There are whole worlds to explore with LEGO® DUPLO®. The bright colors and large, easy-to-handle building bricks are perfect for toddlers aged 18 months and over. So, if you’re looking for a gift for a toddler or their next creative toy, here’s our handy list of new sets.
If your toddler has ever made you stop and stare at a construction site, then this is the set for them. Kids can manage their own building site, which includes three pairs of trucks: a loader toy with a tipping bucket that fills a dump truck with bricks, a digger and a tow truck with a rotating arm, or a scissor lift and a second tow truck with a smaller hook for lifting bricks. They’ll have hours of fun constructing their own narratives around the site and you can use it to teach problem solving, perseverance and fine motor skills along the way.
Let your toddlers become everyday heroes as they help patrol the traffic on a police motorcycle. They can practice fine motor skills while building the traffic lights, and driving the police officer around the cones will help develop their spatial awareness. And you can also use this set to teach them the basics of road safety as they recognize that the red light means stop and the green one means go.
Kids who get excited whenever a bright red fire truck whizzes by will love the cool fire truck in this set. There’s a burning log and this truck has a flexible hose that will let toddlers be the hero and put it out, even saving the little squirrel in the process. You can help teach emotional intelligence as they build empathy and what it means to be brave and do the right thing for others. And it’s also a great chance to practice their siren sound. Nee-naw!
Put your seatbelts on, our destination is creative playtime! This set features a variety of vehicular builds including a helicopter with a spinning rotor, a dump truck with a tipping bed, a fire truck toy with a hinged ladder and a small family car toy. Your toddlers can learn about making choices as they choose which set to build and then play out a variety of scenarios with each vehicle before putting their creativity into overdrive as they invent different scenarios and scenes.
Lots of kids have an instant affinity for animals and this set leans into that in the most adorable way. The set lets little builders construct an incredible eight different animals, including a dog, a cat, a bird, a rabbit, a mouse and a fish. Once each animal is built, you can use it to teach them about the way that animal moves or the sounds it makes, and if you’re preparing for a pet, you can teach them all about proper animal care. But it doesn’t all have to be teaching moments, and each one of these animals will allow hours of imaginative play.
An even bigger set for construction-obsessed kids offers creative toddlers the chance to build a bulldozer with a lifting bucket, a dump truck toy with a tipping action, a cement mixer with a rotating drum and a crane with movable arm and a hinged bucket. But the fun doesn’t end there. There is also a loading station that the trucks can rumble through and a bridge the vehicles can drive under. And to increase the role-playing potential, the set includes two figures that can drive, operate and direct the vehicles to help toddlers get the job done. Teach toddlers about the construction process, practice perseverance and, above all, have a lot of fun!
