In the late 1800s, children had an assortment of treats and toys that kept them amused for hours. There were mechanical banks that gobbled change, china dolls with their own dishes and rocking horses ...

At first glance, Tegu blocks just look like slightly-fancy wooden blocks: unpainted, smooth with rounded edges, and each adorned with a little logo branded on a corner. There are four different shapes ...

Did you know one of your favourite toys as a child had a history worth hundreds of years? Building blocks have always played an important part in education, childhood development, and creative play ...

Victoria Coun. Geoff Young walks Waddington Alley, the last remaining stretch of city street paved with wooden blocks. The blocks are being refurbished in a painstaking project.DARREN STONE As pothole ...

STORY: Archeologists have uncovered more than 1,000 decorated stone blocks from the foundation of an 18th dynasty pharaonic queen's valley temple in Luxor. Queen Hatshepsut died in about 1458 B.C. and ...

Students try to create wooden toys at a study tour base in Yunhe, a county in Zhejiang province, in 2023. [Photo provided to China Daily] In Yunhe, a mountainous county in Zhejiang province, wooden ...

There's a red barn that sits in a field just off Arkansas 9 near the line separating Stone and Van Buren counties. Located in the Rushing community, it's owned by Rodney and Angalee Rushing and was ...

Rather than a mobile phone or other smart device, a simple set of building blocks could be the best gift you buy your young child this Christmas. When Amie Wong bought a set for her 17-month-old son ...

The video that captures the toppling of the world’s tallest tower made of wooden toy blocks was shared on Twitter by Guinness World Records. Most of us love to watch videos capturing the domino effect ...

Hands of a child learning about patterns of size and color with colorful wooden blocks. Source: myboys/Shutterstock Part of what makes us human is the need for our brains to search for meaning. Good ...