Shop Speechville Express Holiday Gift Connection Construction & Model Sets

"Playing with construction toys such as building blocks enables children to acquire an understanding of basic math skills and develop fine motor skills. While playing with construction toys, children learn categorization, sequencing, patterning, and quantifying, which help build a strong foundation for understanding math in the future." --from Amazon.com

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Blocks

Bristle Blocks 114-piece Set

Customer Review

My kids really like their bristle blocks. I like the bright colors and the different sizes. My 3 year old just likes to put the pieces together--it doesn't matter if it is anything or not. It is just interesting to him that they stick to each other at this point. I built a car for him--from that point on, he has been able to visualize different things--cars, buildings, yards, etc. and put them together. I think that these, blocks, gears, legos, lincoln logs, etc. are all very important to a child's development. These are lots of fun for a reasonable price.

Maxi Building Blocks- 36 pieces

Manufacturer Description

Features a variety of large building blocks made from soft plastic to create lots of giant constructions. The 36 piece set comes complete with a handy transparent backpack. Named "Best Toy of the Year" by Child Magazine, recipient of Oppenheim Gold Award, and "Best vacation Toy" by Dr. Toy.

200 Piece Mosaic Blocks

Manufacturer Description

This 200 piece real wood block set is a classic toy to treasure for many years of play. The vividly colored, differently shaped blocks truly have a mosaic appearance when grouped together, and present many possibilities for many levels of play. Younger children can learn categorization through sorting by color and shape. Older children can plan and build structures in an endless number of designs. There are 12 shapes of varying sizes, 7 bright colors, ready for a child's imagination.

60-piece Deluxe Wooden Standard Unit Blocks in a Wooden Storage Box

Manufacturer Description
Build a tower, a town or just about anything with these large solid-wood standard unit blocks! The 60 big, smooth-sanded sturdy blocks are naturally finished with a classic look for hours of classic fun. Handsome wooden storage crate makes clean up and storage easy!

Melissa & Doug Exclusive Deluxe 130 Piece Wooden Block Set

Manufacturer Description
By fostering creativity, stimulating spatial skills and teaching basic math concepts, block sets are certainly an essential element of any classroom or home. Based around the standard unit block size (1 3/8" x 2 ?" x 5 ?"), this finely crafted 130-piece Standard Unit Block Set is an unequalled tool for teaching structural design, sequential and organizations skills, social interaction as well as imaginative play. This exclusive set features a large variety of sizes and shapes including arches, columns, squares, rectangles, triangles, cylinders, circles, as well as basic, half and double unit blocks. Precisely measured and cut hardwood pieces, with smooth sanded edges and corners. SKILL SETS: Basic math concepts, Creativity, Hands-on experience, Imaginative play, Organizational skills, Physical development, Sequential skills, Sharing, Social interaction, Spatial relations, Structural design.

Building Bonanza

Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Set

Manufacturer Description

Gear up for hours of colorful astion with this 150-piece set that enables children to create hundreds of three-dimensional construction possibilities. Set features plastic gears, connectors and interlocking bases packaged in a giant storage tub with an Activity Guide.

Tinker Toy Classic Junior Building Set

Manufacturer Description

Tinker Toy - - a Classic since 1913! Connect the wooden wheel-like spool with any of the multiple dowels and create abstract forms and shapes. Your imagination is the only thing needed to create and build with these sets. Hours of fun

Lego Stories and Action Bioncle Visoraks Gate

Editorial Review
The world of LEGO’s Bionicle series never ceases to get more complex and more bizarre. This enormous 325-piece set depicts the scene at Visorak’s gate and features several key members of the Toa Hordika crew: Vakama, Nokama, Onewa, Matau, Whenua, and Nuju as well as seven Visorak fighters. There are huge boulders for the foes to hurl at one another, rappelling lines for characters to use while swinging into action, and a pair of pincers at the front gate for the bad guy Visoraks to capture the good guy Toa Hordikas. As is always the case with LEGO, the set is infinitely adaptable to other LEGO products, meaning you can feel free to plug in knights, astronauts, athletes or whatever other LEGO characters you want. We liked the imagination of this toy and the fact that one needn’t be steeped in Bionicle back story to appreciate it. --Charlie Williams

