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LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box 10698 Build Your Own Creative Toys, Kids Building Kit (790 Pieces)

Mindprint Rating

Tags

^21st Century Skills K-8 Game

Skills

Flexible Thinking Fine Motor Skills Organization Abstract Reasoning Visual Discrimination Spatial Perception

Mindprint Expert Review

Pros

  • This classic kit comes with traditional Lego bricks in 33 different colors and accessories that promote open-ended building.
  • Legos appeal to a broad age range, which makes them a fun family toy.

Considerations

  • Lego pieces are small, so for young children with fine motor weaknesses, it is best to try Lego Duplo blocks.
  • The smaller pieces can sometimes be hard to put together (or take apart) which can be frustrating for some children.

Mindprint Expert Review

This traditional Lego collection comes with bricks in 33 different colors as well as windows, doors, wheels and other accessories. Legos are a wonderful construction toy, encouraging creativity for all ages along with important cognitive skills including spatial perception, visual reasoning, fine motor skills and following directions. Children will develop their motor skills and patience as they fit the blocks together without them falling apart. As they build structures of increasing complexity, children will develop their visual reasoning and spatial perception skills. This classic kit is designed to inspire open-ended design and creativity. However, there are countless Lego sets that come with visual instructions, so children can learn to follow step-by-step visual directions. There are also sets with themes and characters to appeal to almost any child's interests. The relatively recent addition of Lego Friends is geared towards attracting girls to constructional activities. Younger children with weaker fine motor skills may find Lego Duplo blocks more manageable, as they are twice the size of traditional Legos.

Academic Benefits

Improves academic skills

  • Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
  • Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
  • Presents educational concepts accurately
  • Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
  • Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
  • Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
  • Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
  • Visually appealing to children in the target age range
  • Adults would enjoy playing with a child
  • For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
  • Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
  • Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
  • Student should be able to use independently after first use
  • Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
  • Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
  • Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
  • Can be fun as a single player game
  • Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
  • Well-made for the cost
  • For electronic games, can play without sound
  • For electronic games, allows user to save work
  • For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
  • Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
  • Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
  • Overall - Easy to use

Manufacturer Description

Unleash your kids' creativity with this building kit full of colorful toys. This 790 piece set contains a variety of colors and pieces for building anything from a toy scooter to a toy house. Kids can build and play for hours with 8 different types of toy windows and toy doors, 2 green baseplates and 6 toy tires and toy wheel rims. It won’t be long before kids are using this creative kit to build a castle or build a figure. The LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box is the perfect construction set to complement other LEGO sets or play with on its own!