Construction Toys & Building Sets for 8 Year Olds

Check out these creative construction toys for 8-year-olds from MindWare!

Creative construction toys for eight-year-olds come in all sizes and shapes - and we've got dozens for you to choose from. Build magnificent mazes with MindWare's extreme Q-BA-MAZE 2.0 Marble Runs or create amazing buildings with our KEVA Maple or Pine precision plank sets. But that's just the beginning, because you'll find Demolition Lab, Playstix, Straws and Connectors, the ZOOB Challenge and so much more on our creative construction toys for eight-year-olds pages.

With the ZOOB Challenge and the ZOOBMobile Car Designers Kit you can put it all together and create vehicles and launchers of all types using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills.

In addition to our exclusive Q-BA-MAZE 2.0 Marble Sets you'll find the classic MindWare Marble Runs and Amaze-N-Marbles wooden marble mazes – for those households and classes that just can't get enough marble maze mania! Marble mazes spark creativity, while building hand-eye coordination and spatial skills.

For building on a smaller scale try Straws and Connectors, the Aqua and Pyro Dragon Set, GeoPlay: Arcade Colors, Pattern Play 3D or Gears, Gears, Gears! Each of these construction toys will allow kids to spend hours building unique structures and bold patterns of their own design.

If Dinosaurs or Space are your young scientist's favorites – or if you happen to be a science teacher – Laser Pegs National Geographic Dinosaurs 24-in-1 Construction Kit or the Space 24-in-1 Kit are the perfect building sets for you. These LED-lit creative construction kits come with a power base that lights up the finished model. Best of all there are 24 different things to build in each set providing hours of creative fun.

Of course MindWare's award-winning KEVA Building Sets are the perfect for sparking imaginations. These classic construction toys require no glue. Precision made to stack perfectly, these kits allow kids of all ages to build buildings, monuments and create their own patterns over and over again. Incredibly durable these are perfect for the classroom too.

Teach kids lessons in power, force and momentum with the Demolition Lab and Blast Factory or the Demolition Lab and Quad Blaster for build-it-up and demolish-it-down fun. For a project with cutting edge technology try the Smart Car Robotics kit. You kids will love creating a high-tech vehicle then driving it through futuristic cityscapes with their smart phone or table.

But that's not all! Your eight-year-old will have hours of fun with the Mega Marble Run, the Goobie Magnetic Construction Pack, ZomeTool Creator and more. All of these inspire young minds to grow their hand-eye coordination, pattern building and recognition as well as providing hours of free-form creative fun.