Lego and mega bloks are toys that give your children the ability to enjoy building things and being creative. First and foremost this means that they are beneficial for learning important skills that will serve them in life and for training their motor skills and coordination. This can even help to generate interest from a young age in certain careers for your children and mean that they might one day grow up to be engineers or designers. At the same time though it also makes them incredibly fun and versatile. Here we will look at just some of the benefits of Lego or mega bloks as toys.

They encourage imagination: Lego and mega bloks are highly creative and they give your children the ability to make whatever they can imagine. This encourages them to imagine things and to explore ideas and concepts, and this will encourage them to think creatively. Creative thinking has countless advantages and will often be the only way to solve a problem or to improve on an idea that already exists.

You can join in: It's great to join in playing with your children, but when they're playing some games it's practically impossible to understand what's going on, or you'll find you just don't have the energy. Lego however you probably grew up with and it's very simple to be able to follow what your children are doing (and actually quite fun to have a go too). This then means that you can bond with your children and enjoy something together with them, but it also means that you can then teach them and show them how to build effective towers or bridges.

It can be anything: If you give your child an Action Man or Barbie then they'll be very happy but at the end of the day you have given them only one gift. After the toy has been posed into every conceivable position it will likely lose its allure somewhat and be left on the floor. However with Lego or Mega Blocks there are infinite combinations and uses. This means that the gift will never be cast to one side or left on the shelf and means that you can rest assured that they haven't exhausted all the possibilities.

It can be added too: The other great thing about Lego or Mega Bloks is that they can be continuously added to. This means that your children can make a vast collection and that way increase the scope of what they can do. For instance using a huge Lego collection they would be able to build a Lego city or a huge robot which would teach them perseverance and ambition. At the same time it means you don't need to worry about buying something they already have - you know they already have it but that's a good thing, and it's a great fall back plan to add to the collection when you're stuck for inspiration.

Lego and Mega Bloks then have been around for decades for a reason. They are fun, educational, can be played alone or with others, and they're universal in their appeal. If you want to get a child a gift then - Lego is always a great choice.