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The Best Building Blocks for Your Child

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Lubica Misevski

A question a lot of parents ask, is what are the best building blocks I can buy my child?

In today's article, we will share some of our ranges and also make recommendations on which set might be right for your child.

Building blocks, as you would know, are a foundation toy that no little one should be without. They are wonderful for developing motor skills, spatial awareness, and confidence for your children.

There are many to choose from. Including magnetic blocks, blocks that aren’t quite blocks, wooden, rubber and cardboard building blocks.

So let us start!

K’s Kids Knock Building Blocks. These beautiful little coloured soft blocks are made for babies and toddlers. There are little peek-a-boo windows and house type shapes, so your little one can have hours of fun.  



Tegu Magnetic Wooden Blocks - Suitable from baby to adult. Beautiful blocks let your child create some unique structures from little birds to weightlifters. Fun for any age. For our whole Tegu range, please click here.

Tegu Pocket Pouch Prism Jungle | KidzInc Australia | Online Educational Toys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                               Tegu Pocket Pouch Prism (Jungle) 

                                          Tegu 24 Piece (Tints)     

 

                                     Tegu 42 Piece (Jungle)

Kapla Planks - Suitable from three years + is a wonderful wooden construction toy encouraging children to learn about the inherent power of the mathematic ratio and its application to architecture.

               Kapla Planks Wooden Blocks | KidzInc Australia | Online Educational Toys

                      Kapla Planks 200 Wooden Blocks 

                   Kapla Planks Octocolour 100 Wooden Blocks | KidzInc Australia | Online Educational Toys

            Kapla Planks Octocolour 100 Wooden Blocks 


Plan Toys 50 Blocks - Suitable for two years + this set is a combination of natural wood and colours. Great for stimulating your child's imagination.

                                                                                 



Melissa and Doug Wooden ABC and 123 Building Blocks. Hand painted artwork, numbers, letters, and images on the one set. It just makes this set not only economical, but a wonderful learning toy.



Fatbrain Toys Tobbles Neo. We love this one. Your child can have the blocks wiggle, spin, stack, and balance even when the second block is bigger than the first. Not quite blocks, because they are not round. But they do everything blocks do and more.

We feel this is a wonderful way to show children there are many solutions to any problem and many options.

They are easy for Babies to hold, and we feel one of the best stacking toys on the market.

 



Hape Maple Building Block Set - Another beautiful little wooden and coloured block set.



Hape ABC Building Blocks - Ok so you caught us out, we have more than one Hape set of building blocks. Why? Well, value for money and quality these are great building blocks for your children.

Suitable from 2 years + they are great blocks to own.



Melissa and Doug Alphabet Truck - Yes an alphabet truck set. I mean who does not want a truck with so they can carry their building blocks from one room to another :)



Hape Fantasia Stacking Block Train. A train set that you can stack the colourful building blocks on also carries from room to room. These little blocks are also great at building fine motor skills for your child.



Fat Brain Toys Squigz. This colourful little set won “Best in Play International Toyfair 2013, Parenting Magazine.”

Not a classical set of building blocks, the variety of options and they way the stick together for your little one are amazing. For the lateral thinking little one. Suitable three years +



Hape Fantasy Castle - A 22 piece building block set that you can make into a castle. Need we say more?



Hape Undersea Building Blocks - Want an octopus in your blocks? Ok. How about a starfish? You get the idea. Just a novel way for your child to have more fun with building blocks. Suitable from 2 years +



Now you know just how many blocks there are to choose from. Of course at the outset of the article we stated that we would also make recommendations.

Now the simplest way to do this is to let you know is what we have bought or own children, and what we wish we also had :)

Having a 2-year-old and four-year-old, we bought a couple of sets for each of them.

Our experience with building blocks and each of our children has been very different.

Our daughter gets the greatest sense of achievement by building towers. And once they were complete we would sit there either counting the numbers with her or explaining the letters and words.

The Melissa and Doug Wooden 123 Building Blocks, Hape ABC were the ones we initially used with Sienna. She loved them, and she still does today at the age of 4.

With our son, he was lucky because when he was born so was our toy store. For him, he got some of the latest building blocks as well as the benefit of using some of Sienna’s.

