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Loving Building Blocks?

Autism Can Do

Autism Can Do

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Reimiel loves to play with building blocks ever since he was a child. This activity enables him to improve his motor and cognitive skills.
He has lots of animal collections built with building blocks. But now it bores him.

So to challenge him, we bought him a 3585-piece mini block set which is a model of the iconic Eiffel Tower.

 
That is an amazing amount of patience, persistence, detail and perfection! Great job Reimiel! That sure would help develop our son's fine motor skills, if he attempted such building projects too.
 
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I really like Lego. I am mostly buying the Super Mario and Harry Potter sets. I have the Chamber of Secrets castle and the Polyjuice set and need Fluffy’s Magical Encounter and also have the Privet Drive, Room of Requirement, and Potions Class sets. With Lego Mario, I have all of the main sets for the first three waves and the Koopa Clown Car from wave four. I also have three of the 3 in 1 Creator sets and a lot of Lego Dimensions builds and mini figures.
 
I used to love playing with Lincoln Logs. I had more than one set so that I could create great big mansions or layout an entire floorplan of a house, with fencing all around. It was great fun.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
I used to love playing with Lincoln Logs. I had more than one set so that I could create great big mansions or layout an entire floorplan of a house, with fencing all around. It was great fun.
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I had a small set that let me build a cabin with either one large room or two equally smaller rooms and I used it as a home for this tiny Smurfette figure we had in the house. I also had Tinkertoys that I enjoyed playing with and I lost quite a few pieces and some of them broke near the slit on the ends that held flat pieces but I still could sort of use them. Lego were my preferred building toy though as I’d make dolls from them using some Duplo face pieces. We also had this neat book that had building ideas for Lego pieces that had no words or instructions and I learned how to create a swing set for the mini figures using the old style bricks and how to make a candle in a candle holder. There was also this motorized windmill that looked really cool.
 
1ForAll said:
That is an amazing amount of patience, persistence, detail and perfection! Great job Reimiel! That sure would help develop our son's fine motor skills, if he attempted such building projects too.
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Thank you. Your son can start small projects as Reimiel does. He started with small animals having less than 30 pieces for blocks. I am pretty your son will get interested.
 
Captain Jigglypuff said:
I really like Lego. I am mostly buying the Super Mario and Harry Potter sets. I have the Chamber of Secrets castle and the Polyjuice set and need Fluffy’s Magical Encounter and also have the Privet Drive, Room of Requirement, and Potions Class sets. With Lego Mario, I have all of the main sets for the first three waves and the Koopa Clown Car from wave four. I also have three of the 3 in 1 Creator sets and a lot of Lego Dimensions builds and mini figures.
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Wow! You have an impressive Harry Potter and Super Mario Lego collection sets. I wonder how your display setup looks like. I can only imagine. Very cool!
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
I used to love playing with Lincoln Logs. I had more than one set so that I could create great big mansions or layout an entire floorplan of a house, with fencing all around. It was great fun.
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Wow! This is my first time hearing about Lincoln Logs so I looked it up and I am impressed. Do they lock up in place like Lego? I even saw a big cabin made of several sets of these in YouTube
 
Captain Jigglypuff said:
I had a small set that let me build a cabin with either one large room or two equally smaller rooms and I used it as a home for this tiny Smurfette figure we had in the house. I also had Tinkertoys that I enjoyed playing with and I lost quite a few pieces and some of them broke near the slit on the ends that held flat pieces but I still could sort of use them. Lego were my preferred building toy though as I’d make dolls from them using some Duplo face pieces. We also had this neat book that had building ideas for Lego pieces that had no words or instructions and I learned how to create a swing set for the mini figures using the old style bricks and how to make a candle in a candle holder. There was also this motorized windmill that looked really cool.
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I got to say, you got a massive collection of creative toys. I wish I have that when I was a kid. I will let Reimiel know about the Lincoln Logs and see if he wants it.
 
I'm a big fan of Lego, and I have a ton of it.

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My dad saw me with a Lego set and was starting to get on my case about and telling me I they were only meant for kids and I told him that adults play with Lego now and there were sets for adults which he then said, “Yeah right.” I then showed him the Lego shop page for the Creator Piano and the recommended age which I think surprised him so much that he never mentioned the subject again. There are quite a few sets that I wish I could afford and buy like the Piano and the NES and TV set.
 
Autism Can Do said:
Reimiel loves to play with building blocks ever since he was a child. This activity enables him to improve his motor and cognitive skills.
He has lots of animal collections built with building blocks. But now it bores him.

So to challenge him, we bought him a 3585-piece mini block set which is a model of the iconic Eiffel Tower.

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I have LEGO that I’ve built but I don’t have much space to display the finished product.
 
Captain Jigglypuff said:
My dad saw me with a Lego set and was starting to get on my case about and telling me I they were only meant for kids and I told him that adults play with Lego now and there were sets for adults which he then said, “Yeah right.” I then showed him the Lego shop page for the Creator Piano and the recommended age which I think surprised him so much that he never mentioned the subject again. There are quite a few sets that I wish I could afford and buy like the Piano and the NES and TV set.
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What?! I am 46 and I wanted to have a Lego Technic Lamborghini Sian. And I am sure my Reimiel would want one too! But it is too expensive for me to get.
 
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