A pretty flower, made from Magtastik building kit.
Giant Flower
Author: TatianaZh
She-Hedgehog
Alesya tried herself as a car designer. This is another version of a rebuilt car, but with the addition of parts from other Knex kits.
Tegu Spring
We don’t have such a beautiful set (The Explorer Set – Tegu Tints) in bright joyful colors, but the spring made from Tegu turned out to be very cheerful and life-affirming… The photo is from the Tegu website, and there are many more interesting ideas.
Magnetic Stick N Stack – Wheels Mounting
Inconvenient mounting. We have already got used to wheel pairs in magnetic construction sets, where the wheels are permanently fixed on a magnetic piece, which is much better for construction. This way mounting wheels is for older children,. Meanwhile, with wheeled rods or bases, even a 2-year-old child can build simple cars or locomotives on their own.
Wheels are also can used as a design element in crafts along with the eyes, headlights, motors, etc. Putting the wheels on the rods/axles may be tough. The wheels are made of silver plastic.
Dervish Castles
If you gently turn the upper part of the left castle (the part ending with the green circles), the lower part will turn slightly as well. And so the association was born.
Totoro’s Magic Forest
A successful combination of Knex and Lego Duplo construction sets. We placed Knex bricks on the Duplo plate. This really revitalized Duplo crafts, and crafts from Knex became more stable.
Chicco Big Farm
You can use cubes to build simple little houses and towers, act out funny and serious stories, arrange the cubes into a train and carry them around the house (in this case, a train of animals in a meadow). Multifunctional cubes and a pleasant toy for toddlers.
Chicco is a well-known and popular brand of all things for infants and toddlers. Chicco mostly makes strollers and other similar items, but there are also Chicco toys, like these building cubes. They are big, and colorful, have simple pictures on their sides, and are easy to grab and connect. The set also has wheels and animal heads. Obviously, the cubes are way too big to swallow accidentally, so they are safe and easy enough for kids who are older than 9 months. The cubes have magnets in them, but they are under the plastic surface. The cubes themselves are sturdy enough to prevent the magnets from falling out, so it’s not a safety concern.
This set looks very simple, but it is a good toy for smaller children, with many connecting possibilities and ways to play. You can build vehicles, animals, and houses, and use cubes as both 3D shapes and simple pictures. It’s a good way to enhance a toddler’s imagination and a safe way to occupy the child for a long. It’s a shame that these sets are not that common, even while the idea is pretty obvious.
Clics Ships
A great thing about the big Clics blocks kit are that you can build big and sturdy things from them.
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 any Clics blocks kit, 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.
Oh, My Owl!
I helped Alesya only with the wings, the idea of building an owl and the execution was hers. The owl, however, could not bear her enthusiastic hugs and broke down …
Let’s Add Some Triangles…
The assembling of the giant owl sculpture.
