Stuck for a pressie to buy a child? Why not buy some Lego/Duplo?
Lego has been around since I was a baby starting in a carpenters shop in Denmark. In 1949 plastic bricks were produced the forerunner of Lego and in 1954, (the year I was born) the name Lego was registered LEGO name derived from Danish Leg GOdt play well.
Lego has developed a lot from the simple sets when I was a child to magnificent sets enabling a child to build all his/her dreams.
Kits to build house, cars, farms, zoos, playgrounds, trains, roads, and many more. LEGO produces Duplo a building brick set for small fingers suitable for children 2 upwards.
These are bricks we use at work, finding them good to encourage manual dexterity fairly easy to put together. In good bright colours, and a variety of shapes and designs.
The next stage of smaller bricks suitable for a 5 year old to construct many a building and lose themselves in imagination.
A child needs a fair amount of dexterity to put these together and some skill in linking them together to build objects, but that comes with practice and imagination.
Many a child has spent a day engrossed in Lego building castles, forts and houses encaptured in their world of construction and make believe.
I shall certainly be buying some for Baby Adrian (my new grand child) at some point.
Lego bricks come in red, green, blue, grey, white bright attractive colours they cost from about £5 for a tiny set upwards. They seem to last forever well for ages anyway. They are made of a strong plastic. Will survive several children playing with them and passing them on to others when they are grown out of them.
The official Webb site is worth a look.
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I've got 3 kids and 3000 cubic metres of lego. If you kneel on it, it will cripple you. Had they dropped some on Hitler's bunker, the war would have been over in 1940.
mike081179 15.01.2003 11:09
Great op. I loved Lego when I was a kid, They will be around forever. - Mike
Bastien 05.01.2003 09:42
Please don't take my rating bad, it's just that I think that most of us already know what Lego is, so there's not much new in your opinion. I was expecting a bit more "experience", but that seeems hard as you still have to buy it for your grandchildren. I'm sure that once you've bought it you'll be able to improve your opinion a lot!
Advantages: almost infinite variety, excellent quality, very durable, years of play and then can be passed on, teach design, sense of space and shape, dexterity Disadvantages: none, unelss your child is not into LEGO
magdadh 05.03.2005 (12.04.2005)
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Advantages: durable, high quality, good value for money, fun, educational, encourage imagination and creativity Disadvantages: none other than slight pain experiences when you tread on the bricks with bare feet!
ilusvm 15.03.2005 (06.12.2008)
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Advantages: Colourful, bright, easy for small hands to manipulate Disadvantages: The size can be dangerous to the smaller children so suitable for 3 years plus
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