This idea comes from The STEM Laboratory. It’s educational, it involves Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM), it’s creative and it includes building blocks, so you know we love it. Click-A-Brick Challenge Cards This is similar to the Click-A-Brick advent calendar we told you about before. Let’s take a look at how to make these challenge cards. What you’ll need: Card stock Colored pencils Click-A-Bricks Step 1 Cut out as many cards from your card stock as you want. The more ideas you come up with, the more cards you’ll...

You know what’s amazing? When you can combine two things that you love to make one even better thing. Peanut butter and chocolate, for example. On their own? Great. Together? Spectacular! Or, how about cake and ice cream? Fries and ketchup? Chips and dip? Is anyone else here getting hungry? Anyway, the point is putting two things together can create something incredible and in this post we’re going to combine two things to create something that will make everyone at your next birthday party go “wow!” We’re going to combine...

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...

The cold dreary months of the winter are slowly coming to an end, beckoning forth the warm(ish) rays of spring. Even if you are the sort of parent who encourages your children to get outside and hack the cold, it is very likely that the whole family has been a little more housebound than you would be in the summer. This spring, why not play outside more with your children?Outside play has been shown to have many more health benefits for your children than inside play. In a lot of...

We here at Click-A-Brick™ appreciate the educational potential that toys have. You may look at a child quietly (or, more likely, noisily) playing with a toy and think they’re just merrily playing away without a care in the world. And, they are. But, what you may not know is that they’re also learning as they play. Building Toy Building toys have a long and established reputation as being great educational tools for children. For the wee ones, they help with physical development, as the children work their muscles to connect...

Not all learning takes place in the classroom. Throughout the history of evolution, the single biggest factor of learning has always been play. Play is the most natural way in which children come to understand the world, and to develop the motor and cognitive skills needed to function within it. Most learning takes place in the realm where imagination and fun, meets physical interaction with objects.Many of us will be able to relate to how our early experiences with childhood toys and games, came to shape how we think, and...