Little Zach loves his Tegu, which was perfect for him even as a one-year-old. They are beautiful little wooden blocks that connect via magnets and safe from baby right through the ages.

He also loves Fatbrain Tobbles Neo because of the shape and how easy they are for his little hand to hold.

But you know what he loves most of all, knocking them all down. A bit like his father when he was young.

We have personally hand selected every building block in our range like we were choosing them for our children.

No matter which one you decide on you will be happy. Whether learning the alphabet, numbers or how to stack. We have a building block for every occasion and every munchkin. For our whole range of blocks, please click here.

Why? Well, because learning should be fun.

Got more questions, ask away..

Posted in building blocks, fine motor skills, spatial smart toys, toddler toys, toys for babies, toys for babies and toddlers, toys for preschoolers, wooden building blocks, Wooden magnetic blocks, wooden toys

Hape Toys Made from Wood and Love

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

 

We are proud to stock an extensive range of Hape Wooden Toys. The craftsmanship that goes into each piece, there is no doubt that each and every one of the Hape Toys are made with love.

When we first bought our daughter the Hape Guitar, we were not sure what to expect. The beautiful little Guitar that turned up exceeded all our expectations. Not to mention that of our daughter's expectations.

Hape Guitar



The collection is not only musical, and these beautiful wooden toys also have a walk-a-long Puppy, push and pull Giraffe, and walk along Hedgehog.

 

Walk-a-long Puppy

 

Push and pull Giraffe

 



Walk along Hedgehog

One of my Husbands favourites in the range is the Hape Rock and Rhythm Band, and this is a Christmas present for our son and Dad :).

 

Rock and Rhythm Band


For the real little ones, the Hape little red rider is very popular and can be used as a car or as a walker. It is very versatile, and it will be the envy of every little kid. This little Hape Red Walker won the 2014 Toy of the Year Award in Finland.

 

Little red rider


Hape happens  to be a global leader in high-quality and bamboo toys. They are one of the largest producers of toys made from sustainable materials.

They are very particular about design, production, and packaging. This shows in their workmanship.

Our collection of Hape Wooden Toys is building every day, and we currently carry over 100 of their products.

So whether it is a Hape Fridge, Marble run Quadrilla Autobahn or Quadrilla Cyclone set or Hape Little Plane you are after we will have them in stock.

 

 

Fridge

 

 

 

Quadrilla Autobahn

 

Quadrilla Cyclone set

Little Plane



As you are probably aware, all of the Hape toys are brilliant for child development. Dependent, of course, on the product you select will depend on the area they impact most.

This can range from developing motor skills, math skill, cognitive skills, through to social skills.

For us at KidzInc it is not only critical that the toys we sell are of the highest quality, but they must also add something to the child’s life skills.

We feel learning should be fun, not one time, but every single day. Even as adults, because when it enjoyable we all learn quicker.

Our little one’s are little sponges, and the absorb everything so quickly that is why having the right toys is critical.

We know Hape toys fit this ideal, and we are proud to sell them. For the complete range please click here.

Posted in educational toys, Hape Toys, toddler toys, toys for babies, toys for babies and toddlers, toys for preschoolers, wooden toys

Tegu Baby and Toddler Wooden Magnetic Blocks

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

 

Tegu wooden blocks must honestly be the most beautiful wooden magnetic blocks in the market. To see them, first hand is like receiving a gift from Apple.

From the packaging to the product every millimetre has been made with the utmost care. Tegu is clearly a company that creates products with the baby, toddler, preschooler and older child in mind.

The finish is smooth, and the colours are magical, taking nothing away from the fact they are wooden blocks. Everything is very natural.

All the Tegu blocks are magnetic which means your little one will have hours of fun playing with them, and help them learn cause and effect as they go.

They have taken the concept of toy block to another level. Whether you are after wooden baby blocks or wooden blocks for your toddler, or even older child these will not disappoint.

The Tegu magnetic wooden blocks are painted with water based colours leaving that natural wooden block look. These magnetic blocks are a lovely to hold and for baby or toddlers blocks; they are just ideal for little hands.

