LEGO® is the ultimate creative toy for children. The big brick range with LEGO® DUPLO® is ideal for preschool children, whilst the LEGO® Junior range can be used as a build-as-you-go or build to design. With LEGO® toys, your little one can literally build anything. SHOP LEGO® DUPLO® ► SHOP LEGO® JUNIORS ► SHOP ALL LEGO® ► LEGO® is the ultimate creative toy for children. LEGO® DUPLO® is the ideal creative learning toy for your child from the age of 1 ½ to 5, designed to boost their imagination letting them explore stacking, big bricks, bright colours and fun shapes. My First Range ► LEGO® Junior has been designed for children aged 4 to 7 years old, easy to build, safe and a core part of your child’s development. Playing with LEGO® really boosts your child’s development, from logic to cognitive skills as well as becoming an excellent decision maker. The classic toy that has been popular for decades, LEGO® is on every child’s toy list.
Encourage your child’s creative and imagination skills when playing with different LEGO® sets, letting them build whatever they dream up. LEGO® COLOURING & ACTIVITY SHEETS Encourage your child’s creativity and keep them entertained with our fantastic LEGO® DUPLO® themed colouring and activity sheets. Colouring in Police Station AVAILABLE IN SELECTED STORES BABY STEPS (UP TO 2 YEARS) The first weeks and months of a baby’s life are truly magical. From first smiles, to first steps and first words, babies are constantly learning and developing with the help of their parents and those around them. One of the most important ways a child develops is through play. Play is essentially a child’s job, and is where they learn everything from social skills to refining motor skills to negotiation and of course development of their imagination. From around 18 months, you can begin to use LEGO® DUPLO® bricks with your child. Before long, your child will have developed their fine motor skills enough to do some basic stacking without any help.
Play tip: As well as showing them how to stack, you can use DUPLO® to talk to your child about colours, practice animal names and even getting them to help pack away will help with their development. ENGAGING IMAGINATIONS (2 YEARS) By now your child is really starting to grow up – they have development imaginations, and love to engage with other people. Around now, your child will start to mimic everyday activities through play – for example going shopping, feeding a baby doll or doing the washing up. In doing this, children are starting to make sense of the big wide world around them. At this point, your child will likely begin building small towers with LEGO® DUPLO® bricks (and will probably knock them over immediately, so that they can start over again!) In repeating this, your child is learning that “practice makes perfect”, which in turn will lead to more difficult and creative building as well as knowledge of colours and shapes. Play tip: Continue to make use of your LEGO® DUPLO® animals by creating stories and talking about the noises they make, where they live and the food they eat.
LITTLE PEOPLE (3 YEARS) Your child is now becoming their own little person, with the ability to question and discuss their own needs and wishes. Language will be developing at an ever increasing rate, meaning less frustration and emotional outbursts as they can communicate much better. Play at this age is still hugely important, although they will need less involvement from you at this stage, but praise and encouragement can help make everything seem more exciting and worth learning about. At this stage, although LEGO® DUPLO® bricks and animals will still be an important part of your child’s play pattern, imaginary play and role playing will likely firm favourites. Don’t therefore be surprised if you overhear some funny conversations between DUPLO® figures along the way! Play tip: Tap into the love of role-playing and pick a DUPLO® figure to act out scenarios with – maybe they can go shopping with your child’s DUPLO® figure? Or have a tea party, or even visit a zoo?
UNTAMED CURIOSITY (4 YEARS) A 4 year old is full of curiosity, and will ask questions constantly about the world and everything in it! This is their way of finding out about the world, and learning how things work. (And you’re likely to hear some spectacular questions that leave you baffled!) Four year olds are much more socially advanced, and love playing with friends. This is where they will truly come into their own in terms of creative building using their LEGO® DUPLO®. And, because each LEGO® DUPLO® set comes with ideas to help get you started, you should have no problem getting going! Play tip: Why not try mixing LEGO® DUPLO® sets to truly spark some imaginary play? What happens, for example, when a superhero rides the number train to the farm? Or when a dog decides to drive the train for a day?We're sorry, the page you requested was not found. You may wish to try again using one of the links below: Back to Previous Page Go to the Oracle Public Cloud Homepage
Integrated Cloud Applications & Platform ServicesAn image of the past (Picture: Winenot69) Remember getting your red basket and doing a supermarket sweep in that stationery warehouse? Coming away with some random book stand or Parker Pen you didn’t really want or need, but would definitely make sure you did all your homework this year? These days most people probably get their school supplies in Tesco or Asda, or Paperchase for those of a more bourgeois disposition. That’s part of the reason why Staples is the latest high street name to go out of business in the UK. MORE: Shops should stay open on Boxing Day and retail workers don’t need your pity Office superstore no more (Picture: Rex) It has more than 100 shops in the UK, but they won’t be branded Staples anymore after the American company which owns it has sold it to Hilco for a ‘nominal sum’. Some of the shops may still stay open under a different name, so at the moment it’s not clear what will happen to more than 1,100 staff who work there.