Kids Construction Toys

As a young child, I absolutely loved to play with kids construction toys.  As funny as it sounds, they were just the most important thing to me when I was a preschooler.  I was not concerned with movies or even playing outside with my friends.  You see, for me, kids construction toys like Lego or blocks meant that I could build things that were in my imagination and that was the best part of all.  Kids construction toys will never go out of style, and now I can provide the same sort of toys for my own kids, which is great.

When you begin to shop for kids construction toys you will want to look for some of the top names in the business such as Lego or Duplo.  Lego has recently begun to reinvent itself with multiple adaptations of famous movies including Star Wars and Indiana Jones.  This combination of powerful pop culture icons has essentially brought Lego back from the dead and made it a great deal of fun for some of the older children to get involved with — construction toys!  The Lego Star Wars phenomenon has gone so far as to spawn video games and rides at Legoland.  Who said kids construction toys were confined to your room?

Of course, the more basic kids construction toys could include train set toys and building blocks, which provide such a wide variety of play for many.  Simple blocks improve gross and fine motor skills as well as incrreasing the capacity to problem solve.  In fact, I recommend kids construction toys as some of the best toddler toys you can invest in early on.  If you invest in a good set of blocks you undoubtedly will get your money’s worth because they will be played with again and again.

Another group in the variety of kids construction toys is based on connectable types of products that are different from the old school norm.  Essentially, these are creative toys that allow children to construct things using bendable materials.  These can be manipulatives as well as play-doh and moon sand.  They may not come to mind immediately in the same category as Legos, but I like to think of these as kids construction toys because at the end of the day they are building things with them and lend themselves to teaching the same ideas.

I would recommend that parents acquire a good solid core selection of kids construction toys so that they are able to really help stimulate their children’s ideas and creativity.  You don’t have to stick with the standard accepted ideas for them.  Think outside the box with your kids construction toys — they will thank you in the long run!

 

 

There’s so much to do at the LEGO® City Airport! Enter the terminal through the revolving doors, check in at the ticket desk, go through the security checkpoint with X-ray machine, and relax in the café and lounge while you wait for the call to board your flight. Once the go-ahead comes through from the Control Tower, you’re all cleared for take-off, and it’s off on another adventure! Includes jet plane, flight terminal, control tower, baggage cart, passengers, crew and more! Includes 5 minifigures: passenger, pilot, flight attendant, steward and service man Includes airplane, terminal, control tower, baggage cart, crew, passengers Open the revolving doors on the terminal! Terminal measures over 10" (25cm) long and over 10" (25cm) tall Airplane measures over 20" (50cm) long and over 7" (17cm) tall.

Check out our Lego page here.

 

 

Wood Construction Site

Our exclusive three level Wooden Construction Site stands a towering 24" tall and comes complete with husky wood girders, 12 assorted blocks, decals, and laminated wood ramp. Load up the working crane and hoist supplies up to the top! The set provides youngsters with open-ended play while simulating a real construction site. Build their imaginations! (Tonka trucks not included.) Manufacturer requires 2-5 business days to process all orders.

 

We have more great wooden construction sets at our Back to Basics page.

 

Lincoln Logs Bicentennial Edition

Special price on our Lincoln Logs Bicentennial edition! These simple all wood Lincoln Logs are as popular today as they were in the past. Each of these redwood stained Lincoln Logs has a flat top and notched edge so they stack and interlock just like real frontier cut timber. These Lincoln Logs are more authentic than ever with every piece in wood including the red chimneys, eaves, green roof boards and floor planks. Packed the way they used to come – in a big tin storage container.Ages 3 and up.By K’NEX

 

More Lincoln Logs and lots of great toys from Kazoo Toys here.