All The Girls Love GoldieBlox #Giveaway #LookatGoldie

Have you heard of GoldieBlox?  They are an award winning toy company out to disrupt pink toy aisles everywhere. If you know my daughter, Madison, she is not a girly girl at all.  This is a kid who never played with dolls and up until recently, didn’t like the color pink.  Two years ago, Stanford engineer Debbie Sterling made it her mission to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and help prove that girls are just as good as boys.  Debbie’s interactive book series + construction toys for girls, has rocketed from a prototype to the 2014 Toy of the Year, featured everywhere from the Today Show to Good Morning America, Elle, and the New York Times. GoldieBlox even won Intuit’s contest for a Super Bowl ad along the way!  That is why I was excited to try out GoldieBlox with Madison.  

When I was telling my best friend about how Madison and I were going to build something using the brand new GoldieBlox Builder’s Survival kit, she was totally excited.  We were sent the  Goldieblox Builders Survival Kit, the Goldieblox and the Movie Machine, and Goldieblox and the Parade Float, but Madison decided out of all of this she wanted to build the Tea Cups which had a basic set of directions in the Builders Survival Kit.  My friend had heard of GoldieBlox too but wanted to see the kits for herself.  That is how we ended up having a mother/daughter GoldieBlox playdate.  Moms and daughters working together on engineering a project — what more could you ask for?  (Madison also plans on building a zephyr next week with the Builders Survival Kit.  You have to love that she’s already thinking about her next project!)

Once Cadence agreed to build the Tea Cups, we got to work making sure we had all the pieces we needed —

We next started building:

The girls were able to follow the directions pretty easily and add their own flair to it. That’s the beauty of GoldieBlox — you don’t have to follow the directions. You can make it into your own thing, they just give you a blueprint of how to start a lot of really cool creations.

I’ll be honest – the hardest part of this project was not the construction of the pieces (which you may think it would be). Instead, we struggled with getting the tea cups to stay together! After several tries, we finally did get to work and I have to admit they are pretty cute.

The girls were totally proud of themselves, and with a little help from us moms, they built this little invention in a little less than an hour.

As I stated above, Madison wants to keep this together for the rest of the week, but she is already planning her next build. I love how that the Builders Survival Kit has kept her interested and wanting to build more! That is why I have arranged for one lucky reader to win a GoldieBlox Prize Pack. Here’s what you need to do:

What do you think you’d love most about the Goldieblox kits?