These (31) durable, solid, incredibly smooth, colorful, made in Germany, wooden building blocks, themed as a cute cat and dog, are the three (3) dimensional foundational building blocks to develop our children’s’ hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, spatial awareness and reasoning. These simple blocks are powerful learning tools. Haba blocks help to develop our children’s’ creativity, assist in their efforts at problem solving and engineering skills, build on their critical thinking skills, and help them to develop social competence (got to share). Haba blocks allow children to build, build, build, using the cat and dog theme as their background. The characters keep our children interested and enthused. Wondering where is that cat and where is that dog in all those wooden blocks, of different shapes and sizes. These blocks help our children to be more creative, block by block, encouraging creativity and stimulating their imagination, repeatedly. Our children use their hands in coordination with what they see. This makes them think. The combinations can be very colorful, based on the block’s colors and order of placement. This taxes the thought processes and coordination skills. Their creations are only limited by their imagination, at that moment in time. The blocks have a fantastic finish, which on one hand is durable, on the other delicate. The blocks are not to be immersed in water and no chemicals to use to clean, not even baby wipes, as the ingredients might affect the water-based finish, such as softening up the finish causing them to become tacky. The cleaning suggestion is a warm damp rag that has as its solution a water and vinegar essence (germ killer) mix. We are talking just a few drops in a quart of water kind of mix This is premium priced, compared to simple plastic/rubber blocks. These are made from solid beech wood. Something that may have been around 50+ years ago but is a rarity today. Also, there is a purpose to this, it’s to challenge the mind carefully, logically, and methodically. Yes, we would select these colorful, fun, entertaining, and mind challenging blocks again, and we have, but different theme… Within reason, we try to present to our children, everything that assists in their development, as it’s a big competitive world out there. We hope our thoughts assisted in any decision.
