New LEGO® DUPLO® Sets Encourage Fun and Educational Mealtimes Through Imaginative Play

The LEGO® Group has launched a new LEGO® DUPLO® Garden range that helps parents engage their toddlers through creative play, making mealtimes fun and relaxed. The new LEGO DUPLO Garden range is expertly designed with fun narratives, bright colours and engaging characters that include a variety of organic vegetables and fruits to facilitate conversations on balanced diets and cultivate healthy eating habits.

In a world of endless possibilities, LEGO DUPLO gives toddlers a big start in life by supporting their natural discovery and learning process which helps to develop essential life skills such as building confidence, self-expression, and resilience. Mealtimes can be stressful and challenging for parents, especially for those with young children but they can also provide an opportune time to teach little ones about nutrition in a fun manner. With the new LEGO DUPLO Garden range, parents can keep mealtimes relaxed for little ones while allowing them to learn about food and vegetables through imaginative play.

Amanda Abel, Melbourne-based paediatric psychologist and registered Sequential-Oral-Sensory (SOS) feeding therapist has been working with The LEGO Group through digital media network TotallyAwesome to help parents cultivate creative and educational play with their toddlers through LEGO DUPLO bricks. She shares actionable ways for parents to incorporate active and creative play into mealtimes with sets from the new LEGO DUPLO Garden range:

• Play a fruit and vegetable guessing game by placing items from 10982 LEGO DUPLO My First Fruit and Vegetable Tractor in a bag and allowing children to guess the item by touching it.
• Ignite your child’s imagination by roleplaying as an owner of a market stall utilising 10983 LEGO DUPLO My First Organic Market.
• Expose children to the food rainbow and a wide variety of produce through questions such as what colour is the carrot in the 10981 LEGO DUPLO My First Growing Carrot set? What are other orange foods you can think of?
• Spark a conversation on growing organic produce at home by roleplaying with 10984 LEGO DUPLO My First Organic Garden.

Grow your child’s imagination with 10981 LEGO DUPLO My First Growing Carrot, which features an interactive stacking design for young ones to learn about healthy living and the growth of plants. This model offers skills-sharpening fun with chunky, brightly coloured bricks for kids to explore and rebuild for hours.

Preschoolers can embark on an adventure around the fun and let their imagination run free with 10982 LEGO DUPLO My First Fruit and Vegetable Tractor. Watch the plants grow before your very eyes and reap a bountiful harvest with this versatile set!

Take a trip to the supermarket with your toddler as they kick-start their shopping experience with 10983 LEGO DUPLO My First Organic Market. With this educational and fun set, children will be introduced to the shopping process where they will get to explore their self-expression, while honing their balancing and number recognition skills.

Little learners with green fingers can explore their very own garden, befriend adorable wildlife creatures and learn about plants with 10984 LEGO DUPLO My First Organic Garden. This vibrant set takes the fun indoors, with a brick box to keep the pieces tidy when playtime is over.