Wooden Building Blocks
Including: alphabet blocks, toy ABC blocks by Uncle Goose

Physically, wooden toy blocks can build strength in hands and fingers whilst helping either the development of hand-eye coordination as a child attempts to build and stack the wooden block toys. Socially, the nature of wooden building blocks as a multi-part toy means they are good for interaction and learning to share amongst children, as well as encouraging imaginative and creative play. From an educational point of view, wooden toy blocks can be used to develop maths skills through adding and subtracting especially when toys blocks are of a uniform size. From a toddler upwards alphabet letter recognition and word forming can be encouraged with the use of wooden alphabet blocks which have abc etc. printed onto them. Creatively children can make new forms by stacking blocks to make new designs and structures. These classic and colourful wooden toys are available in both traditional and modern styles. Sort N Shake by Fiesta Crafts is a great set of wooden baby blocks that each make a different sound and have animal pictures and numbers printed on each block. Toddlers will love the wooden alphabet blocks (or abc wooden blocks) by I'm Toy which have letters and numbers printed on them with some blocks having special functions like a bell, rattle or mirror. For toddlers and pre-school children there are Plan Toys rubber wood Creative and 50 Blocks, which introduce more complex shapes and are better suited to creating more realistic building forms.