5 best Lego sets for every age

You can’t expect kids to build the Empire State Building at seven — but they can build a house. – JOE MENO, EDITOR OF BRICKJOURNAL

LEGO kits are a classic gift for a reason—building and imaginative play can always attract kids’ attention. Whether you’re shopping for a toddler’s first set of LEGOs or you have an older child who is looking for an extra challenge, there are plenty of options for everyone.

Here, the best LEGO sets for your child:

Best Legos to shop for every age group. LEGO gives you a hint about what to buy with each set. Each box has a recommended age group noted on it. “The age range is going to give you an idea of building competence,” Meno explained. “The younger a child is, the more unlikely they’ll be able to build something complex.”

Kids can enjoy sunny, summer-day fun with this LEGO City Ice-Cream Truck building set toy – designed to inspire creative, independent role-play based on everyday life. Building set for kids featuring a brightly colored ice-cream truck with ice-cream lady and skateboarder minifigures, plus a dog figure. Perfect for imaginative, independent play

Featuring a crooks’ monster truck with a magnetic lifting arm, 2 LEGO City TV series characters, and much more. Featuring a crooks’ monster truck with magnetic arm, a toy bank building with magnetic safe, a police surveillance van and motorbike, plus police hero Tom Bennett and crook Big Betty Minifigures.

Kids construct 6 very different places to live, then get creative and build their own dream home, With unlimited imaginative play and free-building fun, anything is possible with this versatile toy. This 270-piece set builds into 6 places to live: a family home, a lighthouse, an igloo, a castle, a small house, and a windmill. As kids progress to making their own creations.

Introduce toddlers to their ABC with this alphabet bricks learning toy, this versatile gift for kids inspires creative building, imaginative play and alphabet learning. Loading and unloading the truck with 26 toddler-friendly bricks – displaying all the letters of the English alphabet – a boy, girl and adorable teddy bear are here to share imaginative role-play.

This 23-piece set does a lot of work. The rolling wheels of the train allow for movement and play. The numbers let you work on counting. And a boy, a girl and a cat jump off an accompanying pretend story. You can use the decorated bricks to teach your child about numbers and counting.

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