The inventor and CEO of Smart Blocks Inc. is a mechanical engineer that comes from a family of educators with three masters degrees and a phd in education and 50 years of experience in the field of education and child development. An engineer, a school district superintendent, a teacher, and a school counselor were the core design and development team members for the Smarcks.
The concept of talking building blocks toys originated a few years ago when the inventor was sitting in his family room watching his children play (1, 2, and 5 years old at the time). Like most homes the family room was surrounded by talking educational toys; however, his children typically chose instead to play with their building blocks. All this money on electronic toys and they end up playing with blocks – that is when it all began …
Smarcks children’s blocks can be used for assembling endless creative structures and can be combined with other common building block sets. They have been designed, however, to interact with talking Smarcks so while your child’s attention is captivated with creativity they can be learning at the same time. There are 19 different talking Smart Blocks and the first one is included with the starter set. The Blue Color Block teaches about the color blue and good manners with rhymes and sound effects – just build, listen, and learn.
This Set Contains:
70 Non Talking Building Blocks
1 Talking Blue Color Block
Additional Talking Blocks can be purchased separately.
The Smarcks Starter Set comes in a large 15” x 13” x 7” polypropylene container filled with 70 children’s blocks which come in five different sizes. Each of these sizes have different educational shapes and numbers on the posts and come in all seven colors. Smarcks are full size children’s blocks that can be assembled with full size Mega Bloks and Lego Duplo blocks; however, Smarcks can only recognize other Smarcks blocks. There are no half size blocks.
My Review:
As a homeschool mom, I have found The Smarcks blocks to be one of the most brilliant learning products I have ever seen! My boys are both huge Lego fans and once the realized that the container of Smarcks were building blocks I couldn’t open the container quick enough for them! My 5 year old said to me, “these blocks are cool!”. Smarcks has a little something for every age group.
For my toddler she enjoyed snapping the blocks together and hearing the music they play. The size building blocks are perfect for her little hands.
My preschooler we listened to the colors, animals and the nursery rhymes and learned to count backwards!
While my kindergardner loved the spelling aspect of the Smarcks. For instance The Smarcks says the word than spells it. So my 5 year old followed it and now he has learned several new spelling words just by playing and learning at the same time!
This product has so much to offer whether it be a child that attends school or is homeschooled, I love how children can learn while they are playing and that’s what is achieved with this product!
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The Smarcks 70 Piece Building Blocks can be purchased directly off their web-site for $29.95. Additional talking blocks can be purchased in a 3 pack for $19.95.
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This was not a paid post and honest opinions were used. The opinions are solely my own may vary from others. Thank you to Smarcks (Smart Building Blocks) who supplied product to review and the giveaway.
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