A huge box behind which 7-year-old Alesya is hiding is a set of Genii Creation Playground. Hidden inside are 173 pieces and 3 colorful boxes that you can use on their own. A wonderful set that we have been dreaming about for a long time, and finally got it. It is good on its own and with other Genii Creation sets, it also complements Tegu well.
Tablet in the form of a book 30×30 cm, 42 bright wooden parts, 24 sample cards. Simple mosaic for kids. Recommended for 4 years old and older.
The set consists of only 13 pieces made of Japanese cedar, specifically cylinders and semicylinders. The diameter of the pieces is 4 cm, and their heights range from 4 to 12 cm. It isn’t available on Amazon now, but many high-quality wooden magnetic toys are.
There are many version of a Clics theatre models on this site, but we built yet another one.
ClicsToys is a Belgian company that was established in 2001. It makes the well-known Clics building blocks in its own factory in Kempen. Clics building sets have square pieces of identical form and shape. They easily connect at their edges, creating joints you can move.
With These plastic squares, you can create surfaces and fold them into 3D shapes. There are endless possibilities, even though Clics have very few extra pieces and accessories. Some sets have wheels and decorative panels, but this is pretty much it. On the other hand, Clics sets usually have many pieces, so you can create something truly complicated from just one set.
Since the basic pieces of Clics are squares, all the basic forms you can assemble from it are cubic or brick-like. However, thanks to the movable joints, you can assemble them at different angles, creating different shapes.
There are ways to create triangular or sloping figures if you assemble the pieces just right. The cubes, however, are the most sturdy and reliable structures this set can offer. There are also a possibility of creating a flat mosaic, combining the pieces of different colors.
The Logmag construction set by Moritoy consists of only 13 pieces – cylinders and semicylinders made of Japanese cedar. The pieces are neatly packed in a box designed like a book.
The huge box hides smaller colorful boxes, each containing a small number of pieces. The boxes from the Genii Creation Transportation set have been serving us faithfully for a couple of years. I moved various puzzles and small building sets there. We did the same with the boxes from the Playground set. The huge box itself is unsuitable for storage, the building kit pieces fill up only a small part of it. So all Genii Creation sets was moved into a spacious plastic box.
A cube of snow and ice is a fortress. Inside is a throne for the king of the Ice World. The king is a recluse, lonely, spends his life thinking about good and evil. Made from Gakken waffle pieces.
Unlike Plus Plus waffle blocks, Gakken blocks have pieces of many different shapes. They have round and curved pieces, long beams and H-like pieces. The empty spaces inside the blocks also can have different sizes and shapes, so you can stack inside different pieces in different positions. All this allows even more building possibilities than the waffle blocks sets with similar pieces. However, some pieces have less connection opgtions, because they don’t have pegs on the sides, or have only one hole.
Gakken brand appeared in Tokyo back in 1946 when it became an important component of Japan’s post-war efforts to rebuild the nation. Back then, it became incredible important to properly raise a new generation that will be able to create a better future.
The founder and educator, Hideto Furuoka, created first Gakken waffle pieces. He later told that his inspiration was traditional Japanese wooden houses. There he saw an idea of flat blocks people can took apart and rebuild again when they need to. So he decided to create a toy which repeats this principle. Children can connect these Japanese waffle building blocks, stack them, lay them, plug, or tuck blocks in different orientations, for example, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
A retro-styled K’Nex phone. Children absolutely love making things like that.
The Japanese camel. A toy made from Logmag magnetic construction set.
Logmag magnetic construction set by Moritoy company.
