Children love to build and Mega Bloks are great for young builders. It's colorful pieces and easy to assemble parts make this toy a big hit. A great toy to help develop creativity while enriching critical thinking. Playing with this toy naturally reinforces Math concepts such as colors, counting and size.

1967, Montreal, CanadaMega Brands / Founded

Some Mega Bloks sets are being made out of sugarcane-derived polyethylene. Mattel is incorporating biobased resins in its Mega Bloks toy line. Three building sets for preschool-age children will use blocks made from sugarcane-based polyethylene.

10 awesome ideas to play with Megabloks

1. Grasping for babies. You can introduce Megabloks even to babies over 10 months, once they start grabbing things.
2. Stacking.
3. Color/ Shape Matching and Sorting.
4. Puzzles.
5. Counting and Sequencing.
6. Building blocks.
7. Pretend play.
8. Alphabet matching and phonics.

motor skills and hand-eye coordination, • spatial reasoning, • cognitive flexibility, • language skills, • a capacity for creative, divergent thinking, • social competence, and • engineering skills. There is also evidence that complex block-play is linked with higher mathematical achievement.

There is no denying that both brands have high-quality products. That's why they're the number 1 and number 2 in the brick building world - you don't get there by accident. But it's fair to say LEGO will always have an edge on build quality because they've been doing it for so long.

In 1967, Victor Bertrand and his wife Rita founded the company as Ritvik Holdings (RH). Ritvik is a portmanteau word based on a combination of Rita and Victor. At 1984 trade shows, Ritvik showed the Mega Bloks line in the US and Canada.

Montréal, Québec Mega Bloks, Inc. is a Canadian toy manufacturer that specializes in the production of construction toys similar to LEGO and Kre-O products and is headquartered in Montréal, Québec.

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Toy blocks (also building bricks, building blocks, or simply blocks) are wooden, plastic, or foam pieces of various shapes (cube, cylinder, arch etc.)

Toy blocks, also called “building blocks,” are solid shapes used for construction play. Some are simple planks made of wood. Others are fancier, like the interlocking bricks of plastic made by LEGO ® and MEGA Bloks®.

In Montessori homes, we love our wooden toys. Not all open-ended toys are made from natural materials. Legos, Duplos, and Mega Blocks are actually some of the best open-ended toys out there.

There is no denying that both brands have high-quality products. That's why they're the number 1 and number 2 in the brick building world - you don't get there by accident. But it's fair to say LEGO will always have an edge on build quality because they've been doing it for so long.

Blocks help children learn to take turns and share materials, develop new friendships, become self-reliant, increase attention span, cooperate with others, and develop self-esteem. - Kathleen Harris. Development in all areas. Block play requires fine and gross motor skills.

Physical development – Block play promotes the development of spatial awareness and develops hand-eye coordination as children reach for, lift, move and build with blocks, strengthening their fingers, hands and arms.

This is a great purchase if you want a less complex version of legos and always have trouble putting those pieces together without a manual. I love these blocks and relive my childhood days building them with my 4 year old.

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