K’NEX

K'NEX Sets at Amazon.com

K’NEX represents the essence of the creative toy concept, a masterful system of components and attachments that allow creative children to explore mechanisms while putting together pretty much anything. Limitless ingenuity!

If you want to combine fun and education for children’s activities with toys, then K’NEX building kits offer great choices.

These toy construction sets provide all the instructions that are required to build up: vehicles, machines, toy roller coasters, ferries wheels and more!

The components of these toys are made with good quality materials, the pieces are complex, yet intuitive, so children can start playing-building with no prior experience.

Although the rods (of various lengths) and connectors (of several different types) are the main components, these are not the only parts, other components to build fascinating mechanism and toy machines are:

  • spacers
  • gears
  • panels
  • tan locks
  • hinges
  • motors
  • tracks
  • pulleys
  • tires
  • wheels

KNEX also has people mini-figures similar to the Lego brand characters.

These play sets are ideal for the overall development of your child, creativity and imagination are stimulated constantly. In addition, curiosity and appreciation for mechanical principles, design and technology, are developed naturally. Kids get to process basic concepts of physics and mathematics spontaneously, and with fun.

K’NEX is and outstanding creative toy for children Ages 3+ to adults. Always check the recommended age group of each individual set, and match it with preferences, skills and requirement of your child.

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No Ends

No Ends by Taurus Toys

No Ends creative toys by Taurus Toys are truly some of the best toys on the market today. No Ends offer the perfect materials and tools for kids to transform ideas into forms, structures and objects.

The toy construction sets combine beams and 6-sided connectors that link easily. The sets contain curved and straight beams with connectors in 4 bright colors.

Children can spend hours coming up with magnificent designs, from houses to vehicles to robots.

A No Ends set is a great open-ended toy that encourages creative play and develops structural concepts consistently, it’s never boring.

Age 3+

No Ends 150 Piece construction kit includes: 50 cubes, 50 straight beams, 50 curved beams.

No Ends 360 Piece kit includes: 120 cubes, 50 straight beams, 50 curved beams, 70 hinged beams, 70 short beams.

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Haba

Haba specializes in building blocks toys of outstanding quality and beautiful design. This German toy manufacturer uses wood from European woods obtained with sustainable forestry practices. Their toys are painted with water based, solvent-free products, safe for kids and safe for the environment.

Among other great qualities, a particular attribute that I personally appreciate is the concept of world and cultural exploration. Not only does Haba provides great creative toys that promote motor skills development and spatial relationships recognition, these kids educational toys also focused on people and places.

Haba toys represent excellence in regards to educational wooden toys. Definitely, every house with  inventive children should have their toy construction sets. Here are some excellent choices I recommend:

Building Blocks Sevilla Age 1+

This toy building set features 25 pieces made of beech wood including: rattle, bell, mirror, magnifier, peephole, and prism.

Basic Building Blocks Extra-Large Starter Set Age 1+

This toy building set features 102 blocks toys made of beech wood including: domes, rectangles, squares, arches and more!

Haba Ball Track Roll ‘n Roll ‘n Roll Age 18 Months+

This beginner ball track is a sensory stimulator for curious toddlers, they play with goblins and hear the balls roll down the chatter track ringing bells on their way down. The set includes two single color balls and two balls of two other colors, making four balls total. No assembly required.

Haba sticky bricks (sticky building blocks) 13 Piece Age 1+

This toy building set features colorful blocks toys that attach with a system of round pegs and holes to secure hold. The set is made out of solid beech wood.

Haba Ball Track Construction Set Age 3+

This toy construction set features 42 pieces of beech wood, 6 glass marbles and a bell. This wooden marble run is an outstanding creative toy with many possibilities for ingenious children!

Haba products bring the best out of creative children. Encourage inventiveness, choose presents and gifts from Haba, they are great!

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Rainbow Crystal Cubes

Rainbow Crystal Pattern Cubes

This creative toy set of colorful translucent blocks is perfect for building structures that incorporate light into the building play activities of creative children.

There are two toy kits of Rainbow Crystal Cubes to choose from: a 12 pieces kit and a 16 piece kit. Both sets feature a combination of green, yellow, magenta and blue translucent building blocks toys, in groups of 3 or 4 accordingly.

Kids can use these cubes to stack them and make three-dimensional compositions enhanced by light, a new dimension of creativity to play and learn from.

The Rainbow Crystal Cubes are excellent multisensory creative toys when used in a Light Table Center or other illuminated surfaces. Also, you can expand your children imagination combining them with other translucent educational learning toys such as the crystal bricks, the crystal connectors, or the crystal towers.

Each cube is about 2 x 2 x 2 inches. The toy building set includes instruction cards, guide book, and comes packed in a plastic tray with a clear top. It makes a very nice present for any occasion!

