You cannot go wrong with K’Nex. They are suitable for both boys and girls, and they have sets starting for little ones at age 2 on up. My husband still plays with them so there is no limit! The possibilities are literally endless on the creations your child is able to make letting their imaginations soar!

We started buying Kid K’Nex for Ryan on his 3rd Birthday. Since then we have been adding on to his K’Nex and I think we actually own every Kid K’Nex set available. He still pulls out the box a couple time a week and it’s been 2 years. He is also still asking for additional K’Nex from Santa. He builds something new every time. Olivia is still a little young for some of the pieces included in his current sets, but she adores the Sesame Street set and has been walking around with “Melmo” (Elmo) ever since it arrived on our doorstep.

For your older child, ages 7 and up a good starter set would be the 400 Piece tub including 20 building ideas. Let me remind you though, these are ideas that they include which are fun, but you know what’s even better? Watching your child use his or her imagination to build the craziest helicopter out of K’Nex that you’ve ever seen and that look of pride on their face upon completion.

I’ll say it again, you just cannot go wrong with a set of K’Nex. K’Nex is that one of a kind toy that inpires creativity, builds self confidence and encourages interaction. I believe K’Nex will be that classic toy that our children our still buying for their children and so on.

To Buy:

The Neigborhood Collection Police Car building set is available from local retailers for 10.99. The 400 Piece Tub is available from local retailers for jus 21.99.

Contest!

Now you have the chance to win over $1,000 worth of K’NEX Toys and be featured on the KNEX.com web site.  How? Make a video and include select K’NEX products. The possibilities are endless. Construct your own story or showcase your child’s K’NEX building skills – use your imagination!

The 10 best videos will be featured on KNEX.com and the winning video will receive $1,000 worth of K’NEX Toys.

Go here for more information. Or head to the K’Nex website.

*The products for review were provided for me from Team Mom, however the opinion and words used are my own.

To me, Thomas and his friends of Sodor are simply classic. My brother used to have a Wooden Thomas the Train set that we put hours and hours of play time into. Now, 20 years later, Thomas is still around with even more to offer.

When the opportunity arose to review the Thomas Wooden Railway Talking Railway Series Farewell at the Docks set, I thought this would be the perfectlove Christmas gift for my son. Or even my son and daughter combined. I was going to test it out myself to share with you all until Christmas. Instead, I couldn’t stand the anticipation of them opening it and trying it themselves, so much to my kids’ enjoyment we put it together the night it arrived. They it. I decided what I am going to do instead is purchase more pieces and have a giant track set up around the Christmas Tree Christmas morning, courtesy of  Ol’ St. Nick.

On to our thoughts. First, I would like to say that this toy is not recommended for children under 3, and many of you know that my daughter is under 3. She is 17 months. We do not let her play with this unsupervised. When we are with her however she has just as much fun as Ryan does driving the trains around the track and filling and un-filling the “Party Supplies” or cargo.  Ryan has enjoyed creating several different shaped tracks and he loves using the crank on “Cranky” to load and unload the cargo which in this set happens to be “Party Supplies”.  As Thomas or Spencer travel past Cranky and Sir Topham Hatts’ station the child can push the button where Sir Topham Hatt will recognize each engine.

From a moms’ perspective I love that not only does this let their imaginations soar but it is excellent for the hand eye coordination. I watched Ryan piece together the tracks in a fashion that still makes it go around and watched Olivia put the cargo in the trailer just so. I love that it’s not too noisy and they use their own words when pretending to be one of trains. I love that it completely comes apart not only for the set to be put away nicely but for a fresh start the next day.

For more information you can view this set and other fabulous educational but fun toys at Learning Curve. There you will find further details in general and where to purchase.