Sesame Street Builders – Team Mom

So I recently joined Team Mom, a group that does unpaid product reviews, and what was the first product shipped to me?  Sesame Street Builders by Knex.  Think Lego-like Sesame street characters, but better (meaning they actually look like their characters).  They come in a variety of characters – Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie and Oscar.  You KNOW which one I was hoping for, of course, but we ended up with Cookie Monster.  Can’t say my Oscar was disappointed, though.  One look at the box and he was hooked – and he doesn’t even watch Sesame Street yet.

I was a bit concerned that these would be too advanced for him (he’s just 14 months old, and the box says for age 2+).  No need for concern.  They’re large enough that I’m not worried about him swallowing them and also big enough for his little hands to grasp in a way that allows him to actually build things himself.  So he wasn’t able to actually fashion his Cookie Monster into any recognizable form (Nanny Norma had no problem with it, though).  He did love what he built, though, and even better, he loved taking it apart and putting it together again. Must say, though, that his favorite thing about this toy at first was the box.  He spent about an hour chewing on Cookie Monster’s eye and practicing placing the pieces back into the box.

I dragged Cookie Monster along with us to our doctors’ appointments last week, and it was a hit with other kids as well.  Well, I assume it was a hit since a little boy swiped it from Oscar and his mom took him away crying when he had to give it back to us.

September 30, 2008 - Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Team Mom Review | Team Mom