At what age are they ready for lego?

[AnyDream]

I like Trill's suggestion of leaving it at your dad's - L & granddad will have a great time building things together !

In the meantime, get your hands on some duplo. You might have seen my other thread about getting rid of the little people stuff - it's being moved along to my new little nieces - and I'm basically happy with that cos we have such a great set of duplo which all packs away into the one tub but is played with endlessly. Even the primary school aged kids who visit all play with it - there's something very appealing about those big blocks. You can buy a bulk lot on ebay and then just add a few small sets for variety pieces (vehicles, people, animals, etc).

[*TripleJ*]

the age reccomendation for duplo is 2 to 5 but DS is playing with it now and hes 9 and a half months he puts that in his mouth but its not quite small enough to swallow hes starting to get that it goes together but he cant quite work it out lol

so i'd say go for it if u want just supervise while hes using it

[SammyRo]

the age reccomendation for duplo is 2 to 5

Its funny, but I've noticed different sets of duplo with different ages - some say 1.5, others say 2 :shrug:

I love lego, so encourage anyone to buy her duplo/lego for her birthday, but def. agree that you need to clean it up as soon as they are finished playing! DD is getting really good at putting them away when I ask.

I've never thought to look at ebay - shall check it out. I picked up a good amount of duplo at a 2nd hand baby store for $5 which I thought was a bargain.

[Erin_25]

I would take anything I was offered of that value..it's great stuff.

My DS1 was offered an entire tub of Duplo, we love it...he's is also given the Thomas lego for Christmas each year by his Granny. He loves it & so does his unlce & father LOL! But the bits are not too tiny....might have to watch when DS2 starts to crawl.

But you can always put it away til later. Some lego parts are very small, I went to a wiggles concert in Brisbane with DS1 when he was not far off being 2 & we stayed at a friends place. They had downstairs area the kids could go to play whilst we were upstairs & there was massive tub of Lego with no lid down there....it stressed me the enitre time we stayed there but he didn't once put any in his mouth.