Fisher Price has come out with a new building set called Trio. We got a chance recently to test drive a "starter set." Comprised of clickable bricks, sticks and panels the starter set also comes with a car, a little person, a tree shape, some triangle roof shapes and so on. Quite handy is the storage bin with a lid that can double as a building base. I'll be honest - any Mom's feet would be grateful to not be tripping over the bits of a building set. Yay storage bin!
I love toys that encourage creating and imagining and Daniel has returned to the Trio set countless times. I can see a whole "city" he built on the lid sitting over in the corner as I type this. The starter set is listed as being for 3-5 year olds. One thing I would encourage is strategically planning your Trio playtime. The click action building does take some getting used to and I encourage Daniel to play with the Trio set when he is fresh. Once he starts getting tired, his frustration level can build.
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I love creating delicious Play-doh meals and toilet paper people with my little nephew, Micah! He would love this!! Thanks for the great giveaway!
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We love to build with legos.
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We have built a many lego town and other fun things with Legos. With three boys its hard not too!
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Hmm... well, dress-up is a favorite around here, and I can't tell you how many times we've "made" our costumes or parts of them - even just paper, tape, crayons and scissors can come up with some fun costumes. Granted, they don't last beyond one or two play sessions, but that's usually ok. The creating was the fun part!
My son loves sticks and small branches. We go fishing with them, trim grass, have sword fights, you name it.
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I play with playdoh with my niece and nephew - who doesn't love that stuff? *lol*
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We don't do it enough but going outside table and play with playdoh1
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We play "grocery store" -we use play money, have a cash register etc.
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We play games and they love playing with playdoh
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we like to take long walks or bike rides to gather "treasures" 4 crafts...we use flowers leaves sticks rocks, anything nature offers us birdson@roadrunner.com
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Right now it is making up stories with our animal playset. I featured you on Contesting Monday!
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right now it is making up our own songs
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My kids are grown and gone but I like to play fun games with my grandson, these include memory games, puzzles and all types of learning games. You can make a lesson out of any fun thing. Plus Legos.
Even my grown boys are partial to Legos
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I love to take my kids to the lake and spend the day with them fishing and enjoying peace and quiet with them and discussing life with them.
We like to gather things from nature when we go on walks, then we use them in our craft projects.
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As a family we build Lego skyscrapers every night before bed.
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We play with the big play blocks and see who can build the bigest tower! Thanks!
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my kids LOVE dress-up and baby dolls. I recently found lincoln logs for them and can't wait to see what they think of those!
My son loves to get out measuring cups and pour water back and forth between bowls, cups, whatever!
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We love to work with sticker books-- we put them on everything! momconnection@yahoo.com
the kids love to play with playdoh and the boys love their legos
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We build forts and/or tunnels for my son to play in. He is an active 17 month old.
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With my little one, I like to string beads onto pipe cleaners - great for hand-eye coordination - and we love to do crafts in general (including painting).
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We go outside and gather pine cones, leaves, twigs and anything else that looks interestion. We go back inside and make decorations for whatever season is coming up. This is what they do for Christmas gifts for Papa and Buddy.
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My daughter loves to "cook" for me with dirt. :)
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My son just asked for these for his birthday. My favorite creative thing to do with the boys is gathering boxes and making things, like boats or rocket ships. My son likes making flags to hang on them and we take trips or have sleep overs in them.
My daugther and I love playing dress up.
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My DD is a fan of Legos, she can spend a long time enjoying them. We have seen these and would love to give them a try :)
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We love shaving cream! We paint with it, make patterned paper with it, use it in our sensory tub..did I mention we love it?
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Our favorite thing is building castles in the sand.
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My favorite thing to do with my kiddos is play-doh! They love it!
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We love to make our own edible Play-doh, when we are done, we eat our creations. my son eats most of it before making something fully:)
I keep a small tote bag in the car full of Legos so my daughter and I can build while waiting in the car pool line at preschool.
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We enjoy Lego building sets at our house. Thanks for a great giveaway.
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The most creative plaything that I love to do with my kids is to acutally make our own playdough and design different type of items such as houses or cars. It is a great project to sit down with my kids and enjoy spending time together.
Thanks for a great giveaway :)
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For the summer, playing in the water table was the favorite. Dirt and sticks are also big.
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I think our favorite creative play thing is play doh. But we are big painting fans too!
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My daughter got a marble race set for her four year birthday in June and she, my 19 mo. son and I play with it for about an hour every day. It's really fun to build tracks and watching the marbles drop.
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Playing play-doh or paper and crayons!
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Play doh!
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My daughter and I have great fun building all sorts of things with her set of wooden blocks.
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My daughter and I love to play blocks and giant monster. I build towers and she knocks down the towers.
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We enjoy playing "kitchen center." My daughter cooks up all sorts of delish foods for me! Thanks for the giveaway!
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We color together! Thanks!
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I like to play blocks and legos with my boys and play-doh with my girl.
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