Tegu have made these blocks as heirloom quality blocks. So you can tell by this statement they have been made to last, and they are actually fun to play with regardless of age. But just perfect as baby blocks.

They come in a range of different options so you can start out small and build from there.

There is the Tegu 24 piece, where your baby or toddler is starting to build some interesting structures.

Tegu 24 Piece (Tint)


The Tegu Travel Tote for those trips were you want to bring something fun along for your toddler or baby (blocks sold separately).


Tegu Travel Tote

 

The Tegu Pocket Pouch which is perfect for keeping your child entertained when eating out.

 

Tegu Pocket Pouch Jungle


Or the Tegu 42 piece if you want your little one to have them all.


Tegu 42 piece (Jungle)

Tegu 42 Piece (Blues)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tegu 42 piece (blues)

Tegu Sticky Monsters Beans and Tum Tum

New in 2017 is the Tegu Sticky Monster range, with the above Beans and Tum Tum winning the Spielwarenmesse Toy of The Year Award 2017 for the Baby and Infant Category. 

And finally, the Classroom Kit for those families with more than one child, or if you want to create amazing and large structures.

Tegu Magnetic Wooden Blocks Classroom Kit

Tegu Magnetic Wooden Blocks Classroom Kit

 

There are some other options in between, and this link will take you to the full range. We have the entire range available in Australia for you to chose from. 

The Tegu magnetic blocks are great for babies or toddlers to develop fine motor skills. They learn cause and effect, patience and are awarded for the achievement. They can look back and be proud of their magnetic wooden block structures. Even if it is only 2 blocks sticking together.  

So you have no doubt how much we love this product; we bought it ourselves. We bought this one for our son, as he loved his sisters Magna Tiles, but he is too young for that toy at the moment. That one will have to be a hand me down.

If we knew when our daughter was born this was such a good product we would have bought her Tegu magnetic blocks. As they have two Tegu colour designs.

One is very natural with earthy colours, whilst the other has pink in the collections, which most would suggest suits females more?

These magnetic blocks are first class, and if you are looking for that beautiful present for your baby, toddler, preschooler and the older child you will be very happy.

Please click here through to the full collection available in Australia of the Tegu magnetic wooden blocks. 

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Tobbles Neo at KidzInc Australia

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Fat Brain Toys Tobbles Neo Stacking Toy

 

 

The Tobbles Neo is new to Australia in 2014 and made by Fat Brain Toys. It is the perfect little stacking toys for little babies and toddlers.

Awarded the international 2013 Toy of the Year at Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair. Which is the German toy fair, and considered one of the most prestigious toy events in the world.

The recommended age is 6 months+, and what a delight of a toy it is. The video of the Tobbles Neo below demonstrates just how much fun this toy is for toddlers.


With the Tobbles Neo, toddlers can stack, topple, spin, balance and more. With added tactile textures and wavy lines offering little hands never-ending possibilities for play and learning.

As you saw in the video, the colours combinations are beautiful, and this toy kind of makes stacking blocks look so 1980’s.

And honestly we love stacking blocks.

This is the perfect little toy to develop toddlers fine motor skills and spatial awareness. It also provides them with a sense of achievement when they stack them all up.

This is a toy you and your baby or toddler will have hours of fun with. We just love it.

When you see them first hand, you realise just how well they are made. The love and care that obviously went into designing the Tobbles Neo is obvious.

For babies and toddlers this has been one of our most popular items, and it has been only recently added to our new collection.

If you want to read more about every aspect of the Tobbles Neo or purchase this wonderful toy, simply click here.

Fat Brain Toys who make Tobbles Neo are a company dedicated to creating toys that develop young minds. At KidzInc, we are dedicated to the same purpose, and will only distribute toys that meet these criteria, and that are made to the highest standards.

If you are interested in more of their range, you can see them here. It includes HexActly, RepTangles, Squiz and much more.

We love the Fat Brain Toy range, and the Tobbles Neo as you can probably tell is one of our favourites.

We know your toddler or baby will love this one, in fact, we bought the Tobbles Neo for our little boy for Christmas last year.

That is how much like the Tobbles Neo.

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