Building on a larger educational scale with Triqo

A few days back there was a knock at the door from our VERY noisy postman, upon answering the door i got very excited at the outside of the box he was holding. I (i mean We) have been waiting for a delivery of new building material's to try out and this was it. If your a regular reader then you will know that we love building (with anything). When we first spotted Triqo I was really intrigued and Seth loved the idea of being able to make larger scale colourful buildings.

We had a brief play making small shapes so that we could get used to the pieces and the different ways we could attach them together but both me and Seth knew that we didn't what to waste our time making small things, this was a building material with pieces a lot larger than we are used to, we wanted to make something BIG!!!

Seth has come up with loads of ideas which i love, aiming high on the first build Seth wanted to build an arch for the doorway to his bedroom so we got to it sorting all the pieces in to colour order to make it easier for us. Seth struggled at first connecting the pieces but i have noticed that the more we have played with them the easier they connect, Seth's muscle condition doesn't help but he definitely found building with these more appealing than the smaller bricks that he is used to

It didn't take us long to make the arch, sadly there wasn't enough square pieces in this box but to be fair we did make it pretty big and there were loads of triangle pieces left in the box for us to make other things.

later in the afternoon we planned to visit Nanny and Grandad so we thought we would take our new toys to their house, The Triqo came out straight away and Seth informed me that next we would be making  a castle, Okay a castle that's doable, to be fair the pieces are so easy to stick together all you need is an imagination and the great colours and design mean everything you build looks great. We completed the castle in no time...

With plenty of time left to play we decided to make a parrot (for the 'pirates' of course) which I then wore on my shoulder while playing hide and seek, YAR!!

I've got a feeling that Triqo is going to be played with a lot, Seth is already talking about building things for the garden when the weather gets a little better. If I had lots more of this I would love to attempt a playhouse for the garden in the summer, the great thing about this is, its really doable and anyone could attempt a large build with this product with the greatest of ease, it was great to see Mrs M get involved too. 

I had some time to myself this morning so I had a play around with it. If you've got a good imagination and patience then there's no end to what you can achieve...

For a more in depth review of Triqo go to our review site blog: GiftsfromthePiratesReviews.

                                                                                   Until next time...

'Building a better future'

Much of the boys time at home is taken up by building, which as you can probably tell from many of the posts written, i love. Don't get me wrong I'm an action figure geek and i love a good Batman battle with Seth's figures but the variety of play that you get with Lego really cant be beat. The idea of having a toy that lets you just think of anything and then build it is genius and its obvious why Lego are such a HUGE company.

It's unsafe to leave Opeie playing with Lego alone because of the small parts, he's still into trying to put everything he finds in his mouth so the fact that Lego also make Duplo for younger children is great. We can happily leave Opeie playing alone briefly and not have to worry about him choking or getting pieces stuck up his nose etc. Also i think its great that you can use these on the large Lego base plates to build on.

Its not just Lego that we use in the house for our building, there's lots of different building materials for kids on the market these days. When i was younger i loved my Lego but i was also a big fan of Stickle bricks which i used to play with when having a break from the Lego.

While in TK Maxx last week when i wrote my post about Seth wanting to buy a present for Opeie to say sorry for busting his ball we also spotted these which i had to buy to try out as they reminded me of the Stickle bricks, their made by Fisher Price and their called Clipo. They are also great for Opeie to play with as the parts are large and the colours are great.

Recently in TK Maxx again we spotted these building blocks also which Seth has been loving at the moment. I think that because of his muscle condition he finds these easier to build with because of the size as he does tend to struggle with the smaller Lego pieces. Ive been on the look out for more of these blocks so expect another post about these very soon as i had a great find. These are also made by Fisher Price and are called Trio...

If anyone reading this knows of any other interesting building materials for children like this then please let me know. were always on the lookout for new things to try. Ive been meaning to try and get a picture of some interesting building pieces that Seth uses at school so if  do i will add them to this post i have no idea what their called.

Lego will always be our main building material due to the versatility of it and you can be sure to see many more posts about the things that we have built.