This picture, provided by the manufacturer, shows the basics of Geomag Kor construction. Plastic blocks have magnets in their narrower ends, and you may see light dashes where magnets was sealed in the plastic. Blocks attach to a single metal ball from all sides. forming the hape of your creature. You may switch the blocks and add extra pieces into sockets omn the surface to decorate your craft.
I suggested that the girls connect the stars together, not in a web, but in pairs. These archs were the result. The girls brought figurines and played with them. Taikon’s straw fits perfectly into the Playmobil man’s hand. So we made impromptu playground near a school so the children had fun on the horizontal pull-up bars. The site is surrounded by a fence with the same 8-pointed stars. Perhaps this is the most playable building from Taikon from the latest experiments with this building set.
Building straws, also known as building tubes, are a popular type of construction set with unique possibilities. They allow you to create silhouettes and contours of different objects and animals. All crafts from these sets can bend and move, so kids can actually play with their creations.
Instead of blocks, these sets have flexible plastic tubes, that look and act like soft cocktail straws. They can bend in any way and hold any position you want. The tubes usually attach to each other with special plastic connectors. The connectors can look and work differently in the different sets, but there are always many ways the straws can connect. The most common version is hard pins that go inside the straw’s hollow end, fixing it in place. Some connectors of this type have only one or two pins, some may have eight or ten. They also can have different forms, like sharp corners or straight rods. However, this connection type usually means that you can connect the straws only with their ends, and never with their middles.
These straws have great building potential, but, sadly, they can’t hold their shape under pressure (unlike, say, block towers that can hold something on their top). The straws’ building possibilities also depend on how long they are.
Made it together with my 3.5-year-old son.
Just like the real baby ostriches, this one is mostly legs and very little else.
A spring with forest celebration and happy owls among the flowers. Made from Gakken New Block set.
Unlike Plus Plus waffle blocks, Gakken blocks have pieces of many different shapes. They have round and curved pieces, long beams and H-like pieces. The empty spaces inside the blocks also can have different sizes and shapes, so you can stack inside different pieces in different positions. All this allows even more building possibilities than the waffle blocks sets with similar pieces. However, some pieces have less connection opgtions, because they don’t have pegs on the sides, or have only one hole.
Gakken brand appeared in Tokyo back in 1946 when it became an important component of Japan’s post-war efforts to rebuild the nation. Back then, it became incredible important to properly raise a new generation that will be able to create a better future.
The founder and educator, Hideto Furuoka, created first Gakken New Block set. He later told that his inspiration was traditional Japanese wooden houses. There he saw an idea of flat blocks people can took apart and rebuild again when they need to. So he decided to create a toy which repeats this principle. Children can connect these Japanese waffle building blocks, stack them, lay them, plug, or tuck blocks in different orientations, for example, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
Made from EDTOY blocks by Willy (6 years).
Everything included in the 42-piece Tegu set, in “Blues” colors. This set, unlike the smaller ones, have wheels, and also more prisms and cubes, so the crafts made from it are not so “flat”.
36 wooden pieces. Eye diameter is 3 cm, large green square – 5 cm. Interesting pieces and endless possibilities for kid’s fantasy. Its simple, yet this is one of our favorite mosaics.
Designer – Gregory Bricout. 20 8.5 cm cards to build your favorite animals. 36 multi-colored wooden pieces.
Using 2 magnetic construction sets together (globalization in action) – Edtoy from South Korea and Tegu from the USA, although it is made in Honduras.
Tegu planks fit well with Edtoy blocks, the bus rides on a pair of wheels from the Korean set. Thanks to the strong magnets of the Korean manufacturer, the vehicle turned out to be robust enough. Tegu’s magnets are hidden under the wood, so their strength is somewhat reduced.
