy!
How to Draw Illusions Kit
All the materials and easy instructions to create literal, cognitive, and physiological illusions.
Inverted Pyramid Illusion
Convert the Cooper Kit box into an amazing pyramid that seems to recede into the wall!
The Hollow Face Illusion
Fold an origami gargoyle that appears to come to life and follow you as you move!
Scanimation Illusions
Make moiré patterns and then see your brain animate scanimation drawings.
Empathy Slippers Craft
Make and decorate beautiful slippers with illusions or art that reflects your personality.
Perspective Detective
A clever storybook using illusions to teach perspective-taking and empathy.
Empathy
Each Cooper Kit teaches a life lesson. Circus of Illusions explores the power of empathy.
Illusion Recipes
Cook up tasty treats that delight the tastebuds and trick the brain!
The Circus of Illusions Medallion
Get your collectible medallion! This one is truly unbelievable!
