A photo by the manufacturer. You can see the size of Kid K’Nex pieces and crafts.
KID K’NEX Oodles Of Pals Set – Size
Category: Plastic Building Kits
Plastic building kits are construction sets designed for children that primarily utilize plastic components. These kits consist of various interlocking pieces, connectors, panels, and accessories that allow children to build and create a wide range of structures, vehicles, and other imaginative designs.
Plastic building kits are known for their versatility, durability, and ease of use. The pieces are often designed to fit together securely, enabling children to construct stable and sturdy creations. These kits usually come with a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, allowing for endless possibilities and encouraging children to think creatively and problem-solve while constructing their designs.
Many plastic building kits also incorporate specialized parts such as wheels, hinges, and gears, adding an extra level of functionality and enabling children to create movable and interactive models. Some kits may even include motorized components that bring the creations to life with spinning gears or moving parts.
These kits are popular among children of various age groups and provide numerous educational benefits. They promote fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and logical thinking. Additionally, plastic building kits foster creativity, imagination, and cognitive development as children design and build their own unique structures and scenarios.
Overall, plastic building kits offer a stimulating and engaging way for children to explore construction, design, and engineering concepts while having fun and unleashing their creativity.
Kid Knex People
Kid Knex people consist of several parts, and you can combine them with Duplo blocks. The kids made these Pacific Islanders.
Clics Crane
A photo from our friends. This Clics crane was made by 11-years-old disabled and developmentally delayed boy. The doctors said that nothing good would come of it, but thanks to this construction kit, he can makes different figures throughout the day and has lots of fun.
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.
Waffle Building Blocks Plane
Another craft from Igrushkin kit.
Waffle blocks are very popular type of plastic building blocks. In these sets, each piece have pegs and square holes, and you can connect pieces in multiple ways to build both 2D and 3D crafts. The bricks connect to each other seamlessly, almost like in a jigsaw puzzle, so you can make endless combinations in any order you want. There are many brands of waffle building blocks, Gakken and Plus Plus are the most popular and well-known ones. This, however, is a craft from Igrushkin kit.
Blocks by different manufacturers may look different. In Plus Plus sets, for example, all blocks are exactly the same, the only difference is color. This old ex-USSR set, however, has pieces of differnet shapes, and some extras, like figurines or wheels. There are also a number of long, bar-like pieces that help connect waffle blocks together. You can stack many waffles on one bar, which helps to create thick and solid crafts.
The waffle blocks themselves are small, each side of a block has only one or two pegs. Some blocks has H-shape and no pegs at all on some sides. This is a downside, because you can’t connect anything on these sides. Sometimes, however, these pieces are very handy, because you can stuck them in small openings to support the craft around it. It all other regards, it is a typical waffle block building kit with small pieces.
Cerra The Technosaur And Its Robot
Another robot + mechanical dino set.
LET’S GO!
There are 4 sets in this series. Each set has a vehicle (astrojeep, astrojet, astrobike, astrobuggy) and a robot-like creature (Dogger, Volkan, Leonic, Brawlbull).
LOZ Hornet
The fly and this hornet has small pegs on them. If you pull these pegs, the models will flap their wing.
Playmobil Adventures of Ayuma Crystal Fairy with Unicorn – Contents
Everything this small, but cute set has to offer.
At The Gates Of The Underwater Kingdom
We used Kid Knex and Duplo parts in this one. The new Kid Knex men can attach to the Duplo 2×2 block, but not to the plate. If you try to do it, figurines’ toes interfere, because here the little men sit with their legs dangling.
Little Tikes Big Waffle Block Set
Waffle blocks like this Little Tikes big waffle block set are popular building toys. However, most waffle blocks are small toys. These are unusually big – big enough for small children to sin on crafts they build. They are flat and have matching pegs on their sides. You can assemble these pieces in 2D and 3D shapes, and in different positions.
Pieces of this set have an unusually big number of pegs on them – far more than pieces of Gakken and Plus Plus. The pieces have wall patterns, windows, round openings, and other similar decorations. Some panels have the same shape, but no decoration at all. The basic models the set offers are houses and castles. However, you can build anything else from these interlocking squares and triangles. These triangular pieces are in fact less common in waffle block sets. Gakken sets, for example, severely lack them. On the other hand, this set doesn’t have arches and other similar pieces, which somewhat limits the building possibilities. The houses are the things these waffle blocks make best, and, sadly, there are no options for, say, cars with moving wheels.
However, since the pieces are so big, you will have many unusual possibilities with this set, whic is more small kids furniture and playground than a common toy.
