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The crew at Click-A-Brick congratulate the winners in the Construction category of the Toy Shop UK Independent Toy Awards, saying all three Construction category winners have a unique take on building toys. Click Blocks from toymaker Bigjigs Toys won the Gold Medal in the Construction category while the Slot-together castle with an Usborne book from Usborne Publishing took the Silver Medal and Arckit building sets from Arckit received the Bronze Medal. The awards process for the 7th annual Independent Toy Awards asked more than 900 independent toy retailers listed with...

Click-A-Brick has announced the release of its latest educational building toy set slated for launch later this month. The 112-piece Rainbowland set features bricks of pink, purple, yellow, blue, beige, red, green and orange, plus eyes, axles and wheels. With the set, children will be able to make a mermaid, a butterfly, puppies, a horse and carriage, a duck, a flamingo, flowers, a reindeer, a catapult and anything else they can imagine. At 112 pieces, this is the largest Click-A-Brick set to date. After launching a series of smaller 30-piece...

The new series of toys by companies Digital Dream Labs, Make Wonder and Sphero are designed to allow children to grasp the concepts of coding. The companies claim that coding skills can be made sufficiently simple for a child to master. Jason Smith, the Co-Founder of Click-A-Brick, endorses the direction of these new toys. “These are a new type of toy that aims to teach children the foundations of computer programming,” Smith said. “The process is so much fun it feels more akin to playing than to learning. The toys...

The team at learning toy company Click-A-Brick find themselves in agreement with one of Britain’s top scientists, professor of experimental physics at Cambridge University Athene Donald, who says children are influenced by the toys they are given and this can have a negative effect on girls who are given stereotypical female toys to play with like dolls instead of toys that would help stimulate their interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, which all have a dearth of females. Donald, speaking during her first address as the...

The team at educational toy company Click-A-Brick says a new list of non-toy items that every child should have, written by blogger Katherine Martinko and appearing on the Treehugger.com site, is a refreshing departure from the usual must-have toy lists that usually start popping up around this time of year. Martinko draws from her own childhood memories and says to give a child a fulfilling childhood with, parents should give them items that will get them imagining and playing even when they’re away from their toy box. A map of...

The team at educational toy company Click-A-Brick says the results of a recent survey done for the British Toy and Hobby Association’s Make Time 2 Play campaign are discouraging. The survey questioned 2,000 British parents about their perception of play and found that: one third say their children's idea of play is using recreational technology over traditional play;seven in ten parents admit to choosing to give their child a screen entertainment based activity over traditional play;20 percent believe too much traditional or outdoor play could impact their children’s behavior and...

The team at Click-A-Brick say they are impressed by the ingenuity shown by building block toy rental companies, saying they cater to a unique market of customers who want to experience the toys without having to commit to buying them. One new site that has recently launched in the United Kingdom, BuildurBricks, allows customers to rent the latest Lego sets for about £10 or £25 per month depending on the size of the set. They come with the original instructions and are sanitized between rentals. Co-founder of BuildurBricks, Ash Jey,...

A new survey that finds the top 10 earning degrees are all related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has gotten the nod of approval from, the team at building toy company Click-A-Brick, who says it nicely illustrates the importance of learning these skills. Compiled by compensation consulting company PayScale, the top 10 bachelor’s degrees for career earnings are: Petroleum EngineeringChemical EngineeringElectrical EngineeringMaterials Science and EngineeringAerospace EngineeringComputer EngineeringPhysicsApplied MathematicsComputer ScienceNuclear Engineering PayScale collected data from degreed workers in the United States (excluding advanced degrees) and analyzed both starting and...

Educational toy company Click-A-Brick says the opening of the STEM3 Academy in Los Angeles last month fills a void in the education system by giving students with autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, ADHD, developmental delays, abuse and emotional problems a chance to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in an environment that will cater to their unique ways of learning. According to the STEM3 Academy’s website, approximately 20 percent of the population has a social or learning difference such as dyslexia, ADHD or autism while as many as...

A movement in Australia to introduce science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to students as early as kindergarten is the right way to get them interested in these subjects, the team at building set toy company Click-A-Brick says. In a column for the Canberra Times, school curriculum and technology integration specialist Dr. Jane Hunter of the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney wrote that if schools want children to become interested in the STEM fields as they grow, they’ll need to introduce these concepts in kindergarten....