Summer is here and I have been looking for creative ways to keep my boys busy. I will fully admit that blocks are the bane of my existence. They rarely come in a package that is perfect for storage and often end up in every crevice of my house. That aside, they are the best thing for a rainy day and actually bring my pair together to create projects without fighting.
Over the years we have been gifted many building sets for birthdays and holidays. It used to drive me crazy that they didn’t all go together, but now I am thankful for the variety. Each set, unique in its construction, teaches my kids a new way to create.
Learning to stack and build helps advance mental and physical development. It improves shape recognition, hand-eye co-ordination, and boosts creativity for little ones of all ages.
We have rounded up 48 ways to build.
- Plus-Plus Blocks
- Nanoblock
- K’nex
- Cra-Z-Art Lite Brix Building System
- Lego
- LEGO DUPLO
- Mega Bloks
- Citiblocs
- Kre-O
- Dado Planks
- Twig Blocks
- mokulock
- Plan Toys Construction Set
- Water Blocks
- Lincoln Logs
- Tegu
- Pyramid
- Haba Little Amsterdam
- Plan Toys Chunky Wooden Blocks
- Haba Fit Together Building Blocks
- Ball Track Construction Set
- Haba Building Blocks Sevilla
- GoodWood Deconstruction Blocks
- Kaleidoscopic Blocks
- Techno Gears Marble Mania
- Structures 200 Plank Set
- Zoob building Set
- Natural Wood Building Blocks
- Wonder world Safari Tower
- The Quadrilla Cyclone
- Tree Haus Construction Set
- Texo Building System
- Tinkertoy
- Kubix, 50 Geometrix Cubes
- Foam Wooden Blocks
- Plan Toys Tower of Tumbling
- Kid K’NEX
- Lauri Toys Locktagons
- Guidecraft Powerclix set
- Guidecraft Magnetos
- B. Stackadoos
- Fisher-Price TRIO Building Set
- Tall Stacker Pegs Building Set
- Fisher-Price Little People Builders Set
- Magna-tiles
- MindWare Q-Ba-Maze Big Box
- Edushape Ez-Grip Tiny Stars
- Quercetti Tubation
How many of these sets do you have in your house? I counted 10 in our house.
