Great educational toy! (Rating: 0.00)
Review : I recently bought these blocks for my son's 3rd birthday. He is also into Legos so I thought that he would like this for building 'castles' and bigger houses. He loves it! I like it because he is learning about a wider variety of shapes than just the typical square, triangle, etc. He is learning about semi-circles, cylinders et al. The thing that I like best about this set is that the cleanup is just as important as the building. There is a definite sense of order that a child will naturally learn by putting this set away. All of the blocks are arranged into 5 boxes by type of shape, and then there is a drawing on the bottom of each box that tells the child where each piece is supposed to go. I told my son to "match the picture" and after just a few days, he insists on putting away the pieces by himself. Right now, I help him by putting half of the pieces into the box and he can then see how the rest of them fit in. I don't think that it will take very long before he gets it all right by himself. He also picks up each full box and stacks it onto the wagon. He then pulls on the handle to put it away in is place. I just wish the string were longer so that he didn't have to bend over to pull this (and he's little!), but I guess the company made it short for safety reasons. Overall, this is a great toy and worth the money.
Oustanding toy... (Rating: 0.00)
Review : My daughter is 5 and is nuts about blocks. Loves them at school, etc. and while I love to buy her the moon I was hesitant into sinking several hundred dollars into blocks since she is already 5 years old. I came across this set and it is terrfic. the shapes of the blocks are outlined in the storage containers so putting the blocks back is a lot of fun too, kind of like a puzzle! I really liked that it has wheels and can be moved so effortlessly to the kitchen floor, etc. I plan on adding the Melissa/Doug set to THIS set as well just to give extra blocks for play...PERSONALLY I think 100 blocks is necessary b/c she does seem to run out with the 68 piece set so I think adding the box of Melissa/Doug will give her some additional playing pieces... I really like this et and think it is well worth the money.
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