These quarter-flake pieces almost all K’Nex sets have look almost like palms or webbed feet. The way K’Nex creatures look both fantastic and recognizable is truly unique.
KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set – Four-Legged Duck
Category: KID K’NEX
K’Nex is a rod and connector building system invented by Joel Glickman. It was first introduced in America in 1992. K’Nex is designed and produced by K’Nex Industries Inc. of Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Kid K’NEX building sets are specifically designed for children aged 3-5. With larger, softer parts that are easy for small hands to manipulate and snap together, these sets provide a fun and engaging building experience. They feature colorful pieces in various shapes and sizes, like blocks, rods, and connectors, allowing children to create simple structures, animals, and more. Special pieces like colorful eyes, curly tails, and bendable joints add to the engaging fun.
These sets promote creativity, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. They are suitable for both individual and group play and can be used at home, in the classroom, or in after-school programs. Kid K’NEX sets introduce young children to building and construction in a safe and age-appropriate way.
This building toy promotes independent play, allowing children to create basic figures on their own and explore more complex structures with guidance. The set comes in a durable tub, perfect for family trips or easy storage at home. These preschool building toys encourage imagination, creativity, and the development of fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving abilities, cognitive functions, and spatial intelligence in young children.
Kid K’Nex Creations
Thing my daughter made from the Kid K’Nex set.
KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set – Tadpole
Here is another Budding Builders demonstration. With it additional pieces, you can assemble a creature with very few pieces and no paws at all. There are infinite ways to create some emotional, recognizable or fantastic creature from a K’Nex set. The only thing limiting thing is your fantasy.
K’Nex Robot
Huge and weird creatures made from K’Nex set.
KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set – Bicycle
Another Budding Builders creature. It is pretty basic, but it shows some building principles and the most important pieces of the set.
KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set – Human
Another Kid K’Nex Budding Builders critter. One of the reasons why K’Nex is so great is its basic “flake” pieces, which you can connect to the rods both by the side or by the centre. The connection will be different, of course, but you can assemble your pieces on almost any angle. So the same piece can be a paw or a part of the body.
Weirdos From The Suitcase
We too want to participate in filling out the BuildKitPedia! We recently purchased a suitcase of the KidK`nex children’s construction set. It contained 70 (!) parts and a colorful instruction poster with 50 possible models. My daughter really liked this set, and together with her we immediately made all sorts of weird creatures. Our six characters are crafts from this suitcase.
Gymnast Bird
A sporty K’Nex bird on a windowsill.
KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set
This is one of the bigger Kid K’Nex sets. It has 100 pieces – both typical K’Nex flakes and rods, as well as extra pieces like eyes, horns and ears. This is one of the many proposed creatures.
Samurai Moose
Or an alien? Another weird K’Nex creature posing against a wall.
