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These blocks let grandchildren build their own modern marvels
Education experts, occupational therapists, and kindergarten teachers have all praised Dado Cubes for boosting motor skills, stimulating critical thinking, and encouraging creativity. We can recommend them for an additional feature: pure fun. Grandchildren, 3 years and older, love using these open-ended, modernized building blocks to invent the 3-D structures they envision, or to just improvise as they build. The set contains ten colorful cubes that are tapered in size, and have slits, which fit into one another to connect the cubes allowing them to become mighty towers, and horizontal or cantilevered structures. Dado Cubes are one of those unassuming toy-box staples that are perfect to have around — when your grandchildren want to build a hotel for her Polly Pocket figures, or a garage for his Tonka trucks. Who knows, it might inspire them to design the real things later on in life.
Price: $27.50
For ages: 3 and older
Available at: Fatbraintoys.com
