Disclosure: I received this set to review. Opinions shared are mine.
Having a trio of cousins in one house means that there are some compromises to be made. Whose game will be played? Who will be in charge? My kids love playing with their cousin, so we try to find lots of opportunities to get together. Last weekend, I was lucky to have the perfect activity planned for the kids to enjoy together! We received the Home Designer set from K’NEX (item #43535) and it was just right for a Friday evening in.
The set came with a pamphlet, which my niece promptly unfolded and started to follow. My daughter, on the other hand, enjoyed a freestyle building manner. My son even got in on the action by manipulating some of the pieces, finding the parts the girls wanted to use. The Home Designer set facilitates use of creative thinking. The children were required to use categorization, strategy, and problem solving techniques to build their desired structures. This was a great way to encourage the kids to develop fine motor skills, too! After an hour or so, they had a fine building set up.
The Home Designer set would be a fabulous Christmas gift this year! Consider it for a sleepover activity, or set it aside for an unexpected snow day project. Display the Home Designer set on a classroom shelf for students to select when they want to engage in quiet social play. It’s easy to split up the set as needed, or you can put the pieces in a large container and allow students to build upon their own inspiration. Encourage students to incorporate their creations into a story. This could become a yearlong class project! K‘NEX can be found on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube. Be sure to follow them!
Who would be playing with this set at your house?
I like that the Home design Set encourages girls to build stuff! Alysia loves to build.
You can decorate the houses using the included accessories and make their home, your home with the Home Designer Building Set from Mighty Makers. Most models can be built one at a time.
I really like the Home Designers Set for my daughter! I love that it encourages girls to become builders and use their minds to create!
I like that this set comes with instructions for three different architecture themed buildings: a colonial, a brownstone, and a ranch.
My niece would love it. I Think the colors would keep her hooked. It would help her stay creative.
This sounds awesome. My granddaughter would love it. It’s also very educational to design and build their own doll house. I love it!
I like the Layer Cake Desert Building Set for my grandson.
This looks like a lot of fun…..I would have enjoyed this as a kid and I’m guessing still the grown-ups STILL would have fun with this along with the little ones.
WOW! I have never seen these sets, it looks like something my daughter would love!
I like that the a ccessories include flowers and flower pots, chairs, tables, lamps, blue prints, graphic panels and more (not just walls and a roof!)
Both of my kids would love this set but I think Id have fun designing houses too!!
These look amazing for my 8 year old. She’d LOVE them!
I think my son would really enjoy one of these sets!
My grandson would like the Battle Bow set.
My daughter would love this she is always building houses with Legos so I know she would enjoy K’nex!
This homebuilder kit is awesome. I didn’t even know KNEX had these….the will be on Santa’s list for sure at our house
I love the giant ferris wheel….I want to put that in my K’nex house’s backyard! 🙂
my granddaughter would love this set. she has alot of the knex sets. she would have fun designing and building the house.
I think this kit is so cute and I love the names Brianna and Sophia.
I have two young grandchildren who would really love this set!
The Home Disigner Set Includes instructions for three different architecture themed builds.
I like they can pick from a variety of homes to build. My daughters would have fun building a house.
My niece loves to build things and this kit would be perfect for Christmas!
They are for ages 7 and up and very colorful!
I like the home designer set my daughter loves to use Legos and try to build houses but this is more of a house building set than Legos.
I love that you can build different styles of houses!! So fun!!
The Blizzard Blast Roller Coaster Building Set looks fun.
In the Home designer set the Mighty Makers® Card challenges builder to explore additional architecture concepts
I like that you can actually build a house with it because it is very complicated to build one with Legos.
I love that the home designer set includes fun accessories for the kids to use to really make it their own!!
I like that it has instructions for 3 separate themed builds
I love that the builders are girls. I would give this prize to my niece.
I love how this Knex set is geared towards girls!!
I like that kids can build and then decorate with Brianna and Sophia
I also love the set where you can build 9 holes of mini golf!! How fun and creative!!!
