Wooden Construction Kits + Marble Runs for Kids
A construction kit combines building to instructions with thinking things through yourself: plan, build, test, improve. This collection brings together systems for children who already build with purpose, mainly from Kraul, Bauspiel, TIMBERIX and CUBORO, plus Wooden Story and GRAPAT.
Cable cars and experiments from Kraul
Kraul makes cable cars from wood and string, from the Mini-Seilbahn with one car to the Grosse Pendelseilbahn with two gondolas and a top station. Supports, a pulley or the Grosse Seilbahn Winde let you extend the set-up, and the Seilflitzer comes with 10 m of string. The Flaschenzüge pulley experiment kit and the Flussrad water wheel are recommended from 10 years.
Marble runs from CUBORO
CUBORO is a marble run system made of wooden cubes with channels milled into them. To get started there is the Kugelbahn Junior with 40 or the Kugelbahn Standard with 50 elements, while the Jump, Kick and Wave sets expand the system. The CUBORO book of tips and tricks is available in German or English.
Plug-together system from TIMBERIX
With TIMBERIX, Brixis, Twister and Timber Bricks are slotted together. The START 40, 80 and 140 sets build on one another, PLUS 20 and PLUS 50 add to them, and WHEELS 4 brings axles with wheels.
You will find more rolling constructions under marble runs and open building material under wooden blocks. Why wood works so well for toys like these is explained in our article why wooden toys.
