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...

Teaching science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills using the literature that children read in the classroom is a brilliant way to combine lessons and use already familiar subjects to teach students new skills, says the team at learning toy company Click-A-Brick. As recently reported by Slate, the initiative, called Novel Engineering, asks students to identify problems they find in books they read for school that can be solved with engineering. In an example given in the Slate article, third grade students are tasked with protecting a turtle’s home from...

The team at building set toy company Click-A-Brick have praised a Canadian mother’s ingenuity for inspiring her daughter’s interest in engineering while simultaneously providing a female role model in the field of engineering for all young children. Dinah Davis, in a blog post for the Medium blog network The Lighthouse, outlined how her seven-year-old daughter received a letter from Santa Claus informing the girl that Mrs. Claus wanted to pass along a greeting, but she was busy in the workshop fixing the toy-making machine. Furthermore, the letter revealed that Mrs....

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...

Click-A-Brick has launched three promotions that give fans of the educational building toy the chance to win free sets or free Amazon gift cards or to receive a free Starbucks gift card for displaying their creativity and giving feedback on the toy. Post a Selfie to Win The Post a Selfie to Win promotion requires fans to either take a selfie with their Click-A-Brick creation (or have parents take a photo of their children with their creation) or just take a photo of the creation by itself and post the...

Building block toy company Click-A-Brick hails a new list of basic toys that every child should have. The list, from Barbara Danza, parenting journalist of the Epoch Times, places blocks at the top, saying they are an essential part of any child’s toy box and make a superb gift idea for children this holiday season or any other time of year. While the majority of gift ideas for the holidays revolve around toys that light up, make a lot of noise and feature the latest movie characters, these types of...

A new list of non-toy gift ideas for children have executives at toy company Click-A-Brick praising the novel approach to holiday gift giving, saying the best gifts for boys and girls aren’t necessarily always in toy form. Washington Post writer Jamie Davis Smith’s 10 non-toy gift ideas for children include simple things like creating a personal space for children within the home where they can read or make art projects undisturbed. Other novel ideas that don’t include toys are to take out a magazine subscription in a child’s name, giving...

The Co-Founders of Click-A-Brick have thrown their support behind a child development expert who says parents may want to eschew the most trendy and popular gifts this year in favor of educational gifts that will help with a child’s development. Although many popular toys nowadays are either collectibles or are based on the latest Hollywood blockbuster to come out in the previous year, University of South Carolina Early Childhood Education Associate Professor Angela Baum suggests parents consider how a toy will help their children developmentally and choose toys based on...

The founders of the educational toy company Click-A-Brick celebrated the upcoming holiday season at the Sunrise Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada. The building block company sponsored a charity event on Friday, December 4th, 2015. There were a series of representatives from the company in attendance to hand out Click-A-Brick toy sets and interact with the children. They were also accompanied at the event by a representative from the North Pole: Santa Claus. The company organized the event in accordance to their founding mission, which is to provide great experiences...