CITIBLOCS Original Wooden Building Block Set - 300 Piece

by CITIBLOCS

Product Features

• Citiblocs are safe natural and green
• Made of light weight pine
• Handy for all ages
• No glue, no snaps, no small parts
• Age old proportions newly crafted in wood for all generations of builders

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 14.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00267SW9G
• Item model number: CTB300
• Manufacturer recommended age: 3 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,251 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

CitiBlocs for the classroom. These Unique Proportions enable kids to exercise a wide variety of skills with Citibloc play, math and measure, science and design, problem solving and physics. Build alone or in groups. Study art and architecture and history and design with these amazing blocs - From PreSchool to University These blocs are for everyone all of the time. From pre-school to elementary school to architecture students to corporate seminars, CITIBLOCS are an ideal educational toy for home, playgroups, teachers, principals, professors and parents. CITIBLOCS are suitable for all kinds of kids with all kinds of strengths and interests, facilitating social interaction as well as individual progress and play.The pleasure of accomplishment and success and discovery is inherent in CITIBLOC construction for builders of all ages – It’s all connected to the joy of creating all the time. And it’s just plain building fun.

Product Description

An extremely popular item, the 300 piece set is a hefty way to get the enthusiastic builder started building simple, medium-sized structures. Build low and wide, or stack them high and narrow. Whatever your preference, the Citiblocs 300 piece set will keep the enthusiastic builder flexing his or her imagination while developing fine motor skills. You can expand your building horizons by combining this set with additional sets including the 52, 100, 200, 500, 800 and even 1,000 piece sets! All Citiblocs Wooden Building Sets are compatible and interchangeable with each other. Citiblocs are 100% compatible with Kapla Building Blocks too! CITIBLOCS are made of light weight pine handy for all ages and for creative construction. CITIBLOCS for family play and for the classroom ! Build Cities and Towers as well as Trains and Trucks and Creatures and Cars! Build Anything with CITIBLOCS Gravity + Imagination + CITIBLOCS = Imaginative and Creative Fun! No glue - No snaps - No Small Parts - Its all about Dexterity and Focus and Innovation. Kids can exercise a wide variety of skills with unique CITIBLOCS - math and measure, science and design, problem solving and physics ! Build alone or in groups! From pre-school to elementary school to architecture students to corporate seminars, CITIBLOCS are an ideal educational toy for home, playgroups, teachers, principals, professors and parents. Reasoning, problem solving, cause and effect, engineering and improvising are all part of the building block experience. CITIBLOCS are suitable for all kinds of kids with all kinds of strengths and interests, facilitating social interaction as well as individual progress and play. The pleasure of accomplishment and success and discovery is inherent in CITIBLOC construction for builders of all ages-- build outside the box....enhance skill and awareness and understanding. It's all connected to the joy of creating all the time. AND It's just plain building fun.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Appeals to a variety of ages, December 26, 2009

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Deanna Dennis (Stacy, MN) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: CITIBLOCS Original Wooden Building Block Set - 300 Piece (Toy)

Ordered these for a Christmas gift. The 11-year old son and 5-year old daughter loved it, as well as both adult parents. Grandma enjoyed looking on as we variously competed and worked together on several projects. These are unfinished planks. I do not intend for my 2-year-old and infant to chew and/or suck on these, but you know how it goes... It is nice that I don't have to worry about chemical ingestion when the inevitable happens. My dogs are also partial to wood. One plank already has a couple teeth marks in it, but it did not splinter immediately or anything like that. I'm sure it would have been destroyed had we not been vigilant and caught the dog right away. The planks in our set were uniform. The planks fit exactly into the box, so you do need to put them away just so, but it is easy to tell if any of the 300 planks are missing without counting. With babies and dogs around, it gives me some peace of mind (kind of). I'm kind of a cheapskate, so I have put off a large wooden block purchase. I am glad I took the plunge, though, and would recommend it to any family for multigenerational fun.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2 Thumbs up for CitiBlocs, January 27, 2010

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Tblspoon Reviews (USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: CITIBLOCS Original Wooden Building Block Set - 300 Piece (Toy)

I have two sons ages 8 & 6. We discovered CitiBlocs during a visit to a hands on science museum where they had a room with a thousand + blocks for the kids and their parents to build with. It was a huge hit with my boys and clearly people of all ages were addicted to these seemingly mundane blocks. Had it not been for this experience I would have not thought to purchase them. My boys love to build and make things with their hands particularly with Legos. When we surprised them with their own set of CitiBlocs they were thrilled. I recommend buying a minimum of 300 blocks to start with especially if you have more than one child, this way they don't argue over whose building to destroy so they can build some more. I suspect we will be ordering more blocks in the future. The set comes with an instruction book offering some neat ideas of things to build. It really is amazing at all the different types of structures you can make from a simple, rectangular shaped piece of wood.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars great concept, poor execution, December 2, 2010

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M. Nolan - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: CITIBLOCS Original Wooden Building Block Set - 300 Piece (Toy)

I knew about Kapla blocks from the children's museum and wanted some for home, got seduced by the price of the citiblocs along with all the great reviews. I had high hopes for the blocks, but I have to say that I am very disappointed with the quality. First the accuracy is off, the length of the blocks does not match an integer number of widths which makes many of the designs unstable. In addition to this universal problem with the citiblocs, many of the blocks are warped, or twisted, or non-uniform thickness. To make large complex structures stable, you really need to sort the blocks which is not really a workable solution unless you toss the faulty blocks which kind of negates the price advantage. Made from a light pine, hard to imagine how these could not warp especially with humidity changes. I guess the Kapla "Marine pine" is more stable. I have not tried the Keva Maple blocks, but I would certainly expect the maple to be more stable than then light pine.