Gift Guide For Kid's Who Love To Build And Tinker
Do your children love to build and create? Mine sure do! It always starts when they are little by making sure they have a good supply of toys that stack, link and connect. Oh, they fun things they can create with these spending their fun days building tents, forts, towers, houses or even space ships!
To help keep their creative juices going I'm always on the lookout for great building toys. You know what I mean right? Toys that keep your children busy but learning at the same time. Toys that help young children practice problem-solving, building patterns and early engineering projects.
Gift Guide For Building & STEM Toys
Finding the right holiday gift can be a struggle. Rather than leaving you to a google rabbit hole or a bunch of recommendations to sift through, I've pulled together a one-stop shop filled with meaningful gifts for the tinkerers in your life...Whether they're 3 or 83.
In this gift guide, you'll find:
classic blocks reinvigorated
gifts for mechanical tinkerers
super cool robot kits
gifts for computer savvy kids
Building Blocks 2.0
Tiny builders, start here!
These soft tactile blocks are great for truly little littles to learn on. Made of natural rubber foam, they are squishy but perfect for building. They’re colorful and durable and fit together easily. Children can create a variety of shapes and structures!
Using imagination and coordination, young children work on spatial, fine, and gross motor skills. For kids who need sensory input, the tactile stimulation provided by this toy is fantastic.
And while we're thinking about giving, it's also important to think about responsible buying. This is a green product, made in India at a fair trade factory using premium quality, child-safe materials. The surface is 100% nylon and wipes clean, making it perfect for little chewers!
The unmatched magnetic building set. Talk about STEAM!
Perfect for large families and ambitious builders, the Challenger set encourages kids to explore magnetic construction through modular play. Magformers believes it is vital for children to develop through creativity and constructional play. This set does not disappoint.
You'll find a variety of magnetic shapes in this set, both Rainbow and XL cruiser pieces so that children can design and build ideas from both lines including the ‘magic ball’ and super fast XL roadster.
This set makes a great addition to a math or art curriculum, that's super hands - on. Children of all ages can build and create together making it a great social gift set.
Tegu Blocks: 40-Piece Magnetic Wooden Set
Tegu blocks are finely crafted with magnets embedded so kids can build multiple structures form various shapes. Like Rubbablox,Tegu is made from eco-friendly material (in this case wood) and comes in a variety of color schemes to suit preference and mood. Honduras and named after the capital city Tegucigalpa.
Kids defy gravity and push their imagination in previously unseen ways. No instruction manuals or electronics; just toys that demand imagination and inspire limitless creativity across all ages.
Tegu Blocks are bringing back open, creative play with style - right in time!
This makes a great gift because it unlocks a child’s mind through innovative play. The pieces are small enough to be portable.
The LEGO Christmas Ornaments Book
Packed with step-by-step instructions for 15 charming builds, The LEGO Christmas Ornaments Book is the perfect family activity this holiday season! It's one part coffee table for adults, and two parts instruction book kids of all ages.
With The LEGO Christmas Ornaments Book as their guide, kids make classic globe and barrel ornaments, all out of LEGO! Other possible creations include original gingerbread houses, a merry Santa, arcade cabinets, and so much more!
This makes a perfect gift for the child who already owns tons of LEGO blocks but is always looking for inspirational building ideas.
Magformers Math Activity Set
Math comes to life with this awesome set!
Put some STEAM in your holiday plans! This math activity set stimulates learning through magnetic construction and creation. Activities in the set utilize the always attracting magnets to solve math problems such as patterns, addition and subtraction, and 2D nets to 3D structures.
Perfect for the visual-spatial learner who loves math puzzles.
Use the 50 page math book included to layout Magformers shapes and complete the mathematical challenges! The set contains 12 different geometric shapes including squares and triangles, rectangles and trapezoids through to the super squares and triangles.
Mechanical Masterminds
Toobeez Building 57 Piece Connector Set
Ages 7 to 10
Build big connections! Kids work together to literally make bridges, obstacle courses - anything they imagine.
Start fun-filled construction with just three simple steps: connect, twist, and create. Toobeez Original Building Kit is a life-sized construction toy. Unlike regular blocks, this kit comes with interlocking tubes and spheres that can be linked to create structures right out of kids' imagination. They can construct anything from a doll house, a helicopter, lemonade stand or a pirate ship.
Just connect and twist the tube into the connector spheres. It’s a great set to be used indoors for forts as well as outdoors for lawn activities.
This set makes a lasting gift because it promotes creativity and inspires imagination with unlimited building possibilities. Adults won’t be able to resist creating with their kids!
ROBOTIC PROFESSORS
14-in-1 Educational Solar Robot Kit
The 14-in-1 Educational Solar Robot kit is the recipient of the "Best Green Products Award 2013" from Dr Toy and Creative Child Magazine has anointed it with "Top Toy of the Year Award" and "Kids Product of the Year Award."
It's the coolest and greenest robot on the planet!
This robot can be transformed into 14 different robot modes which include a multitude of comical and functional movements. The user can easily change from a Wagging-Tail Dog to Running Beetle to Walking Crab to Surfer to Speedster to Zombie Chaser!
It's super versatile, too - there are parts that make the robot move on land and water. Like an amphibian! This a great gift for more advanced robot aficionados.
Magformers Walking Robot Set
Build a 3D bot! This makes a creative and thinking gift for the child fascinated by robots.
Young innovators will click, connect, and create with the NEW Magformers 45 piece Walking Robot set! Kids will love following along with the step-by-step idea booklet to discover the possibilities of the colorful Walking Robot Set. Eight walking characters are built using the STEAM engine block and walking accessories!
Building with Magformers encourages children to use their imagination and show their creativity while developing skills and knowledge critical to their development success. Magformers uses high quality “always attracting” magnetic technology that provides endless constructional play.
Mand Labs KIT-1: The Coolest DIY Kit for Fun Learning in Electronics
An electrifying gift! This kit is perfect for the budding electrician looking to be stimulated by simple but intriguing experiments.
Mand Labs KIT-1 is one of the coolest Educational Electronics Kit that you will ever find. With their powerful step by step visual instructions, teens can create a variety of fascinating electricity and electronic projects. They will be able to understand how real world electronic component works, test laws of physics, gain technical skills and have fun.Watch out, Nobel!
The best part is that the kit is all-in-one. It comes with all requisite parts and tools for making 50+ projects and venturing further into electronics, books for theoretical reference, learning and making videos, troubleshooting guide, and an award winning package design that opens up into a personalized workstation. Note: This is a safe kit.
Computer-Meets-Builder
Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and Wordpress
Teens will have a blast learning how to make their own website with the help of this fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of website-building. Mix creativity with real world empowerment. The awesome cartoon guide will help teens learn the basics and pretty soon, they'll have a website all their own to show off to all their friends.
Readers learn how to use HTML tags, make their own site shine with CSS, customize Wordpress to fit their needs, and choose a company to host the site. They also get advice on things like how to pick a good domain name - and those of you in the blogging sphere know that's no joke!
Help kids stop dreaming of their perfect website and start making it!
