Green Toys has done it again. This under-$25 set of "My First Blocks" from Green Toys - makers of some of our other favorite stuff, including the world's best recycled plastic tea set - are chunky but hollow, making them lightweight and giving them built-in handles all the way around for little hands.

Recommended for kids ages six months to three years by the company, we'd bump it up to a year and call it good. Any kid who enjoys combining blocks with other play items like Z does would get use from these well beyond that upper limit. We also appreciate that this set is of moderate size, for those of us who already have plenty of toys, but no oversized-Lego-style locking blocks for toddlers.


Is it just me, or are those solar panels?

Pictured at top with Zonk, aka "blanket monkey," a Super Zero doll by All New Materials, makes of the equally awesome Deglingos line and truly brilliant Woodours.

In accordance with our Keep No Stuff policy, we aren't keeping the blocks. We donated to charity last year to pick up the Super Zero, which Z fell in love and selected as a Christmas gift after we included it in our 2009 Soft Toy Gift Guide.