SBPL Library of Things

Virtual reality is an exciting way to explore and play. Explore space, play ping pong, meet lions, or ride a roller coaster. This kit includes hand held control and headset.

Further information can be found at:

Oculus Website

Use these robot blocks to learn "tactile coding" and "distributed coding". The black blocks are sensing blocks that control the clear action blocks. The red blocks are current blockers, green are neutral, and the grey blocks are the power. You can build all sorts of little robots with these cubes! Visit modrobotics.com to learn how to use Cubelets or find lesson plans.

Be sure to charge your power cube between uses! Have fun!

Check out a Moxi membership card to cover the admission of two adults (18+) and up to three children (17 and under) at the museum. Pass checks out for one week. Visit moxi.org to plan your trip.

Reserve a Moxi Pass

Check out a Santa Barbara Botanic Garden pass to cover the admission for two adults and any children under the age of 18 accompanying them. Pass checks out for one week. Plan your trip by visiting sbbg.org.

Reserve a Botanic Garden Pass

Check out a vehicle day-use California State Park Pass to visit 200+ state parks with family and friends. Visit www.CheckOutCAStateParks.com to learn more!

Reserve a California State Park Pass

Includes a Burton Cooktop and Cusinart pots and instructions for using the equipment.

Reserve an Induction Cooktop

Includes tools and tips to figure out how your home is wasting energy. Kit includes some items to keep and some items to return to the library when you are finished.

Reserve a Home Energy Savings Kit

Easy to use games and activities to promote memory recall during various stages of Alzheimer's and dementia.

Alzheimer's and dementia kit memory activity: Beginning Stages

Alzheimer's and dementia kit memory activity: Middle Stages

Alzheimer's and dementia kit: Memory Lane 1940's

Alzheimer's and dementia kit: Memory Lane 1950's

Alzheimer's and dementia kit memory activity: Caregiver's Kit

Alzheimer's and dementia kit memory activity: Late Stages

Alzheimer's and dementia kit: Memory Lane 1960's

Contains 1 storage case, 1 knitting gauge, 36 bamboo knitting needles, 12 aluminum crochet hook, 5 ergonomic crochet hooks, 20 stitch markers, 3 cable switch knitting needles, 4 needle point protectors, 2 row counters, 1 stitch holder, 5, yarn needles.

Reserve the Knitting & Crochet Kit

Hamano Suprano Ukulele

Mitchell MD100 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar : Right Handed

Fender Strat Squire Electric Guitar

Fender Starcaster Strat Electric Guitar

Greg Bennett D-1/WR Acoustic Guitar : Right Handed

First Act Adam Levine Acoustic Guitar : Right Handed

Ibanez Gio GSR200TR Bass Guitar

Ibanez Gio Soundgear Mikro Electric Bass Guitar

Ibanez Gio GSR200TR Bass Guitar

Ibanez Soundgear Electric Bass

Stargazing is an activity that the whole family can enjoy!

The Celestron AstroMaster 114EQ is a newtonian telescope that is both powerful and user-friendly. It features fully-coated glass optics, a sturdy and lightweight frame, two eyepieces, a StarPointer red dot finderscope and an adjustable tripod. Setup is quick and easy, with no tools required.

Create your own designs digitally and upload them to the Cricut machine to make amazing projects! You’ll need some of your own supplies, such as cardstock, leather, or sticker paper to create things like pop up cards, personalized stickers, T-shirt iron-ons, wood signs and more. Navigate to Cricut.com to learn more and get started with designs.

Cricut Design Space is free online for you to upload and create your designs. You'll need to download it and create a Cricut ID. You can also buy premade designs or find Friday freebies on Cricut Access.

This includes two sets of binoculars, one child size and one full size, as well as a book of North American birds. There are so many places to bird watch around Santa Barbara!

Includes microscope with light and multiple settings and a National Geographic slide pack of plant and animal tissues. Observe cells, practice your scientific method, and collect samples from your surroundings for inspection!

These learning tablets are preloaded with educational games. Launchpads have learning apps and videos grouped by age level and ready to play. These tablets do not connect to the internet for the safest tablet experience for young learners.

These kits are based on the Fountas and Pinnell leveled reading system, and can be used young readers to improve reading skills. There are fun activities and 5 books in each kit!

These kits are meant to be used by young children with their caregivers to stimulate learning through play. They are funded by the California State Library.

Each contains 5 books, literacy tips and activity cards, and a fun extra to encourage children to learn and grow. See what themes we have available by searching "early literacy kit" in our catalogue.

Kits:

Adventures in Space

Bear (bilingual)

Birds

Building

Can I Give You a Squish?

Chinese Language

Colors (bilingual available)

Construction

Cooking

Counting (bilingual available)

Daniel Finds a Poem

Dinosaurs

Doctor

Elephant and Piggie (bilingual)

Exploring

Fairytales/Nursery Rhymes

Family

Farm

Feelings (bilingual available)

Finders Keepers

Firefighters

French Language

Go Fly A Kite

Growth Mindset

Horses

Insects

It Began with the Lemonade

Kindness

Korean Language

Ladybug Girl