Buying LEGO® for someone else

Loose bricks with no fixed model, so they click onto any DUPLO 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.

The Baby Pig House brings the animal side of Minecraft into LEGO bricks for a young player who keeps pigs in the game.

The Wolf Hero and Zombified Piglin minifigures give every story around the house a hero and a troublemaker. Once built, the house stays on a bookshelf between rounds of play.

LEGO's Minecraft Chicken Farm gives a seven-year-old Minecraft player a farm to guard against a Baby Zombie.

The Chicken Fan tends the farm while the Baby Zombie sneaks in, so chores turn into chases. That way the game's farm work becomes a story to act out by hand.

Minecraft's Steve and a Creeper come as LEGO figures in this taiga set for a young Minecraft player.

Both characters come straight from the game, so its showdowns play out by hand across the finished build. Between rounds, the scene rests on a desk beside the game controller.