Chinese Character Blocks, Made in the USA
Over Christmas in Florida, my dad gave my son (then not quite three years old) a set of wooden blocks. What’s interesting is that these were Chinese character blocks, featuring both Chinese characters and their stroke orders. And these were made in the USA! (Must have been one of the few toys my kids got for Christmas that wasn’t made in China, and it was a set of Chinese character blocks.)
We couldn’t fit such a heavy toy in our luggage on the trip back, so my dad shipped them over for us: Chinese blocks, made in the USA, shipped from the USA to China. Irony level up!
These are apparently “Uncle Goose” brand wooden blocks, but the ones we have look different from what’s on Amazon. I like ours better… they look like these, and have a map of China on the back, as well as a cool dragon and stuff.
I see Uncle Goose also does blocks for Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew, Hindi, Arabic, and others. Pretty cool!
I got these blocks recently as a gift for a toddler turning two. He’ll throw them around for a while but hopefully learn the 32 characters at some point. He is third generation so expectations are not high. Got the Amazon set which is not so stimulating as the dragon and map, I think. A little disappointed that you can only get simplified characters but this company makes many languages and can just choose on simple/traditional character set to manufacture.