A toy for generations (Lego in General)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Lego in General
Date:	18/12/02 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: fun, encorages manual dexterity, lasts forever

Disadvantages: none

Stuck for a pressie to buy a child?.
Why not buy some Lego/Duplo.
If a child already has a set it doeasn't matter more lego will compliment it.

Lego has been around since I was a baby starting in a carpenters shop in Denmark. In 1949 plastic bricks were produced the forerunner of Lego and in 1954, (the year I was born) the name Lego was registered LEGO name derived from Danish Leg GOdt play well.

Lego has developed a lot from the simple sets when I was a child to magnificent sets enabling a child to build all his/her dreams.

Kits to build house, cars, farms, zoos, playgrounds, trains, roads, and many more. LEGO produces Duplo a building brick set for small fingers suitable for children 2 upwards.

These are bricks we use at work, finding them good to encourage manual dexterity fairly easy to put together. In good bright colours, and a variety of shapes and designs.

The next stage of smaller bricks suitable for a 5 year old to construct many a building and lose themselves in imagination.

A child needs a fair amount of dexterity to put these together and some skill in linking them together to build objects, but that comes with practice and imagination.

Many a child has spent a day engrossed in Lego building castles, forts and houses encaptured in their world of construction and make believe.

I shall certainly be buying some for Baby Adrian (my new grand child) at some point.

Lego bricks come in red, green, blue, grey, white bright attractive colours they cost from about £5 for a tiny set upwards. They seem to last forever well for ages anyway.
They are made of a strong plastic. Will survive several children playing with them and passing them on to others when they are grown out of them.

The official Webb site is worth a look.

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