Happy Halloween from your friends at Click-A-Brick!       [Photo courtesy of Parée on Flickr]

Halloween is just around the corner! Houses festooned with cobwebs and doorsteps decorated with pumpkins, the neighborhood streets just waiting to be filled with children going door to door for Trick-or-Treating. However, this October 31st, be on the lookout for something a little different... A Different Type of Trick-or-Treat If you see a household with a teal pumpkin on their doorstep, it means that the traditional offering of candy may be a bit different. In fact, it may be removed altogether! You see, food allergies can affect how a child...

Top 5 Ways to Beat the Summer Heat: Have Fun While Staying Inside With summer in full swing here in the south, our family has had to improvise when it comes to choosing between staying cool and finding something to do inside or braving the heat and playing outdoors. We’ve more often than not had to limit our outdoor time to the early morning or the evening. With the temperature going into the upper 90s and sometimes even triple digits - plus the humidity- it’s not safe for anyone to be...

KaBOOM! is a national non-profit that is committed to increasing the quantity and quality of play available to children. Darrell Hammond, the CEO and Founder of KaBOOM!, aims to raise awareness of the importance of play in the fostering of healthy lives and communities. Since 1996, KaBOOM! has collaborated with a series of partners to build, open or improve nearly 16,000 playgrounds, engage more than one million volunteers and serve over 7.4 million children. Jason Smith, Co-Founder of Click-A-Brick, supports the initiative and philosophy of KaBOOM! “The fact is that...

Building toys are a fun and educational way for you and your child to engage in play. The imagination of your child will allow them to create an infinite world of fun and games out of building blocks, and we have no doubt that they will come up with their own entertainment. However, engaging in play with educational toys with your child can greatly enhance the value of their learning, and can also be a lot of fun for both you and them!  To help you to get involved, here...

Kids have always had in common a shared joy when playing with toys. The type of toys that they have enjoyed has changed over time, but aside from cultural and generational trends some toys have been around for many lifetimes, and seem to be here to stay, though they tend to evolve and adapt with the changing times. Building toys are one such timeless treasures. Building blocks have been around as toys since around the 1700s, though we are pretty sure that people have been stacking objects on top of...

Imagine if your child was in school sitting in math class and the teacher just wrote a bunch of numbers on the board and then left it up to the students to figure out what to do with those numbers. That wouldn’t be very helpful, would it? But, that’s essentially what happens when a parent buys an educational toy for their child and then just gives the child the toy and leaves them with it. Children don’t learn by osmosis, they need to be guided and sometimes even shown how...

We like to keep ourselves busy at Click-A-Brick, and are always busy trying to connect the pieces, and come up with our next aim or idea. The learning toys that we make are starting to take a hold in the market place. To put it another way, children really like our toys. Satisfied customers have left us hundreds of positive reviews about our building sets, and as always these keep rolling in. The Army Defenders Set Our most recent and most exciting development is the release of the Army Defenders...

Many parents are dealing with the worrying concern of seeing their child glued to the screen, when they could be playing outside with their friends, or playing with more educational toys. Screens are a common worry for parents. They come in all shapes and sizes, and are pretty entertaining to say the least. Televisions, smartphones, and tablets are all finding their way into the hands of children at a younger and younger age.  We adults tend to set a bad example, and spend many hours a day watching television, while...

During childhood, education toys such as block play are an integral part of learning, both inside and outside of educational environments.Fun and learning are one activity for children. With play, their minds begin to make more sense of the world that they live in. Dimensions of space and time, explorations of the body and mind, the manipulation of shapes and colors, interactions with adults and other children; all aspects of development are facilitated through play.Solid research has demonstrated this time and time again, though as parents we can also rely...