Ages 3+

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Green Toys Block Set

Block Set by Green Toys is the winner of the ASTRA Best Toys for Kids 20101 award in the Early Play category.

These baby learning toys are the perfect introduction to blocks toys for very young kids, but the best part is the environmental friendly philosophy behind them.

The babies’ toy construction set includes 18 light-weight, colorful and big blocks made out of 100% recycled plastic from milk containers. It contains no BPA, phthalates or PVC.

Babies can stack them and  take them apart easily, but this green creative toy set is also very entertaining for older kids, allowing their imagination and inventiveness to take form in different shapes and structures.

Set includes: 8 single blocks, 4 half blocks, 2 double blocks, 2 double bridges, and 2 triangle blocks.

Age 6 Months +

Find the Green Toys My First Blocks at Amazon.com

1. The award winning toys selected by The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA), are chosen because they are considered to be engaging, unique, open-ended, fun and safe. For more information visit Astra’s official website at www.astratoy.org.



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Twist ‘n’ Build Tubes

Twist ‘n’ Build Tubes

Twist 'n' Build Tubes - 180 Pieces

Kids love building and playing with toy construction sets; the Twist ‘n’ Build Tubes kit will allow them to experiment and create shapes and structures with colorful twisting tubes, wheels and bars.

Kids can engage in activities putting together animals, vehicles, gadgets and more! This creative toy really encourages ingenuity and inventive play!

This set is a developmental toy that enhances gross and fine motor skills, enhances eye-hand coordination and allows children to learn cause and effect.

Such a nicely designed child educational toy focuses on spatial relationships and develops problem-solving skills. The Twist ‘n’ Build Tubes targets curriculum for cognitive development and early math.

The components easily join for endless creative possibilities. The 180 plastic pieces include: 150 tubes, 12 wheels and 18 bars, the largest tube is 2 1/4″L, the wheel is 2″Dia. The set includes a storage bin.

Age 3+

Find the Twist ‘n’ Build Tubes – 180 Pieces at Discount School Supply.

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Crystal Connectors

Crystal Connectors

The crystal connectors are fun building toys for inventive kids. 300 interlocking translucent circles for unlimited creativity to be released! Each unit has eight slots to allow multiple connections for building amazing structures that capture the light and blend the colors. There are two different disc sizes for more construction possibilities: 1½” diameter and 2½” diameter discs.

This creative toy is perfect to be used in the Light Table Center to make the most out of its illuminated surface, merging inventive figures, light and color.

Age 3+

Find the Crystal Connectors at CPToy.com

You can also find the Giant Crystal Connectors.

This toy kit of fifty larger 4″ diameter slotted discs offers children similar adventures as the traditional Crystal Connectors for a colorful, full of light, 3D toy building experience. The Crystal Connectors line is an excellent alternative for children and families who enjoy toy construction sets. Age 3+

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Alphabet Nesting and Stacking Blocks

Stacking blocks are entertaining skill builders for young children. By playing with these blocks toys, kids learn relationships of volume and space. In addition they engage in activities in which reasoning and logic are developed naturally. They also get to interact with letters of the alphabet, animals and others familiar objects. The Alphabet Nesting and Stacking Blocks are simple yet effective toddler learning toys as well as early learning toys in general.

Artistic illustrations of animals and letters of the alphabet decorate these cardboard blocks. Nested, the whole collection of toy blocks (10 total) fit into a colorful space saving carrying case.

Stacked, they form a tower nearly three feet high, but this creative toy offers more possibilities for children to explore their ingenuity capabilities, both for constructing structures as well as destroying them (a favorite activity of two-year olds). These stacking blocks are fun and laughs are guaranteed!

Dimensions: 5.75″ x 5.75″ x 5.75″

Age 2+

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Crystal Bricks

Watch the wonders of color and light combine to make beautiful creations in this fabulous creative construction toy.

These translucent building blocks toys made out of plastic are both attractive and interesting. Kids will be amazed as the light radiates through their creations generating new visual effects to captivate them.

The innovative Crystal Bricks Sets are not only fascinating, but they are Duplo® (those Legos for little ones) compatible so you can expand the creative possibilities with toys.

Allow your children to enjoy the new dimension of light in their play when they do building activities with their own Crystal Bricks Set.

Crystal Bricks Sets

Age 18 Months +

Find the Crystal Bricks Sets at Constructive Playthings.

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Foam Building Blocks

These versatile foam blocks and triangles will inspire and grow with your child from toddlerhood to school days.

The family favorite includes a set of 80 kid-safe foam blocks in bright colors.

These blocks are soft and flexible, well designed for little hands and perfect to develop motor skills.

Foam Building Blocks

Playtime is fun and educational as your youngster uses the soft blocks to build, climb, hide, play peek-a-boo, and more!

Age 1+

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