Lego Stories and Themes Knight's Kingdom Castle of Morcia Playset

Editorial Review
The Castle of Morcia was a nice enough place when it was presided over by a kind and benevolent king but it just hasnt been the same since Vladek, the evil scorpion emblazoned villain of LEGOs medieval storyline, took over the place. Now its up to the assortment of good knights to recapture the castle. This set of building bricks from LEGO features numerous tunnels, secret passages, and traps. Also included are small figures of the King of Morcia and all five knights. Of course since this is a LEGO set, the pieces are infinitely interchangeable, so long after youve followed the prescribed illustrated step-by-step plan to construct the castle, youre free to imagine and build an infinite variety of new configurations. --Charlie Williams

Lego Stories & Themes Harry Potter Rescue from the Merpeople (4762)

Manufacturer Description

Help the Champions perform the Second Task and and save Ron and Hermione from the Merpeople! Guarded by a fearsome merman, Ron and Herimone are fast asleep at the bottom of the lake. Can Harry and the shark-headed Viktor Krum rescue them? A secret lever will wake them up, but watch out for the grindylows! Includes Harry, Ron, Hermione, shark-headed Viktor, merman and more! Ages 6+. 175 pieces.

Lego Make & Create Designer Prehistoric Creatures (4507)

Manufacturer Description

Using this set's collection of unique bricks and elements, children can build and re-build an entire species of prehistoric dinosaurs and creatures. The set's flagship model, an amazing T-Rex with moveable jaw, head and tail, is just one of the amazing designs children can bring to life.

Lego Duplo 140 Pc Bulk Tub

Editorial Review
So, it doesn’t have the most exciting name, but this is still an outstanding set of DUPLO blocks for young builders. What makes the 140-piece set so entertaining is the variety of the blocks and colors, allowing kids to build anything they can imagine. Everything is stored in a nice big plastic container, with plenty of extra room and a lid that fits on nice and tight.

Pop-Onz Building System: Pop 'n Twirl Building Table with exclusive bonus

Editorial Review
Limitless creative possibilities exist with this fun and accessible building toy, designed for younger children. There are lots of soft, bumpy surfaces on this play table which you can attach the included brightly colored dog, bird, crocodile, and monkey. To make things more fun, there are also multi-colored building blocks for the animals to roost on top of and a see-saw on which to position them. Attached to the table is a soft net pouch so the blocks can be easily stored when playtime is done. There are no batteries or shrill electronic sounds here; meaning Mom and Dad need never worry about battery replacement or annoying sounds.

K'nex

K'nex 50 Piece Building Model Set

Features:

• Contains 481 pieces
• Build more than 50 machines, creatures, rides, and more, or design your own
• Three building levels depending on your child's age and skill level
• Includes motor to set your models in motion
• Sturdy blue plastic carrying case

Kid K'nex Bucket of Buddies

From the Manufacturer
Bucket Of Buddies Make new pals with KID K'NEX Bucket of Buddies. With 50 building ideas and lots of cool personality parts, it's easy to create your very own colorful friends. New KID K'NEX tub with carry handle. Packed with 50 building ideas. Lots of KID K'NEX classic and special parts. Easy-snap fun! Ages 3-7.

Magnetix

Magnetix 70 Count Primary Magnetic Building Set

Manufacturer Description

The toy that reaches and empowers kids of all ages. Use your imagination and create countless shapes for endless hours of fun with this 70 piece magnetic rods and silver spheres set in bright primary colors.

100 Count Magnetix Case

Manufacturer Description

The toy that reaches and empowers kids of all ages. Use your imagination and create countless shapes for endless hours of fun with these new special pieces combined with our basic building pieces. This 100-piece combo set of magnetic squares, triangles, magnetic rods and silver spheres are available in translucent colors. A whole new building concept - Build bigger and stronger - link and lock the squares to your creations and add the magnetic rods for a whole new dimension of magnetic building.

Exclusive Magnetix 225 Count Collector's Case

Features:

Booklet with design ideas, including Eiffel Tower

Challenging for both kids and adults

Combines plastic shapes with opposite polarity magnets and steel balls

225-piece set of magnetic squares, triangles, magnetic rods and silver spheres 3D construction set makes over 500 designs