Uncle Goose Classic ABC Blocks - Made in The USA

These blocks are even more beautiful in person than pictured! I can’t say enough nice things about this toy. I love that it’s made in the US. I specifically bought this toy because of how beautiful it is and well-made. I intend to save these after their use for my grandchildren. This is definitely heirloom quality. There are so many ways that these blocks can be used. There are numbers, arithmetic operations, animals and the alphabet. These blocks can be used for so many educational purposes. Learning words/spelling, counting/math, learning animals, stacking and sorting.

Classic heirloom toy that’s bound to last. We love the animal illustrations on them too!

Gave these as a gift for our baby for Christmas. Very well made for the price with great detail! Not too big to be a choking hazard and we really appreciate them using mouth safe ink. Already eyeing our next set of blocks from them!

Beautiful, textured, quality. These are the best wood blocks I've seen.

We bought these for our son who is two after doing a bunch of research on nontoxic toy brands. Uncle Goose came up as one of the best brands. These blocks are the cutest thing ever and I love that they come from a family business and made in the US. They are colorful without being over the top ugly like most and have animals, numbers and letters on all sides of the cubes... such a great learning toy for our boy! These will be great to pass down to all of our kids and would be such a cute gift as well!These also come in a bunch of other varieties and languages. If we weren’t on a strict budget with two kids, I’d buy them all up!

These are exactly as you remember them. Beautiful, real wood, carved and printed in nice primary colors. That said you must follow the cleaning instructions exactly. I bought a new set because the older set, also uncle goose, were ruined when stored for sometime using tape to hold them on a wood wagon (which was how they were sold at the time. The tape left a sticky residue on the top of the top row of blocks. Only goo off would remove the residue and it also removed the color on the stamped blocks. The carved side is fine, see pic 1. But the stamped side was ruined. This company does sell replacement blocks. In my case so many were ruined it was worth buying a new set. It was my own fault but still. Keep the blocks away from anything sticky and follow cleaning instructions exactly. Never clean with a chemical cleaner like GooOff. My new blocks are exactly like the old ones, except a few pictures are slightly different. They are the same size and fit in the old wood wagon exactly. Thank you for making this wonderful classic toy.

The Easter Bunny brought this set for my two year four month old son. I was not sure he would find this interesting amongst the array of loud beeping toys but I was pleasantly surprised that he engaged with this toy. He enjoys stacking them and building pyramids with them as well as piling them into his dump truck and pretending to haul them off to the dump. I like that I can interject little pockets of learning numbers and letters into his playing with these blocks by pointing out the letters and lining up a few blocks in numerical order to practice counting.The quality justifies the price. They are beautifully made and I particularly like the embossed detail which gives the blocks nice texture. The colors are vivid without being obnoxious.This is a classic timeless quality made toy and is one of a few toys I intend to hold onto for my son's children to play with years down the road, if he has children .

Of course I knew going in on purchasing them that they would be. I scoured the reviews and also took note of the info above saying it was basswood, I didn't expect these things to be rock hard because they're not made from oak or something (which would probably be more pricey anyway)I just wanted a nice set of wooden blocks for my youngin'. They're all about stacking things and their ABCS and 123s and animals and colors right now, and these fit the bill perfectly. They love them (perhaps a bit too much!) and I love playing blocks with them. This set has plenty of learning potential which is fun too. They're nicely made, nicely packaged, and the embossed letters are really cool.Of course, regretfully I did have to ding a star for the durability. As I said I didn't expect these things to stand up perfectly to a rambunctious toddler who wants to stack them 4 feet high, because it's basswood. But it's something that parents should consider when shopping around for toys for their kids. The wood is a bit soft and I wouldn't recommend these be left out or used for unsupervised play just as a precaution, especially if you do indeed intend them as an heirloom.Overall I think the product is good though. The quality put into the prints and embossing really impressed me, just have to be mindful of the wood itself.