A US study from 2016 found that traditional children’s toys such as wooden puzzles, rubber blocks and shape-sorters may be more effective in increasing the quantity and quality of language in ...

That’s exactly what you can do with the cat sculptures made by the Hong Kong-based toy-brick-makers at JEKCA (“building blocks for kidults,” as the company describes itself).

Building toys as sculpture toys - Building blocks are not all about creating houses and cars. Like the artist Nathan Sawaya shows us with his majestic LEGO brick sculptures, blocks can be an ...

With this in mind, an Israel-based developer has designed Smart Bricks - a range of construction blocks that look and fit together like the classic children’s toy.

Toddlers who played with the brightly-coloured plastic blocks began to speak more quickly than others, a study found. Researchers from Washington University in Seattle studied 175 children aged ...

The Cobi "Boeing Starliner" toy is assembled from 227 blocks of similar in style to Lego bricks. The Polish kit includes blocks printed with markings and a page of decals to add authentic details ...