StevieB
Established Member
Slightly esoteric heading but let me explain!
As a child I had much fun with meccano, both plastic and later metal. I also had a set of wooden blocks and a friend had a type of wooden meccano, not by meccano by the same idea - wooden pieces with big plastic nuts and bolts. I have now been looking for something similar for my son - big pieces for little fingers etc. Making a set of building blocks is easy but can I find anything resembling a construction set? Not a chance. I can find Knex, and plastic meccano in tiny kits at extortionate prices to make a single specified model but no large free form set for imaginative play. The best I can come up with is a big build set from the early learning centre - but these are out of stock :roll:
So my question is - anyone know of anything like this? It doesn't have to be wooden, although if you know someone that supplies large plastic nuts and bolts I guess I could make wooden spars fairly easily. It has to be large pieces for a two and a half year old to use, and if possible expandable so it can be added to as he grows.
Eventually I am sure he will graduate to metal meccano and knex etc, and perhaps he should stick to duplo lego for a while, its just that he loves playing with my screwdriver etc and has his own plastic toolkit - it seems there is a space in the market for something to actually do with it though!
I know a few of the members have children, and several more young grandchildren, so figured it was worth a try in case anyone else had the same problem.
Cheers,
Steve.
As a child I had much fun with meccano, both plastic and later metal. I also had a set of wooden blocks and a friend had a type of wooden meccano, not by meccano by the same idea - wooden pieces with big plastic nuts and bolts. I have now been looking for something similar for my son - big pieces for little fingers etc. Making a set of building blocks is easy but can I find anything resembling a construction set? Not a chance. I can find Knex, and plastic meccano in tiny kits at extortionate prices to make a single specified model but no large free form set for imaginative play. The best I can come up with is a big build set from the early learning centre - but these are out of stock :roll:
So my question is - anyone know of anything like this? It doesn't have to be wooden, although if you know someone that supplies large plastic nuts and bolts I guess I could make wooden spars fairly easily. It has to be large pieces for a two and a half year old to use, and if possible expandable so it can be added to as he grows.
Eventually I am sure he will graduate to metal meccano and knex etc, and perhaps he should stick to duplo lego for a while, its just that he loves playing with my screwdriver etc and has his own plastic toolkit - it seems there is a space in the market for something to actually do with it though!
I know a few of the members have children, and several more young grandchildren, so figured it was worth a try in case anyone else had the same problem.
Cheers,
Steve.
