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.

Those dreaded rainy day blues will be a thing of the past with a Lego building set. Too many kids plop down in front of the television for a steady diet of mind-numbing nonsense. A Lego set can offer much more creative entertainment for a child who complains of boredom.

There is no wrong in building something completely unrecognizable or creating something that has never been created before. In fact, there is nothing wrong with setting out to build an airplane only to realize it looks nothing like an airplane at all and thereby deeming it a spaceship carrying life from Mars. Kids have to try hard enough to get things right in the world. There shouldn't be a right way or wrong way to play with their toys.

The more your kids play with their Lego sets the more they start to develop a strong sense of personal independent thought. When they try something and it doesn't work out so well, they have the ability to change it up, try again, or decide that their mistake is the next great invention. With a good imagination a child can put together just about anything with a basic Lego building set and move on to greater challenges with one of the themed sets like Star Wars.

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. - 31409

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