MEGA BLOKS Build 'n Learn Table toy building set with 30 big building blocks and 1 rolling vehicle BLOKS Fisher Price Building Toy ABC Blocks, ABC Learning Train Learning Toy for Toddlers 1-3

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Storage possibilities: As parents ourselves, we're fans of tables where the bricks can be contained and hidden out of sight whether in bins, drawers or under-lid compartments. This great gift for a 1- or 2-year-old comes with 44 Mega Bloks, including some with letters and numbers printed on them and one that's a little vehicle.

Toy coverage and many of parenting product reviews are overseen by Rachel Rothman, chief technologist and executive technical director. Kids in Kindergarten and older will be more interested in the smaller Lego that let them build more complicated structures. The parenting and product pros at our Good Housekeeping Institute Parenting Lab test some 500 toys over the course of each year to include in our toy roundups as well as our annual Best Toy Awards and Parenting Awards. If you're looking to keep two kids occupied building together, we like this colorful, affordable choice.There are many STEM skills kids learn through play with bricks and other construction toys, including problem-solving and critical thinking. Plastic looks cheaper but then again, it's very easy to clean and you know it will hold up to some rough play. We check the age grading, size, weight and materials of each table and layer in our own user reviews while checking online reviews as well. The Lego side has four baseplates in bright colors and the train side features a landscape of trees and a lake that kids can wind their train through.

We've seen three and even four kids using this at the same time, making it great for large families or playdates. We've seen people get tricked by tops that they think work as baseplates for their favorite bricks when they do not.Note that, despite some of the brand's marketing photography, this tabletop is not compatible with Duplo blocks, just the small Lego bricks. We love that it comes with 195 bricks, looks good and is an affordable way to encourage building for a child age 3 or older. Having storage for your kids' Lego play sets is key, but what we find to be most beneficial — as parents, toy pros and play advocates — are Lego tables that encourage your child to build and display their creations while also keeping stray bricks off the floor. We looked at 15 Lego table options and tested seven of them to assess size, material and value when deciding which ones merited a spot on our list.