k'nex - for budding engineers *giveaway* (reviews)

12/14/2009

k'nex - for budding engineers giveaway

**Giveaway is now closed! Congratulations to Brandon, comment #57! Enjoy!!**

My engineer of a husband was just about as excited as the kids when we opened a big box to reveal two boxes of K'NEX! My kids love building and creating with blocks and Legos and such, but we've never tried out K'NEX before because I thought my kids were too young!

My son was screaming in excitement when he saw the K'NEX Sesame Street Collection Building Set, designed for ages 2-5. It lets children build and then play with their favorite Sesame Street friends, including Elmo, Cookie Monster and Ernie. We got this Sesame Street Police Car Building Set featuring ELMO, much to my son's delight. His big sisters helped him put it together. The pieces were easy for little hands to handle, being nice and big. And the directions were clear enough for my 5-year-old to follow with minimal questions. He LOVED it! He loved it so much that he insisted on taking it into the bath with him and took a nap with it. Really.

While he played with his police car, the rest of us tore into the K'NEX 400 piece tub. The girls poured over the instruction book that has ideas for 20 different models and decided they wanted to build the swing. We all worked together and pretty soon we had this:

Next, they decided to make the most complicated model in the book. Of course! So we tackled the Ferris Wheel with amazing results:

We loved K'NEX! When we opened the tub up, my 6-year-old daughter said, "Yuck! Boy toys!" But she changed her tune quickly and had a great time playing! K'NEX are fabulous for developing fine motor school, creativity and problem solving. And everything is interchangeable with Legos and other K'NEX sets, so you can really expand your building possibilities with these K'NEX sets!

During the months of November and December, K'NEX (a Philly company!) is donating 10% of online sales on knex.com to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. How awesome is that?

K'NEX is offering a lucky Girlymama reader a K'NEX 400 Piece Tub AND a set from the Sesame Street Neighborhood Collection!! Here's how to enter:

1. Contest ends Friday, December 18.
2. Entry #1: Leave a comment just saying you want to win.
3. Entry #2: Leave a SEPARATE comment telling me what Sesame Street character is your favorite.
4. Entry #3: Leave another comment telling me in what way you promoted this contest (i.e., posting about it on your blog or Facebook, Tweeting about it, emailing friends, and/or subscribe to my feed by email or in a reader).
5. Winners will be selected by Random.org, announced back here on this post, and notified via email with further instructions.

Good luck!!

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