Naomi Meredith-The Elementary STEM Coach

Have you tried any of these?! 😅 I want to be good at them, but not every STEM project is my project.

I love trying new things, but I’m also ok with letting things go if it’s not a good fit.

The most magical 10 minutes trimmed to less than 2 minutes. 🥺🦋😍

My kids in this at-home daycare group (ages 2-4) learned all about different kinds of pollinators this past month: bees, butterflies & ladybugs. 🐝 🦋 🐞

To bring the science to life, we watched the life cycle of a butterfly using the kit.

So proud that all 5 survived! 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

If you’re in the Parker, Lone Tree or Centennial area this summer, try and stop by for a STEM session when my mobile STEM classroom trailer is out!

One lesson will be butterflies! 🦋

I need to print a big batch of animals so I’m prepared for the new year 😅

➡️ Comment with the word “prize” and I’ll send you the links to everything I used and the print files!

Here are some tips for when I created this:

✅ grab the print file of all the baby animals. It’s so much faster to have them all in one place.

✅ decide which baby animals you want for each color. I started making a Google Doc to keep track of mine. I did one solid color, but up to you if you want multiprint!

✅ test print a few animals before going all out to make sure they are the right size for the capsules

✅ for the actual machine, I also had to resize the original file so it would fit my printer. Make sure to save because you need everything to be proportional!

✅ use a bit of plastic glue (I linked my fav) to keep all the vending machine pieces together

✨ Tag me when you make yours! I want to see how they turn out!

I printed this machine and animals on my P1S and used for all the different colors.

💙 I used Overture’s white PLA for the baby animals and machine.

🐱Baby Animals STLs found on Etsy

🍬Capsule Machine Credit: burakeser07 on

🔮Plastic Capsules for animals by .store

🔗Materials Links:

Sorry your little bird isn’t good at keeping secrets 🐥 but my 3D Printing Workshop for teachers is on-demand and perfect for you to jump into this summer! ☀️

➡️ Comment with the word “3D” and I’ll send you the link!

In 2 hours, I’ll go over the systems, routines, tools & starter lessons for 3D printing that have worked (and still work) for me, with elementary students.

See you there!