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Wooden
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Barclay
Blocks
!!Valentines
Sale!!
Thru Tuesday, Feb 9th
20-35% off
all Block Kits
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What We Sell
Our Indiana company
manufactures and sells classic, school size children's
unit blocks made of premium
American Rock Maple. Our blocks are laboratory
tested by independent laboratories for safety, and
satisfy the conditions of CPSC and the CPSIA. We make kits designed
for homes and individuals, and we make kits for
schools.
We also sell Booster Kits for
augmenting an existing kit and we sell Open Stock so you
can buy one piece at a time or whatever mix of blocks
you want to buy - including many special pieces that are
not found elsewhere. And we also sell Uncle Goose
Alphabet Blocks in 15 different languages. All of our
Unit Building Blocks
are the same scale - the 1-3/8 modulus typically found
in schools. Our Alphabet Blocks are 1-3/4 cubes. |

Building Blocks |
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Homes and
Individuals
Our kits for individuals
are balanced to give your little genius the blocks we think are
appropriate for various ages. These kits have a wide
range of pieces in order to build progressively more
complicated structures. We think that most people with
younger children will
benefit from buying a starter kit and then adding to it over the
years rather than trying to buy all of the necessary blocks
at the same time. It's particularly helpful if you
build with your children in order to understand their
challenges in building. We sell Booster Kits and Open Stock
so you can customize a kit. Almost any combination of
pieces is possible. We also supply American made
Alphabet blocks in an extended range of languages.
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School Kits
School Kits are quite large, but have an
attenuated range of shapes. Typically they have
been designed for pre-school, kindergarten, and first
grade - a bit on the young side for real builders.
We have listed most of the kits we find mentioned in
common texts about Block Play written by such authors as
Hirsch, Wellhousen and Kieff, and Newburger and Vaughan. We also sell bulk
packs of specific pieces if you need to augment a school
kit. If your school or state requires a specific
set, please contact us for a price.
We also supply American made Alphabet blocks in an
extended range of languages including Braille and
American Sign Language (ASL).
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Real Person
There's one, sure-fire way to get our
attention right away: to ask a question, to correct
a problem, or to clarify an issue - use e-mail
(contact).
But we realize there are pesky questions that
bother buyers and we want to answer them - so pick
up the phone and talk directly to the boss. We can't
always answer, but we will return your call. You can also order over
the phone if you are concerned about divulging your
credit card info.
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Block Projects
Here are
some examples of things children can make with Building
Blocks. If you have some pictures of things your
children have made, we'd love to add them to our gallery.
These projects may require some pieces from open stock, but
they are illustrative of the sorts of things that children
can do starting around five or six years old.
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Block Projects |

Weekly
Special |
Weekly Special
Every week we randomly put one or two of our
kits on special sale to give you a rock bottom price.
Check here to see our weekly specials.
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Free(ish) Scrap
20 Lb. Boxes of Scrap. The perfect thing
for art teachers, crafters, or others able to use random
cut-offs and scrap block pieces. This is clean, unsorted
scrap from manufacturing blocks and is the perfect thing
for teachers or others engaged in free form creations.
The material takes paint well. You pay for a small handling charge and shipping. |

Click here for our
free scrap |
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Make
Your Own
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Make Your Own Children's Blocks
Okay . . .
so you've been cluttering up the basement with that Radial
Arm Saw for years, and promising to make a Gazebo since
the "Evil Empire" speech. Fish or cut
bait. Here's how to make a set of unit blocks.
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Shipping Building Blocks
We ship most orders
via UPS the day they are received.
Expect to receive your blocks in five working days or less
in the Continental US.
We ship to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and most other
countries by Priority Mail
(10 days). We utilize Flat Rate shipping
whenever possible.
1-877-606-4374 (toll free)
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Catalog |
Wooden Blocks Catalog
Use this page to order our new catalog. This
can be obtained by filling out the form on the Catalog
Page. There is nothing in the catalog that is not
right here on the Internet . . and a great deal
here, that is not in the catalog. But for Internet
tyros, it sometimes helps to have some paper. And
a catalog is a great way to suggest an appropriate gift
to the "Grands." Regrettably, we cannot send catalogs
outside of North America. If you write to us,
however, we can sometimes be persuaded to reconsider. |
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Pictures
of Children's Block Projects
Some of my smaller friends provided
pictures of their favorite architecture credits.
These pictures can give you some idea of what can be
made with a set of blocks in creative hands. Be sure not to miss the "Ocarina Hall o' Fame"
or "Homage to Squid." (click right). |

Block Projects |
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Famous
Buildings |
Pictures of Famous
Buildings
Here are some pictures of
famous buildings for your builder to render in blocks
(click left). On these pages you will
find numerous pictures that can be copied for school reports and architectural projects.
These pictures are in the public domain. |
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Recipes
The days have passed when we
gave our wooden blocks away in used onion bags, but the
government now requires testing toys for lead and
phthalates and so we have discontinued the bags. Go here
to copy our bang-up recipe for Salsa or our Mango
Chutney. Got an condiment recipe we can use?
We'd like to hear about it. |

Recipes |
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Links |
Links
Here are some sites that feature
pictures of architects and architecture, other gift and
toy sites, and some sites devoted to early childhood
education. There are some amazing people on the
Internet making stuff. Be sure and visit here if
you like toys. |
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Copyright 2003 Barclay Wood Toys and
Blocks, Inc.
207 N. Main St., PO Box 819
Hebron, Indiana 46341
1-877-606-4374
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