My granddaughter would like the KID K’NEX Organisms and Lifecycles
I love that its for ages 7+. This will be perfect for my niece for Christmas!
So cute…I like all the accessories that come with this.
my little niece would love this for sure
My granddaughter would love the Deep Sea Dive™ Building Set.
I like that the accessories include flowers and flower pots, chairs, tables, lamps, blue prints, graphic panels and more!
I love the KID K’NEX Transportation set!! So fun and so perfect for tiny hands!!
I love that it Includes 433 K’NEX parts and pieces, that’s enough to keep them busy for a long time!
I like that the Mighty Makers® Card challenges builder to explore additional architecture concepts.
Fun On the Ferris Wheel™ Building Set looks neat.
I love that this allows kids (my daughter) to build from the ground up and decorate to her liking. Great product from Knex.
My grandson would like the computer control.
We love the KID K’NEX Group Set!! So fun to make the bugs and animals!!
The Home Designer Set is awesome because it’s great for boys & girls and I love that they can use their imagination with K’NEX to make it however they choose.
Mighty Makers are designed for kids Ages 7+
My grandson would like the Thunderbolt Strike Rollercoaster Building Set
Love the KID K’NEX Organisms and Lifecycles!! So cool to learn and be able to MAKE what you are learning about!!
I really like that this super cool set can be configured in three different ways. That way you can take it a part and build a different structure. So fun!!
My grandson likes Mario Kart so I think the Mario Kart™ Building Set would be good.
Love the Battle Bow Building Set!! So super cool!!
The Lincoln Logs Country Meadow Cottage is cute and would be a great size for a friend’s daughter.
Love the Build-a-bunch Building Set!!! So fun and so perfect for a starter set!!
My nephew would get a kick out of this.
Thanks for the contest.
I like that they offer gender-neutral toys
I’m team K’nex, I like that they are in the vanguard of producing gender-neutral toys.
My grandkids would like the Battle Building Set
The Mega Boom Building Set looks super fun!! How cool that you get to build it and then go nuts with it 🙂 My kiddo would love it!
I love this K’nex set! I am pleased to see that so many things are starting to push gender colors equally. K’nex in pink would have never happened when I was little, but then neither would a blue kitchen set!
I visited knex.com. My daughter would love the Home Designer set with Brianna and Sophia. She loves attention to little details and is proud once she builds something. She is the perfect age for this set.
My little girl would love the Home Designer™ Building Set she loves to build and decorate things.
I like the idea that in this set you can Help them build different styles of houses – a colonial, a brownstone, and a ranch. My children would have so much fun with tis especially with all he snow days we’ll have coming up soon.
This set is pretty cool! Love that they have something for girls!
I love the Mega Builder building set. i have 2 grandsons who would love it.
How fun that there are Pac Man sets like the Spiral’s Pac World Maze Building Set.
I love this set! Sad that it is sold out right now. I like that it comes with quite a few accessories!
I love the going green building set!! So much fun!!
I love the uniqueness of the Grandfather Clock on the KNex website.
I love seeing a building set that girls will love, my granddaughter wants this set for Christmas.
I just love the fact that it Includes 433 K’NEX parts and pieces
The figure packs would make great stocking stuffers. I like the Cannon Box Mario, Skipsqueak, & Mystery Figure.
Ok, truth be told I don’t really understand these instructions:
“In a blog comment, leave a message about the Home Designer set.
May be completed daily – choose a different product each day!”
I am running out of things to say about the Home Designer Set (it’s really great I think!), but I can’t tell if you want me to comment about another toy on the site. Like I like the look of the Double Doom Roller Coaster Building Set and I’d bet that Alysia could build it (even if it does have 900 pieces).
Love the Cosmic Quest Building Set!! So fun!!!
I think it looks so real with the blue prints and graphic panels. This is a great little toy.
I like that the kids can build different house styles in the KNEX Mighty Makers Home Designer Building set.
Real Bridge Building would be something my nephew would like.
My daughter is big into Lego Friends and building things right now! We currently have the ferris wheel set and she added them to her Lego sets! She would love this one too!