The team at learning toy company Click-A-Brick is thrilled to see the discovery of a bacteria that eats plastic and has been touted by scientists as a potential new way to recycle plastic waste, saying any company that uses plastic in its products should be happy with the discovery. A team from Kyoto University discovered the bacteria in a recycling center after looking at 250 samples over a five year period, according to an article published on The Conversation website. The newly discovered species of bacteria has been named Ideonella...

In order to make it more affordable for parents to get their children science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) toys, building toy company Click-A-Brick has extended the 20 percent promotion that it was using for its recently released Bug’s Life set to include the just-released Sandy Sidekicks set. The co-founders of Click-A-Brick, Jason Smith and Georg de Gorostiza, hope the discount allows parents who wouldn’t normally be able to buy a STEM toy a better chance at getting one for their children. “It’s no secret that the more popular a...

Educational toy company Click-A-Brick has announced the launch of its latest educational toy offering, the emergency services-themed 100-piece Rescue Squad, which will be available on both the United States and United Kingdom Amazon sites, plus the Click-A-Brick website. Featuring bricks of black, white, light blue, dark blue, red, yellow and clear -- and inspired by emergency services vehicles -- the Rescue Squad set comes with instructions for building a variety of emergency services vehicles, plus a robot. Wheels make it possible for children to play with the creations once they...

The team at building set toy company Click-A-Brick say a reported increase in toy sales in the United States last year is promising and matches the growth they’ve seen in their own numbers last year. The report has them hopeful that 2016 will continue that momentum across the industry. Market research company NPD Group recently released toy sales figures from 2015 and revealed that US toy sales increased by 6.7 percent to $19.4 billion last year. This increase was more than the 6.2 percent increase the NPD Group had predicted...

Click-A-Brick has launched the Buy One Smile, Give One Back to a Child in Need campaign to give the opportunity for less fortunate children to receive educational building toys. As part of the campaign, the company will donate one set of Click-A-Brick to a child in need for every set sold through the Click-A-Brick website between now and Dec. 31, 2015 and the company is asking its fans to help decide who gets a donated set. Fans who would like to help are asked to simply make a purchase on...

The Click-A-Brick crew has high praise for a program that uses building blocks to not only teach children science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills, but also teaches them to use those skills to solve real world problems affecting the Earth today. First Lego Junior League uses the popular building toy to encourage children to think about ways to solve major problems and build simple, motorized machines to deal with them while adhering to core values of celebrating discovery, using teamwork and displaying gracious professionalism. The 2015-2016 Waste Wise Challenge...

The Click-A-Brick crew has applauded a recent article in the Globe and Mail newspaper that says less is more when choosing the best toys for helping children developmentally. Pared-down toys, the article says, can boost kids’ development and foster creative play better than toys with too many bells and whistles. “Toys we choose in the early development years are crucial to the child’s education and development,” Toronto psychologist Ewa Antczak is quoted as saying in the article. “Young children are more open to learning and enriching influences, but also more...

The team at Click-A-Brick have announced their holiday deal schedule on Amazon. Following on the heels of the company’s successful Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns, they want to give parents and other people shopping for educational gifts for children another chance to save before Christmas. Customers can save between 10 and 15 percent on Click-A-Brick sets throughout the first couple of weeks in December on key dates. For the 30-piece Mini Machines set, customers can save 15 percent on Dec. 1 and 2. For the 30-piece Feather Friends set,...

The sales holiday Cyber Monday is considered to be one of the most important shopping days of the year. On this day, retailers seek to offer customers attractive sales that can only be found on the internet. The building block toy company Click-A-Brick offered discounts of 15% and 30% across their entire line of toy sets. The toy company predicted huge sales for this day. The results they have registered have exceeded all of their projections. The Co-Founder of Click-A-Brick, Jason Smith, commented on the company’s remarkable sales results. “We...

Educational toy company Click-A-Brick is pleased to announce that two of its sets have been accepted into the STEM Toy Store on Amazon. The 30-piece Feather Friends set and the 100-piece Mighty Machines set have both been accepted into Amazon’s toy section dedicated to toys that help children learn science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The sets started being listed in the specialized section this month among other STEM toy offerings. Being listed in the STEM Toy Store will allow parents specifically looking for educational toys to more easily find...