Flair Sticklebricks

When I was in primary school I used to love playing with stickle bricks, building different things but I had not seen them for years so I thought they didn't do them anymore until I was looking through the Argos to see what I could buy the twins for their birthday and there they were, the big kid in me went out and bought them, not sure if it was more for me or the twins though!! ~~~~~ Contents ~~~~~ The stickle bricks came in a bright orange plastic box with a bright green lid and blue handle. Inside the box there are 100 pieces of the stickle bricks in various shapes, sizes and colours including 4 hands, 2 hats, 3 eyes and 4 different ...  Read the complete review

Stickle Bricks Now call me a mean mummy, but when my 2 year-old sits down for a Stickle-Brick session I am likely to start acting like a big bully and push her off so I can have them all to myself! In fact, when my little girl was given her first ever bucket of Stickle Bricks (present from Nana last Christmas), it was her dad and I that spent an hour kneeling on the living room floor constructing wonderful edifices such as pagodas (me) and breweries (daddy). Ahem. She was a wee bit too little then, at one and half, but she started really getting in the bricks a couple of months later. Stickle bricks are very brightly coloured plastic shapes and come ...  Read the complete review

There are all manner of kiddies building toys on the market and it feels like at one point or another my kids have had them, whether it be Lego, MegaBloks, Clemmy bricks.............one of the many varieties they've owned, and one I also played with as a child, is Stickle Bricks. Stickle Bricks are brightly coloured plastic shapes covered in lots of little spines, when 2 of the bricks are put together the spines interlock holding the bricks in place, generally they come in brightly coloured buckets complete with carry handle and lid which are great for storage and can usually hold more than the supplied contents. The individual contents itself can vary from ...  Read the complete review

Stickle Bricks in the UK are known as Bristle Blocks in the US, but here we call them Sabras (meaning a prickly pear - the fruit of a certain cactus which is soft and sweet on the inside, but thorny and sharp on the outside. Sabra is also the word we call a native born Israeli, because we too are thorny and sharp on the outside but soft and sweet on the inside). My three sabra children grew up with these bricks, and I'm sure that those of you with kids today are familiar with these, as well. But in case you aren't, I shall endevour to tell you more about them here. What are they like? Imagine, if you will, colourful pieces of plastic that has little nubs ...  Read the complete review

When i found out my newly turned 2 year old son had a bucket of stickle bricks for his birthday I think i was nearly as excited as he was! It was a bit of a slow grower for him, on the day he was not really interested, prefering to play with those other classics - the tea set and the trampoline, but once the birthday fuss and fun had dies down the stick bricks have been a consistant daily success with all the family. They are nice and chunky and easy for little hands to hold and put together due to the great spikes, you can stick any two pieces together anyhow, there is no lining up of the prongs to make them fit together, he can just shove them at each other ...  Read the complete review