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10%-35% off All Block Kits
Thru Fri., Feb. 3rd!
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Finding Stuff
 The best way to navigate this site is by using the menu on the left. Scroll down and see all the places you can go before going any further.  Click on the words or arrowhead to go there. This menu will appear on every page and there is little need to use the "back" button to move from place to place.

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 Weekly Sale Specials  
 Every week we also randomly put one or two of our kits on special sale to give you a nice discount.  There is no pattern to this.  We just look at what we have a lot of in-stock and try to bring the numbers in line with our expectations for the rest of the year.  This is a nice bonus if you happen to be looking for what is on sale.  sale specials: About Children's Blocks

song at 7

(The Yellow Peril)


American made Hard Maple Blocks
for Homes and Individuals

     Our little geniuses tell us you can't have too many blocks. Our kits for individuals are balanced to give your little genius the blocks we think are appropriate for various ages.  Using Open Stock and Booster Kits, it's easy to customize any order.  We also supply American made Alphabet blocks in an extended range of languages. 

Lily at 2

(The Party of No)

Rubberwood 3 tiny
33 Blocks for
$34.35
Economy Blocks and
Block Toys


The blocks we manufacture aren't for everyone.  If you are looking for low price, you can't beat these economy blocks and other toys made of Rubberwood.  Toys from China, Thailand, and other Asian Basin countries combine American design with the economies of cheap labor and recycled lumber and materials.  At these prices, you can't go wrong. Rubberwood is derived from exhausted latex plantations and this material is then recycled into useful products.
Rubberwood #5 tiny
150  Blocks
$167.17
 

Booster Kits and Open Stock
     You can buy one piece or any combination of pieces you like by shopping on our Open Stock Pages.  On these pages we have listed for sale all of the 95 different pieces and shapes that we manufacture - many of them shapes that are not included in our regular kits. 

      If you want to add a special Booster Kit like our Road Kit or Fortress Kit, you can buy a small set of blocks on our Booster Kits page.  Among the most popular Booster kits are our Rectangle Kits.  These allow you to bulk up an existing kit by adding just the large rectangles that always run out first when children become more advanced in their building.

School Blocks
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Other Blocks Toys
     Here, you will find a number of other toys that children use like blocks.  These include some toys for little tykes, stackable cubes, economy alphabet blocks, small block carts and the like.  We have huge cardboard blocks, Nesting Blocks, Farm Blocks, Castle Blocks and a variety of other Blocks Toys at a rock bottom price. 

 Block Projects
 Here are some examples of things children can make with Building Blocks.  Kids may only stack blocks and make roads for some years, but about 7 years old they begin to build fancier structures and by 8 or 9 they can copy representations of real buildings.  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. 

Arc de Triomphe
 

 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 handling and shipping. 

Freee Scrap wooden blocks
How to make wooden blocks

 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. 

 
Toy Blocks 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. 

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."   

Pictures of Block Buildings
Pictures of 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.  

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.

Onion and Salsa Recipes
Famous Architects

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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Hebron, Indiana 46341
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