The wooden building blocks from HABA
Building for every age
Building blocks from HABA are as individual and unique as your little ones. The versatile building block sets are perfect for building, stacking, fitting together, and discovering. And it's so exciting to watch how the little ones develop while playing with wooden building blocks! In infancy it's still about the first discovery of colors and shapes, shortly after stacked and crafted with intense concentration, with all their might:
Wooden building blocks for babies
With all their senses, your child explores the blocks from about six months of age. How do they taste, what sounds do they make? How do they look? Shape, size, weight – everything is examined closely. And suddenly your child notices: the block stays upright when I put it on the floor! Our tip: Simple natural blocks are particularly suitable for the first discoveries. Their natural material, wood, is already easy for the smallest to grasp. So they can fully focus on the discovering the shapes of the blocks concentrate.
Wooden building blocks from 12 months
To their heart's content, your child tries out what they can do with the blocks. They are shaken, knocked against each other and rubbed together. Playfully, your child slowly learns to build: place one block on the floor and hold a second on top of it without letting go. Simple shapes appeal to the youngest one's exploratory instinct and promote important skills such as fine motor skills. What children like: smashing blocks together – that sounds exciting and isgood for hand-eye coordination!
Wooden building blocks from age 2
Your child now builds piles with the blocks and forms long rows, both horizontally and vertically. In "air building" it assembles the blocks in the air with both hands. By letting go and focused observation of the blocks your child masters the next building steps. Another developmental step: Children perceive the blocks as independent objects and relate them to others.
Wooden building blocks for ages 3 and up
With enthusiasm, your child begins to new creations to build: When stacking, first towers and houses emerge. At first crooked and wobbly, they grow upwards and become stable structures. Your child builds the first imaginative buildings with the blocks, later with gaps and bridges. By ensuring balance in their construction, it grasps structural stability.Inventiveness and creativity.
5 inspiring games with wooden building blocks
Whether sophisticated balancing acts with colorful building blocks, building your own dream cities with bridges and skyscrapers, or creative role-playing with playmates – building blocks offer so much room for individual play! Read here how building blocks transform the children's room into a colorful play world every day:
1. First experiences in city building
True stacking artists build increasingly higher and larger with cubes, cylinders and cuboids, and they think further or sometimes outside the box. With imaginative construction sets and buildings they discover the third dimension and new play spaces. Perhaps they have already visited large cities that they now recreate in the children's room? Their imagination knows no bounds!
2. Test balance with building blocks
Children have a lot of fun doing this, stacking building blocks, panels and slats as high as possible. It's not so easy, though, to keep the ingenious constructions balanced. It gets especially exciting when they experiment with cube scales and try to keep them balanced. If they are already a bit more experienced, they can work with advanced scales with balls – but be careful, the risk of wobbling is very high! Thus, in their own bedroom, children playfully get to know basic physical laws.
First wobbly stacking attempts
Simple cube scale
Advanced Ball Scale
3. Experiences in bridge building
When children start playing with building blocks, bridges are also among their first constructions. At first the building blocks are placed on top of each other in a compact construction without gaps in a row. Later the children become bolder, leave gaps between the blocks. And finally the masterful gap-building to an exciting challenge. With skill and a delicate touch, artful bridges with gaps, which even toy cars can later drive across.
Compact bridge design
Bridge with initial gaps
Masterful bridge with many gaps
4. Stairs & roofs are formed from building blocks
Children mainly build with building blocks what they know from their everyday lives, for example Stairs and roofs. In our range there are stair blocks, rods and slats, with which they can build up step by step in multi-storey building projects. Also indispensable when playing with building blocks are the triangular blocks, which complete the classic triangular roof in children's house building.
5. Talking about the children's structures
Young architects learn to build independently through free play. Their natural curiosity and creativity guide them. Sometimes building also gives rise to a role play, which you as parents can join. You can accompany your child verbally while building and talk with them about their ideas. Celebrate their successes with them, the first house, the tower that is stable, and thus create a constructive interaction. This also strengthens their self-confidence for new building attempts.
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Quality
Wood has been a permanent part of our range since 1938. We ensure the quality of all woods we process through strict production and material control standards ensure. Since 2010 our commitment has been confirmed by the PEFC label, which stands for sustainable forestry. By purchasing HABA building blocks you make your children happy and make an important contribution to the sustainable improvement of worldwide forest use and care.
Safety
Besides various external testing procedures our products are subject to a strict internal quality assurance. For wooden toys, only solvent-free paints and water-based stains are used. The toys are resistant to sweat and saliva. Therefore, our toys can be safely explored with the mouth at any time Further tests ensure that no choking hazard due to small parts.
Hygiene
Our HABA building blocks have to withstand a lot and prove they are intact before they go into the toy box. So that playing is fun every day and safe and hygienic for the little ones they are, they are thoroughly robust and easy to care for. For cleaning simply dampen a cloth with warm water, wipe the blocks with it and let them dry. It's so quick that the little ones don't even notice that the blocks were briefly gone!
