Duplo/Mega Bloks

All the Ways to Play:

  1. Duplo Caring For Animals Farm Set:

    Duplos are great for working on fine motor skills and following directions! You can talk about and re-enact what farmers do on the farm: feeding horses, milking cows, and even cleaning up poop!
    Functional Language: farm, animals, farmer, feed, milk, clean, work

  2. Duplo Construction Set:

    Practice following directions and increasing visual motor skills by following the guide to build the construction vehicles. Then engage in open-ended play with your little one!
    Functional Language: stack, next, truck, vroom, beep

  3. Mega Bloks Activity Table:

    This table is a great option for younger toddlers who are interested in Mega Bloks. Along with building, you can use the table to motivate your little one to get into high kneeling or standing as they develop their gross motor skills.
    Functional Language: on, off, up, stack, build

  4. Mega Bloks First Builder Set:

    Great first building blocks for your little one. Work on pulling blocks apart as early as 9 months, then transition to stacking, building, and color sorting as they get older. They will grow with your baby!
    Functional Language: stack, apart, together, on, off, build, colors

  5. Duplo Classic Alphabet Town:

    With easy to hold and easy to stack pieces, this is a perfect first lego set for your little one. Work on stacking the pieces together to build the town. Build the bridge and take the car under it, talk about what stores are in the town you are building, etc. As your little one gets older, you can work on color recognition/sorting and letter recognition.
    Functional Language: build, stack, colors, town, numbers, on top, together, apart

  6. Duplo Classic Set:

    Test those imagination skills by building play scenes with your toddler. Build onto the cars or drive around the small village you create with your little one. Also a perfect first toy for color sorting!
    Functional Language: push, pull, stack, up, down, crash, colors, car, vroom, beep

  7. Duplo Growing Carrot:

    Large pieces and simple structure are a great introduction to building. Great for 15+ months to explore pushing together, pulling apart, and engaging in pretend play.
    Functional Language: carrot, push, pull, eat, yum, crunch, water, pour

  8. Mega Bloks Musical Alphabet Train:

    Perfect first lego set for your little one as they work on pulling blocks apart and pushing them back together with two hands. Listen to the music and sounds as you play together!
    Functional Language: train, choo-choo, stop, go

  9. Duplo Wild Animals:

    Make animals walk, jump, sleep, and dance to work on imitation skills. Then work on matching and fine motor skills by deconstructing the animal halves and letting your little one find the matching halves and fit them together.
    Functional Language: elephant, giraffe, animal, together, apart, dance, sleep, walk, jump

  10. Duplo Town Bus Ride:

    Introduce around 1.5 years to work on taking bus top on and off, and putting people in/taking them out of the bus. Then transition to open-ended play and following directions to build the bus as your little one gets older.
    Functional Language: bus, beep, in, out, stop, go, drive

  11. Duplo Building Base:

    Keep your Duplo base steady as your little one works on building and stacking, or take some legos in the car or to a restaurant and keep them contained while using this building plate.
    Functional Language: on, off, together, apart, build

  12. Duplo Visit The Vet Set:

    Engage in open-ended play with this vet set. Introduce animal sounds and work on imitation skills by moving the animals through different parts of the vet set and waiting for your little one to imitate you.
    Functional Language: dog, cat, animal sounds, on, off, clean, dirty

How to Set the Play Scene:

You have all your Duplo and Mega Bloks, but how do you set them up for play? Our Ways to Play Guides can help with that!

If your little one loves duplo & mega bloks, be sure to check out our blocks, magnatiles & tools pages, too!

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