Do you like gummy bears? Those squishy little things are so delicious and you can totally play with them before you eat them. Who doesn’t love playing with their food a little bit? Something that you can’t do with gummy bears, though, is build stuff with them. Can gummy bears build a house? Nope. So, if you can’t use gummy bears to build a gummy house, what can you use to build a gummy house? The answer is simple: gummy building blocks! And you can even make the gummy building...

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...

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...

With Click-A-Brick™ children can learn at their own pace. We live in a fast-paced society, where a lot of children's learning takes place in an environment that has some amount of pressure. Even from a young age there are time constraints, deadlines, and a need to get it right. At least this is how it is in schooling.In a lot of ways, this is how is has to be, simply so that children start to understand the pressures involved in a typical job role. Deadlines and quality control are a...

The world of play has changed a little since we were young. Skipping ropes, hopscotch, and “imagination games,” which required little more than an active and imaginative mind, have been replaced by flashing lights and loud noises, buttons and robotic features, and the omnipresence of the screen. This new generation of flashy gizmos is considered to be more sophisticated than the toys we played with when we were young nippers. I beg to differ! It is easy enough, in this world of technological awe and wonder, to lose sight of...