Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Lego Building Set - A Fun, Educational Christmas Gift

By Ledley Withenshaw

There simply is no other toy around like the Lego building set. Most of us can remember our childhood moments that were centered around Lego building, constructing and knocking out only to build up once again. Anyone with a Lego building set had one of the best toys ever made and kids took full advantage of the hours of fun and creativity Legos offered.

What makes the Lego building set such a fantastic toy is that it knows no limitations. It challenges the mind, entices creativity, and offers the child a way to develop any kind of world he or she wants to live in for that day. It's a great tool for learning spatial relationships as well as a tool for understanding basic architecture.

A child can learn a lot with his or her time spent with a Lego building set. It creates a way to develop critical thinking skills as well as fostering imaginative creativity. You can start with a basic set or one of the themed sets. By putting together different models your child taps into his or her own natural abilities to learn by exploring and doing.

The development of manual dexterity, simple math concepts, and color schemes can help even very young children find new explorations awaiting them in their Lego box. Very young children can use the larger Lego blocks that remove the choking hazard while older children can create masterpieces down to the most finite detail with the regular Lego set.

Rainy day boredom does not need to plague even the most active child with a Lego building set. While other kids are zoned out in front of the TV on a rainy day, your child can be creating whole new worlds with fantastic inhabitants or building skyscrapers for their giant stuffed lizard to destroy.

Who wants to spend their time playing with a toy that has a lot of rules and only one "right" way to play? There aren't many kids who will find that fun. By removing the right and wrong principles from the play time, kids are free to explore and learn all on their own. There are plenty of right and wrong concepts for kids to learn outside of playtime. This is a toy that turns a mistake into a personal adventure.

With the success of the Lego building set, the company has released everything from toddler size Legos to the themed sets that give you everything you need to recreate space ship from Star Wars and fire trucks from hero sets. With the sets' abilities to encourage creative thinking while requiring basic critical thinking, this is the one toy that easily combines fun, learning, structure, and freedom all into one unique set. Who would have thought that a bunch of tiny connective building blocks could have such a huge impact?

If lego is not for you or your children then how about a Robotic dinosaur as a christmas present ? Kids love Dinosaurs so this might be a winning idea. Otherwise, what about a Clone trooper helmet with voice changing capability ? Anyone, young or old, who likes Star Wars will like to role play as a clone trooper in a clone war on some far flung planet.

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