Magnetic building kits utilize magnets as connectors, enabling children to create stable and flexible designs. These kits often include magnetic rods and balls or magnetic tiles that easily snap together, providing an engaging building experience.
We have this old construction set. It was released in the USA in the 80s by the Hilco corporation. It is designed for very young children. The parts are made of plastic with colorful metal inserts and a magnet on one side. There aren’t many of them, but it’s sufficient for the experiments of a 2-3-year-old child. You can build a little car, and it will move, or a pyramid, and something else suitable for toddlers. – Tatiana Zheglova.
Wheel mount in the Japanese building set Magnet Block from Toyroyal. The wheels are attached to any straight piece of the set, they hold well and spin perfectly. They are the biggest plus of this set.
Unusual shapes for a building kit, dark and light wood tones, strong magnets. The manufacturer recommends to use this wooden set with others seys from the Magnetic Teaching Tool series – Architecture, Animals, Castle, Picasso’s cubes.
These sets are, understandibly, very popular in Korea.
The magnetic construction set is one of the favorites. We build pyramids, towers, and castles, but recently the kids have enjoyed making panoramas. Arishka (2.3 years old) made the town with my little hints. She really loves the magnetic construction set and has been playing with a large magnetic construction set with 5 cm diameter balls for over a year. Now she has moved on to a smaller one. It’s challenging but interesting – you can’t make her stop.
These Tegu toys are for smaller children, so they have only few big, simple pieces. There are cars of different shapes and colors, and you can connect them with magnets, making a train.
A storage box of a smaller Geomag Pro-L set. Some big sets are sold in cardboard boxes, but also have similar cases for storage.
This set has “pattern cards” with some mosaic pictures the manufacturer offers you to try and repeat. This is just a way to introduce kids to the mosaic – the set has only 6 two-sided cards.
Fish from the designer Genii Creation, caught with toy fishing rods. Fishing kept my younger daughters busy all evening, especially inventing interesting fish. They also used other magnetic constructors in this process.
Multi-colored wooden cubes with built-in magnets. The set contains 16 cubes with a side of 1,5 in. Manufacturer proposes to build patterns and use them in construction along with other wooden EDTOY pieces – for example, a large wooden EDTOY set.
