Building With Strictly Briks Makes It Fun To Make A Mess

I received the products mentioned below in exchange for this post. All views and opinions are my own. 

If there's one thing kids love to do, it's create fantastic messes. But it's not just the mess - it's the creativity that comes before the mess that really gets them excited.

The Original BRIK Buster, a tower-building and destruction game from Strictly Briks, cleverly taps into those desires. Kids (and adults, because this game is fun for everyone) build a tower with brightly colored bricks. Then, they take turns trying to knock bricks out of the tower with a plastic hammer without causing the whole structure to tumble.

They found the enclosed instructions were very easy to read, and my 7-year-old and 10-year-old worked together to construct the tower without much guidance from me. They sorted the colors and got the columns snapped together easily. The Brix themselves are sturdy and well-made. Within 10 minutes, the tower was assembled (my daughter's a bit of a perfectionist, so it took a bit longer than the instructions said it would).

The rules for playing and winning the Brik Buster game were easy to understand and they encouraged the kids to play again and again. As a matter of fact, after the first play-through, the kids got busy rebuilding the tower and invited the grown-ups to join in. My daughter loved the vibrant colors and the easy set-up, and my son enjoyed the excitement of waiting for the tower to fall down.

We did find it was easier to set up on a hard surface. A coffee table worked just fine.

The Starter Set of Strictly Briks has been a lifesaver for this mom of two kids with a three-year age gap. At this stage in their lives, there's not much they agree on. But when I suggest they go play with their Briks, they run right upstairs and play for hours. What I like about the Briks is that they're easy to snap together and are just the right size for kids who are still working on fine motor skills.

The bright colors and variety of shapes are a big hit in our house, and I love that the kids have enough to share so that they can work together or separately.

How does your child play with construction toy sets? Do they build them up to knock them down?