LEGO DUPLO Sets for 2-Year-Olds: 12 Picks

Not sure which Duplo sets are already at home?

Plain bricks join whatever sits on the shelf, so this box can't clash with a set the child owns. With no model to follow, a tower, a house or a bed for a favorite doll all count as finished. The box itself then holds every set that comes later.

Letters and wheels share one toy here: an alphabet truck a toddler builds and steers across the living room rug.

Pushing it around is the main event, and the letter bricks come along on every trip. When you hum the ABC song slowly and pause on a letter, the game turns into a hunt through the bricks for that one.

Whatever rolls past the house, a garbage truck or the mail truck, is fair game for a toddler's next build with these Duplo vehicle bricks.

A lopsided bus counts as much as a neat one, and wheels turn every attempt into something to push. A row of finished rides in the hallway makes a traffic jam you can both honk at.

For a second birthday, this train puts Mickey and Minnie on a party ride the birthday child builds and pushes.

Long after the guests go home, it can circle the room so the celebration happens all over again. Who rides up front is their call, and it may change every lap.

Dropping things through gaps is a toddler habit this doghouse sorter is built around.

Each brick has an opening it fits, and turning the house over sends them all tumbling back out for another round. It suits a child just getting started with bricks, since the same pieces also stack into simple builds.

Lions and penguins make unlikely neighbors, so this set lets a toddler build a wild world where they share the floor.

Each family has grown-ups and little ones to match up, feed and march off to the water. Tucking the cubs and chicks in for the night can join their own bedtime routine.

Every grown-up in the house turns into a customer once a two-year-old starts serving pretend meals, and this set puts Bluey and Muffin in charge of the pizza.

The toddler builds the scene, then carries each order across the room. Place yours, ask for extra cheese and see what arrives.

A tractor to drive and a stall to shop at put a Peppa fan right inside the show.

Episodes they know by heart can be acted out, and the bricks give those games a place to happen. A teddy bear makes a patient first customer, happy to wait for a bag of pretend berries.

Tears at drop-off can become a short brick story later in the day, built with you and this feelings set.

One character can be sad to say goodbye and another glad at pickup, and the toddler decides which mood goes with each. A bright brick house where the whole cast meets again gives the story its happy ending.

Mickey fans can stack up his clubhouse brick by brick, with Minnie and Pluto as the figures who move in.

A toddler can walk the pair to the front door, tuck them inside and decide whether Pluto sleeps indoors or out in the yard. You get invited over as the guest, and Minnie decides where you sit.

Frozen songs on repeat at home make this set an easy match, since Elsa and Olaf come along as Duplo figures.

Loose bricks turn into whatever the story needs, a castle for Elsa one minute and a hiding spot for the snowman the next. Olaf waiting behind a brick wall for your knock is a game that can last all afternoon.

Roaring and chasing drive the play here, with Dinosaur Spidey-Rex to build and Green Goblin to run from.

Spidey and dinosaurs in one set cover two big toddler favorites at once, so the stomping starts as soon as the build is done. If quiet stacking is more their pace, a calmer theme will suit them better.