With the newest installment of the Jurassic Park franchise -- Jurassic World -- having broken global opening weekend records, the team at Click-A-Brick is excited about the movie’s potentially positive effect on its upcoming dinosaur-themed Dino Pals set. While the company has no licensing deal with the movie, it is largely responsible for the dinosaur trend in toys this year, something the Click-A-Brick team is happy to take full advantage of. According to a Fortune magazine article, the Jurassic World movie brought in about $512 million worldwide during its opening...

The Toy Industry of America is promoting an innovative campaign known as Genius at Play to foster the quality and quantity of playtime available to children. Pediatricians recommend that children spend at least 60 minutes of every day engaged in free play. Playtime is vital to children’s emotional, mental and physical health. Toys and play can help kids achieve their developmental goals and cultivate creativity. Click-A-Brick Co Founder Jason Smith is an avid enthusiast of the campaign. “Playtime is way more than just fun and games — it’s actually an...

The team behind educational learning toy Click-A-Brick says its new 30-piece Rainforest Rascals set can be used to teach children about the rainforest and build interest about rainforest conservation. They hope that by getting children interested in rainforest conservation the next generation of adults will make a concerted effort to save this important ecosystem. According to the Rainforest Conservation Fund, rainforests are disappearing at the rate of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per year. If not stopped, it is estimated that they could completely disappear by the mid-21st century. While...

The Toy Industry Association (TIA) of the United States has identified “Smart Play” as one of the strongest toy trends for the market. “Smart Play” corresponds to the growing share of educational and STEM based toys on the market. The co-founders of the educational toy company Click-A-Brick gladly welcome this change of course for the toy industry. Jason Smith, Click A Brick Co-Founder, applauds this growing trend. “I can see an infusion of educational toys into the market,” Smith said. “From the traditional to the cutting edge, the new focus...

The famous toy store F.A.O. Schwarz closed its doors for the last time on Wednesday July 14, 2015. For over a hundred years, the toy bazaar drew kids of all ages to witness its impressive array of toys. At its heyday, the toy emporium had 40 locations around the world and its Fifth Avenue store was a prime tourist destination in New York City. It was forced to shut down due to increasing rents and competition from online retailers. Click-A-Brick Toys Co-Founder Jason Smith expresses dismay at the news of...

The team at building toy company Click-A-Brick heartily agrees with tips offered by blogger, former primary teacher and children’s learning expert Lisa Bradburn about how to limit children’s time spent with technological gadgets to avoid having them become dependent on them for their entertainment. Kids who spend too much time in front of screens grow up with little to no imagination or sense of reality outside of video games and fantasy worlds, Bradburn says in a blog post on her site The Toy Hunter. She recommends taking the following steps...

A new survey that reveals almost 70 percent of Americans shop online regularly has the team at building block toy company Click-A-Brick nodding in approval, as the company is strictly online only at this point. The study, Mintel’s Online Shopping US 2015, says 69 percent of US online adults use the internet to shop at least monthly, with 33 percent shopping online weekly in 2015. This is up from 24 percent who shopped online weekly in 2014. The study also revealed that 48 percent of online shoppers admit to occasionally...

Building block toy company Click-A-Brick is pleased to announce the winners of its Toy Chest Giveaway promotion that ran on Facebook from July 10 - 19. The company congratulates Tee Anderson, Deborah Denn, Shana Hendrickson, Shari Alligood and Scott Eisenhower for being chosen as winners of the giveaway. Each winner will receive four Click-A-Brick sets consisting of: One 30-piece Animal Kingdom set One 30-piece Feather Friends set One 100-piece Army Defenders set One 100-piece Mighty Machines set The winners were chosen randomly among the the over 3,000 people who entered...

Following the success of its recent simultaneous launch of two building toy sets, Click-A-Brick has announced another simultaneous release. This time, the company will release three sets at the same time later this month. These next three sets will all have 30 pieces. The first of the sets, Dino Pals, will have a dinosaur theme to it and will feature red, orange and white bricks. It will be able to make a Carnotaurus, Triceratops, Pteranodon, and Plesiosaur. Featuring bricks of light green, dark green and brown, the second set, Rainforest...

Click-A-Brick, an independent educational toy company, applauds the findings of a recent report by the Council of Canadian Academies. Part of the research undertaken stresses the importance of building fundamental STEM skills in early childhood. The report states that STEM skills have been advanced as central to innovation and productivity growth, which are in turn necessary for improving standards of living. It found that those skills open doors to a range of education and employment options. By increasing the quality and level of fundamental skills for STEM among all learners...