Sesame Street K'Nex and 400 Pieces Tub

I had the opportunity to review Sesame Street K’nex. Sesame Street is HUGE in my house. There are four Sesame Street K’nex sets in all. The set we received featured Elmo as a ice cream truck driver. He is made of K’nex pieces – three per character. There is the head, body w/arms and bottom w/feet.
The set is designed for children between the ages of 2 and 5.
Building the truck was fun and relatively easy. We followed the directions, my oldest (5 years old) handing me pieces. It was easy to do and I think my grandson will soon be able to build these.
The four Sesame Street Neighborhood Collection Building Sets are:
Ice Cream Truck – Comes with Elmo. Truck has wheels to be pushed and rolled. ($9.99)
Police Station Building Set – comes with Elmo and Ernie ($19.99)
1-2-3 Brownstone Building Set – comes with Elmo and Cookie Monster ($19.99)
Police Car Building Set – Comes with Elmo. Car has wheels to be pushed and rolled.($9.99)
The pieces are big and chunky, similar to Duplo Legos. This reduces the chance that a small child can swallow a piece.
Overall, I love everything about this set. I do want to see more sets with more characters, like the Count, Bert, Big Bird and more. I think the character sizes are great and Sesame Street really makes an impact on young children.
WIN – WIN – WIN
Right now there is a Make a K’NEXion video contest going on. All you have to do is make a video that your child’s K’nex building skills and features your child building with select K’NEX products. Be creative, use your imagination, construct your own story – as long as the video features building with K’NEX the possibilities are endless. Official rules are available at Knex.com.
The ten best videos will be featured on KNEX.com and one winning video will receive $1,000 worth of K’NEX toys.
Contest Dates: November 4th – December 7th, 2009
WIN – WIN – WIN
Right now there is a Make a K’NEXion video contest going on. All you have to do is make a video that your child’s K’nex building skills and features your child building with select K’NEX products. Be creative, use your imagination, construct your own story – as long as the video features building with K’NEX the possibilities are endless. Official rules are available at Knex.com.
The ten best videos will be featured on KNEX.com and one winning video will receive $1,000 worth of K’NEX toys.
Contest Dates: November 4th – December 7th, 2009
To enter: Post the video on your own blog or website and submit the link along with a completed entry form (available at Knex.com) to knexvideocontest@knex.com. You can also submit a video if you do not own a website or blog, just visit the KNEX website for full details.
I would love to see your entries too! If you enter, let me know where to look!
The Mom Buzz received the Police Station Building Set from Team Mom to review. This is my opinion and thoughts on the products. To learn about other Buzzworthy Products and enter Hot Contests, be sure to look through the rest of the site.

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I also received a K’NEX 400 piece tub free of charge from TeamMom to review. I’ve never purchased K’NEX so it was totally new to me and my family. My son loves to put things together and create new items. He was excited when he saw what it was and wanted to build something immediately especially since the idea book that is included had a model of a truck on it. The booklet actually contains step by step instructions for 20 different models.

e truck we made, is that the wheels actually rolled like a real toy car. It wasn’t just a model that would just sit on a shelf, he could continue his imaginative play (another skill) with it also. K’NEX provides wheels on cars, propellers on airplanes, the ferris wheel and merry-go-round models spin. So after they build they can play with what they built.
Great thing too is that if you already have Lego’s or other K’NEX sets you can combine them and expand on your building system.
Clean is easy. Although the pieces are small (age range 7 and up) clean up is easy. The storage tub contains 400 pieces but can hold so many more. In fact, if you start a project but don’t get to finish it in one sitting, simply place it in the tub along with all the other pieces. There’s plenty of room for it all. And if your child wants to take it over a friends house to play with, just drop it all back in the tub and snap on the top and it’s ready to go!
The suggested retail price is $20.99 but for 400 pieces that’s a pretty great deal. It’s available at Target, Wal-Mart and Toys “R” us. If you’d like more information check out KNEX.com oh and while you are there make sure you check out the Make a K’NEXion video contest.

*Disclaimer – Product was provided free of charge by TeamMom. This review is my honest opinion of this product.