For our kids’ first birthday, Albert and Erin got a Mega Bloks set. It’s held the girls’ attention fairly well over the last ten months, but Eleanor especially likes to sit and build with the blocks. She creates all sorts of fantastical structures. Pieces of them often fall down, and Miranda sometimes takes pieces off of them, but Eleanor is remarkably unperturbed about it and continues to build where she left off. She’ll sometimes take off some blocks so that others can fit on the remaining structure better. Here are some examples.
This last picture is a telephone that Eleanor made.