Building toys expand a child’s world through imagination and creativity. The possibilities are endless on what your child can build and create. Building toys help to expand your child’s mind and opens their world up to creative play, deductive thinking and problem solving; all in a fun and exciting way.
Top 5 Building Toys You Never Heard Of
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Reptangles: Reptangles won the 2010 Parent’s Choice Award and for good reason. This building set is like no other ever seen before and encourages children to explore the word through geometry, design and construction. Fun and colorful turtles snap and slide together to create over 100 different turtle world creations of your child’s making. Each turtle snap set consists of 24 turtles and includes an activity book with fun building instructions and over 80 puzzles to help grow young minds. If you combine sets, you have more turtles with equals more building options. Fun, different and a learning tool; all in one. |
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Dado Cubes: When you combine art and science, you create an amazing world of creative play for your child. Some of the best toys that kids love are toys that require their imaginations to come in to play. Dado Cubes are just that toy and is only limited by their minds and creativity. The cubes interlock together to create an unlimited number of 3-D structures; vertical, horizontal or something in between. Children will engage in visual spatial development and problem solving as they strive to build an architectural masterpiece, all through their imaganation. |
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Automoblox: Classic, with a modern twist, the Automoblox is a combination of yesteryears wooden toys with today’s modern styling. Added in to the excitement, is that kids can mix and match styles to create their very own, one of a kind masterpiece. The possibilities are endless as each set can be combined with other Automoblox sets, allowing children the creative freedom they need to grow and learn. Building toys are by far one of the greatest gifts you can give a child; it opens their imaginative mind and fosters their growth and development, they are even better when they are high quality like this toy. The Automoblox is made of real wood and uses real rubber on the tires; ensuring quality with each spin. |
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Twig: Fat Brain Toys is constantly creating toys for kids that help them grow, develop and learn. Twig building blocks are no exception to this rule! Each set consists of 72 brightly colored “twig” blocks that combine together to create endless hours of fun construction. Unlike traditional building blocks, Twig allows kids to slide their ‘blocks’ inside each other, together, or next to each other to create their own construction design that expands their visual spatial development process. Set em’ up, knock em’ down, and do it all over again; Twig will keep a child coming back for more building fun over and over again. |
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Gears! Gears! Gears!: A car, a building, a caterpillar…. what is that thing? Gears! Gears! Gears! is what it is! Gears allows children to create anything they want with hundreds of construction possibilities. The set comes in a large plastic tub for easy storage and includes 150 pieces of gears, connectors and interlocking bases. The set also includes an activity guide to help children get their creative juices flowing. Build in 3D, build lateral, build up or build sideways; the creations possible are only as limited as your child’s imagination. |
Other Great Building Toys You Never Heard of
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Dado Planks: These aren’t your typical wood plank construction toys. Dado Planksare durable, plastic building planks that feature precise notches which can connect and interlock with the other pieces to build countless configurations! The 106 pieces are strong and interlock with amazing precision to create mind blowing and creative construction. An innovative twist on classic building toys that is loaded with educational benefits. Inspires logic, reasoning, fine motor skills & limitless imagination! This set is one of those building toys that a child will fall in love over and over again as they creatively build new and exciting constructions. |
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Hexactly: A simple design that fosters complex thought is what Hexactly is all about. The set includes 24 hexagons that lock together. Children stack, balance and build patterns. Up, down or sideways, the hexagon blocks stay with each other and the colorful masterpiece that your child creates can truly be called one of a kind. Children love to build their own creations and see what their minds can come up with. The Hexactly literally has thousands of possibilities for original creations and children will love the freedom that that gives their mind. |
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Quadrilla: Build your own maze of fun with Quadrilla. Quadrilla was designed for those who want to step outside of building blocks and add some elements of surprise to their design. Perfect for your budding builder, this set includes curved wooden tracks, a funnel and an assortment of blocks to aid in their design process. Considered one of the best toys for architectures in the making, Quadrilla is truly a one of a kind toy that provides hours of entertainment and plenty of learning experiences to go along with that. |
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Block Builders: Hinged blocks that teach…and are fun too? Welcome to toys of the 21st century! Block Builders contains six hinged blocks that open this way and that, along with 50 challenge cards. The idea is that kids recreate the 3D design on the challenge card, using only the number of blocks that it indicates. Each challenge card also features educational facts, terms, landmarks and other snippets from the architectural world. Designed for ages five and up, this is a great toy for parents and children to learn and use together. |
Building and creating inspires children to think outside of the box and use their imagination. Often times, these building toys are the stepping stones to grow in to who they become. Encourage creative play with construction toys that teach kids that the world around us is a fascinating and ever changing place.
