The Boxitects Project Guide brings together children’s literature, hands-on STEM, engineering design, and cardboard construction in one creative learning experience. Created through a collaboration between 3DuxDesign, New York Times bestselling author Kim Smith, and the curriculum writers at Storytime STEM-Packs, this guide helps educators and families turn the picture book Boxitects into an engaging design-and-build challenge.

Inspired by Kim Smith’s story about creativity, collaboration, and cardboard architecture, students use the 3DuxDesign Architectural Modeling System to imagine, design, build, and improve their own structures and inventions. This project is a perfect fit for teachers, librarians, homeschool families, and enrichment programs looking for STEM activities that connect to books, read-aloud engineering lessons, or hands-on literacy and STEM projects for kids.

The guide supports early engineering skills, creativity, collaboration, communication, spatial reasoning, problem solving, and design thinking while helping students connect story elements to real-world building challenges.