Friday Late-Nights | Open until 8:00 PM | thru May
Friday Late-Nights | Open until 8:00 PM | thru May
Give The Gift Of Play! (with learning built in)
Keep the fun and learning going after your visit to DuPage Children’s Museum. We can help refresh your toy box with fun, educational options.
Small but mighty, DCM’s store has a wide assortment of unique, creative, and playful items available for sale in the Museum’s Explorer Store. Visitors and members love our collection of toys, books, puzzles, and small gift items. Our prices range from $1.95 on up. Take a look at a few featured items below!
DCM Members receive 10% off!
As a nonprofit organization, every purchase from the Museum’s Explorer Store helps to Keep The Play Growing at DCM by helping to support our mission to nurture joyful discovery and learning.
Squigz are fun little suckers! Connecting to each other and to any solid, non-porous surface – Squigz flex, stick, and suck people into creativity.
Squigz are designed to promote creativity, motor skills, and problem-solving through engaging play. They are a family-favorite in DCM’s Creativity Connections. Bring them home and extend your play – they’re fun during bath time too!
Set of 25: $24.99 or Set of 50: $49.99
(DCM members get 10% off)
Build, Design, and POP with Plips! From the creators of Squigz, this collection of silicone arches, sticks, and Xs connect via ball-and-socket ends to build an endless variety of fun structures.
We love these at DCM because of the open-ended play encouraging exploration, creativity, and problem solving. The connections hold together strong, making the most satisfying “POP” when they’re pulled apart.
Set of 46: $31.99
(DCM members get 10% off)
BathBlocks bring classic building block play into a fun, fascinating, watery environment – the bathtub!
With a variety of options to choose from, BathBlocks empower kids to create their vision and build STEM skills as they experiment with geometry, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, balance, structure, and cause-effect – all while having a blast in the bath.
Sometimes the most educational toys are the simplest toys!
BathBlocks: $15.99–$24.99
(DCM members get 10% off)
Learn about force, momentum, launch angles, and more with a wide variety of fun activities with Stomp Rocket®.
Stomp Rocket® Stunt Planes do amazing tricks as they flip, turn, and soar. Dueling Stomp Racers™, let you race your friends to the finish.
Stunt Planes or Racers: $19.99
(DCM members get 10% off)
Magna-Tiles® encourage hands-on learning through creative building, helping kids develop skills in spatial reasoning, math, and problem-solving.
Suitable for a wide range of ages, Magna-Tiles® offer endless possibilities for building and exploration, making them both fun and educational.
Magna-Tile Set: $21.99–$54.99
(DCM members get 10% off)
We have notebooks, water bottles, Creativity is Messy t-shirts/onesies, and cool color changing cups!
Show your support for DCM by showing off our branded items and help spread awareness 🙂
DCM’s Explorer Store items are only available for in-person purchase.
Admission to the Museum is not required to shop in the Explorer Store.