Cool Construction & Building Blocks: Crafting Creative Toys & Amazing Games
C o nstruction B u i lding Blocks C r a f t i n g C r eative Toys Amazing Games Rebecca Felix
Contents Bricks Blocks and Beams 4 Making Blocks and Construction Sets 6 Become a Toy Maker 8 Materials 10 LEGO Desktop 12 Legendary LEGOs 16 Mini Magnetic Blocks 18 Transparent Blocks 21 Jumbo 2-D Bricks 26 Jumbo 2 3-D LEGO Mural 28 3-D LEG Glossary 31 Glossar Websites 31 Wee Index 32 In
Bricks Blocks a nd Beams Have you ever connected toy blocks to construct a building Or created a castle out of cards or a tower out of bricks With construction toys the sky is the limit And the best part The structures you make can be disassembled and rebuilt again and again 4
People have played with construction toys for r r a long time Children have used blocks to build houses towers bridges and more for hundreds of years In the early 1900s toy companies started making more complicated building toys ERECTOR sets Tinker Toys Lincoln Logs and d d LEGOs became very popular Today these toys still inspire kids and adults around the h he world to build amazing toy structures Many Materials Building toys have been made of many materials throughout history These include wood stone metal cardboard resin and plastic 5
