A sporty K’Nex bird on a windowsill.
Gymnast Bird
Tegu Bears
Made from Tegu blocks and decorated with Neocube balls.
Tegu Classroom Sets
These sets are much bigger than normal Tegu and have either 90, 130 or 240 pieces. They allow kids to build virtually anything and can entertain many children at once, so even schools and daycares may use them. Note that this piture has pieces from both Future and Tints sets.
EDTOY Da Vinci – Korean Magnetic Kit
Edtoy Da Vinci series. Pictures by Edtoy.
Jumbo Magz Panels
Details are translucent, large. They are easy to insert – even a 3-year-old child can get used to it.
Afomida Building Set
This is one of the countless Chinese clones of Zoob sets. Afomida building set has piece of the same shapes and size the original Zoob has, including the rotating wheels with rubber tires. The plastic of this set is somewhat cheap, but there are 125 pieces, and the set comes in a handy plastic box, so it can be a good travel option.
Back in 1997, inventor Michael Grey introduced Zoob, a toy inspired by the science of motion and organism development. Zoob represents an acronym for Zoology, Ontology, Ontogeny, and Botany. Each set has rod-like pieces with joint balls and sockets on their ends. Each of these balls has small bumps on its surface, so the joints can both move and stay in a certain position if you need them to.
This innovative toy features a ball and socket connection system, mimicking the natural movement and design found in people, animals, and machines. With just five basic shapes, Zoob offers 20 different ways to connect them together.
Zoob building sets have won awards because they’re different from regular building blocks. They use plastic pieces that snap together, like gears and joints, to build all kinds of objects, limited only by your imagination. After you build something with Zoob, you can actually play with it – the pieces were designed to move after being assembled, so you can have fun with the toys you create.
Zoobs are great for helping children improve their fine motor skills. The pieces are small enough to easily manipulate and put them together, but they’re not too tiny like some other toys, so it’s easier for kids who find small objects tricky.
EDTOY Da Vinci Magnetic Vegetation
Girl’s joy – magnetic flowers. Pieces of EDTOY Da Vinci.
Tent City
Tents from Jumbo Magz, the bonfire is also made of it. Travelers sleep peacefully in tents. But one does not sleep, though – he just returned from fishing.
The Sun, The Girl, And The Flower
First we got a travel version of this Fractiles mosaic – 96 pieces on a small black board (20×20 cm). The camping kit was bought for the eldest daughter. A little later, they bought an identical kit for the middle one – she was 3.5 years old back then. They took mosaics with them everywhere – 96 rhombuses of 3 colors saved them from boredom during long trips and trips to the doctor. When the younger daughters grew up, the eldest got another version with a large board. You can assemble mosaics on any other surface, but black boards are still more attractive and contrasting. We also use them are for other magnetic mosaics. The details are thin – 1mm, there are 3 sizes and 3 colors – rhombuses of red, yellow and blue colors.
Orange GEOMAG Classic Panels
Many Geomag sets with balls and rods also have special panels to fill the gaps between the rods. These panels make the final craft look more solid, adding surfaces to the empty construction. There are many Geomag sets with these panels of different shapes and colors. This classic panel set with 200 pieces is the biggest of its type. This set is orange and red, while smaller sets of this type, for some reason, come in green and blue. The set includes triangle, square and pentagon panels, along with balls and rods to build from.
