Its big, this farm is. (Lego 4665 Duplo: Big Farm)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Lego 4665 Duplo: Big Farm
Date:	18/10/08 (222 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: greast toy

Disadvantages: none

Do you want to play with my big farm? This duplo Lego toy was first available in 2005. There are many other farm theme duplo brick toys but this big farm has 72 pieces.

This toy is suitable for Your 2+ tot. Depending on the developmental stage of your child they will probably get enjoyment from this set until they age around 5 or 6 years old.
Let's go to the farm then. Empty all the pieces onto the floor this box contains lots of duplo farm animals a cow, sheep, pig, horse, cat, dog. Chicken
There are bricks shaped like food troughs for these animals to eat/drink from then there's Mr. Farmer his wife and child. There is a blue tractor that your child can construct and put the farmer in to drive. There are a few standard duplo bricks too
There are a couple of other tools a shovel to help shift the hay or the horse poo (use your imagination I used a brown brick).

Now to the farm building.
This is a lower barn with a loft there are 2 identical
Buildings that fit together with a base plate across the building with the lofts onto. This separates the buildings so the tractor can be driven between. The smaller duple farm 4972 is in fact one of these buildings with other items included.
There is a winch your child can fit in one of the loft spaces to make it east to put the hay bricks in the loft.
Hours of fun can be had playing with this duplo brick set suitable both for your child at home on his own or with his friends; it's an ideal toy for a play group/nursery

Your child will be learning as they play with this duplo set. They will be practicing fine and gross motor movements. Learning how to fit things together. While your child is playing with the animals they will learn a little about them. You can use this toy to help develop your child's language using the names of the animals, counting the animals; the bricks will be the start of learning math's numbers .and quantities. Playing with this farm will spark your child's imagination. Although your child will be fine playing with this toy on his own, do get down on the floor /sit at the table to play too it's really fun and your child will learn a lot from your play.
Lego duplo is one of the best toys around its durable should last many play hours and more you could pass it on or sell in fair condition. My gchildren still have some 30 year old duplo around that they play with.
Lego is a Danish company formed in 1932 Lego is two Danish words shortened words meaning play well; Duplo is a brick that is twice the size of a standard Lego brick and can be joined to Lego bricksDuplo bricks are a hard plastic bricks that fit into each other in the same way as Lego. They are bright colours red, green, and blue, yellow, black. These bricks are larger than Lego, about 4cm for a small brick with 4 nobly bits to join them together 8cm for a large one with 8 joining knobbly bits. These pieces are easy to stick together once your child lines them up correctly. There are some Duplo bricks that have wheels so your child can build a vehicle.
Duplo bricks are easy to clean just wash them. Duplo was first made in 1969 since then many new bricks and sets added to the range. Go to
http://www.lego.com/eng/preschool/duplo.asp if you wish to see the full range

The lego card boxes soon break unless you have a careful child ,so get a big plastic tub to put the bricks in paste/stick the picture on to the box so you know whats inside . . Standing on a duplo brick is not quite as painful as standing on a standard Lego brick .

Would I recommend this toy YES?
I am not sure which off line shops stock this but on line the Lego shop sell it for £39.99p

Summary: A duplo brick farm for 2 to 5 year olds