ChompShop ChompSaw Maker Bundle with Curriculum | STEM Engineering Kit for Kids

Your kid has been building forts out of couch cushions, inventing "machines" out of tape and toilet paper rolls, and eyeing every cardboard box that comes through the door. They're ready for real tools.

The ChompShop ChompSaw Maker Bundle is a hands-on, screen-free maker kit that turns everyday cardboard into real builds — the kind kids can actually be proud of, not just look at for five minutes and forget. The ChompSaw is designed to help young makers cut cardboard more confidently and accurately: straight cuts, circles, angles, and folds that actually line up.The tool operates similarly to a high-speed hole punch, ensuring that it does not cut fingers or catch on hair.

What's Included

• ChompSaw cardboard cutting tool (includes 100–120V AC power supply stored under the lid)
• Hole Punch — for different hole sizes and interior cuts
• Scoring Tool — for clean folds and working with thicker cardboard
• Attachable Fence — for straight cuts between ¼" and 3½"
• Circle Guide — smooth circles measured in inches and centimeters
• Angle Guide — precise angled cuts in 15-degree increments
• Inventor's Workbook — structured STEM/STEAM curriculum with engineering principles, design challenges, and project documentation pages

Curriculum Included: The Inventor's Workbook

This bundle includes the ChompShop Inventor's Workbook — a comprehensive, standalone curriculum guide developed for STEM and STEAM learning environments, and specifically recommended for curriculum development by educators and homeschool families.

The Inventor's Workbook serves as the structured academic curriculum for this bundle, guiding children through the same design thinking process used by professional engineers and product designers. Curriculum content includes:

• Engineering sketching instruction — how to draft and diagram like an engineer
• Structural design lessons — forming cardboard connections (tabs, slots, joints, and more)
• Spatial reasoning projects — sequential starter builds that develop 3D thinking
• Design thinking prompts — open-ended challenges covering empathy, ideation, prototyping, and iteration
• Engineering drawing pages — dedicated workspace for students to plan and document their designs

It functions as a complete, repeatable STEM curriculum resource and can be used across multiple projects and school years.

Why This Kit Works

Most kids who love making hit a wall when the cardboard won't cut straight, the tabs don't line up, and the whole thing collapses before it's done. The ChompSaw solves that. It gives young makers the control and precision they need to actually finish what they start — which means more confidence, more ambition, and more builds that make it to the "look what I made" moment.

The Inventor's Workbook takes it further. Instead of following a single set of instructions, kids work through design thinking challenges that teach them how to plan, prototype, test, and improve. It's the same process engineers and product designers use — just with a recycling bin as the supply closet.

How to Use It

Start with the Inventor's Workbook challenges to learn the tool and build confidence, then let kids loose on their own projects. Because the material is cardboard, the supply is essentially free and endlessly renewable — no buying a new kit every week, no running out of pieces. Every Amazon box, cereal box, and shipping tube is raw material.

Works great for:

• Homeschool STEM & maker days — a full engineering design session with zero prep beyond finding cardboard
• Engineering clubs & co-ops — kids can work on individual or collaborative builds
• Open-ended invention time — no instructions, no kit, just a prompt and a pile of cardboard
• Design thinking projects — plan, build, test, improve, repeat
• Gift for the kid who has everything — because what they actually want is to build something real

Who Is This For?

Designed for kids ages 3+ who learn best by doing — builders, inventors, tinkerers, and kids who have outgrown craft kits and are ready for something with more creative range. Ideal for homeschool families running STEM or maker programs, and for any kid whose best ideas involve cardboard, tape, and a lot of "what if we tried this?"

Curriculum Connections

• STEM & NGSS — engineering design process: define, plan, build, test, improve
• Design thinking — empathy, ideation, prototyping, and iteration
• Math — measurement, geometry, spatial reasoning, and scale
• CCSS ELA — technical writing, planning documentation, and presentation of designs