{"title":"Wooden Construction Sets","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNotched beams, no glue, no tools\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery set here is built the same way: square-section beams and half-beams with notches cut into their ends, stacked and interlocked corner over corner. Nothing is glued and nothing is screwed. It is how log houses are actually built in the Ukrainian Carpathians, reduced to a scale a child can handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wood is untreated hardwood, with no varnish, paint or coating of any kind. The shortest piece in the house sets is 24 mm, the longest 192 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Fortress series builds one town\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour of these sets belong together: the Tower, the Fortification walls, the GateWay and the Castle. Each stands on its own, and assembled together they form a single fortified town, with the tower rising out of the middle of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are also four of the largest sets in the range, from 213 pieces up to 296, and their age ratings run 6+ for the Tower, 8+ for the walls, 10+ for the gateway, 12+ for the Castle. That progression is deliberate. A child who starts with the Tower has somewhere to go next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe houses, and where to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside the fortress sets are three buildings that work on their own. The Money Box at 37 pieces is the smallest thing we sell in this range and the only one where the finished object has a use: a house-shaped box for pocket money. The House with Garage at 75 pieces adds a second storey, a balcony and a bay sized for a toy car. The Cottage at 206 pieces contains four different floor plans rather than one, so it can be rebuilt rather than built once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recommended ages run from 3 upward, and they mean something here. A 37-piece set is a task a four-year-old can finish alone; a 294-piece castle is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Eiffel Tower is the outlier\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e274 pieces, rated 14+, and the only set in the range that reproduces a real building rather than a generic one. It follows the tower's actual geometry: the wide four-legged base, the narrowing through the second platform, the spire. It is the most demanding build in this range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people do with them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese get taken apart and rebuilt, which is not true of most construction toys. Because nothing is glued, the finished house comes down as easily as it went up, and the instruction booklets include alternative models. The GateWay booklet has plans for a four-by-four and a tank alongside the gate itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIgroteco also state that their sets can be combined with one another, so a child with two boxes has more than two buildings to work from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho makes them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIgroteco is a Ukrainian manufacturer working in solid wood. These sets are one of the few lines we stock rather than make ourselves – they earned their place because interlocking-beam construction is a genuinely different thing from block stacking, and because untreated hardwood is increasingly hard to find in children's toys.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-gateway-296-pieces","title":"GateWay Wooden Construction Set, 296 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eGates that actually open\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred and ninety-six pieces in three sections, with wide gates at the centre whose mechanism swings outward. It is the only set in the range with a moving part, and building it correctly is the point of the 10+ rating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the structure through which a fortress was entered: the weakest point in any wall, and therefore the most heavily built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThirty-nine different piece types\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than any other set here, which is what makes the sorting stage matter. Where a house set has beams in three or four lengths, this one has pieces shaped specifically for the gate frame, the hinge housing and the arch above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe instructions draw each piece at actual size, so identifying them is a matter of laying a piece on the page rather than measuring it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat else the booklet contains\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlans for a four-by-four and a tank, built from the same pieces. Neither has anything to do with a fortress, which is the point: they are there to show what the piece profile can do once the child stops following the intended model.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no varnish or paint. Part of the four-set Fortress series, between the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/fortification-wooden-construction-set-282-pieces\"\u003eFortification walls\u003c\/a\u003e at 8+ and the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/castle-wooden-construction-set-294-pieces\"\u003eCastle\u003c\/a\u003e at 12+, with the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/tower-wooden-construction-set\"\u003eTower\u003c\/a\u003e as the entry point. Ships at 2.3 kg in a 37 × 30 × 8 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693932163,"sku":"900354","price":69.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/konstruktor-derevianyi-vizna-brama-296-detalei-83905425407034.jpg?v=1780866756"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-chateau-294-pieces","title":"Castle Wooden Construction Set, 294 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe building the walls were built around\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Castle is the keep: the place the lords lived, and the structure the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/fortification-wooden-construction-set-282-pieces\"\u003eFortification walls\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/gateway-wooden-construction-set-296-pieces\"\u003eGateWay\u003c\/a\u003e exist to protect. Two hundred and ninety-four pieces, and the highest age rating in the range at 12+.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat rating is not about piece count, since the GateWay has more. It is about the vertical build. A castle rises through several storeys, and each course has to sit true before the next goes on, so a mistake three levels down shows up as a lean at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty concentrates\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe upper storeys. The lower walls are straightforward courses of interlocking beams; higher up the plan narrows and the corner joints carry more load, which means the fit has to be tight rather than approximately right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on a flat rigid surface matters more here than on any other set. A table with a slight bow in it will show by the fourth course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe last of the four\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Castle completes the Fortress series, after the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/tower-wooden-construction-set\"\u003eTower\u003c\/a\u003e at 6+, the walls at 8+ and the gateway at 10+. Assembled together the four form one fortified town, with the castle at the centre of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no coating. Notched beams, no glue or tools. Ships at 2.5 kg in a 37 × 30 × 8 cm box – the heaviest set we stock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693964931,"sku":"900361","price":73.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/53182108622436.png?v=1780866757"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-maison-avec-balcon-136-pieces","title":"House with Balcony Wooden Construction Set, 136 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA long balcony, and no single right answer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hundred and thirty-six notched pieces, and the balcony is the point: it runs the full length of one side rather than sitting over the door, which gives the finished house a horizontal shape unlike anything else in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also the most flexible of the three house sets here, for a structural reason rather than a marketing one. The balcony section can be built as drawn, extended along a second wall, or left off entirely, and the roof pieces work either way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits between the others\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 136 pieces it is roughly double the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/house-with-garage-wooden-construction-set\"\u003eHouse with Garage\u003c\/a\u003e and two-thirds of the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/cottage-wooden-construction-set\"\u003eCottage\u003c\/a\u003e. Recommended from 6, which is where the instruction booklet stops being something an adult reads aloud and becomes something the child follows alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no varnish or paint. Beams and half-beams with notched ends, square section, from 24 to 180 mm. Illustrated booklet included. Ships at 1.1 kg in a 28 × 23 × 7 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693997699,"sku":"900248","price":36.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/konstruktor-derevianyi-dlia-ditei-budynochok-z-balkonom-136-det.-59623504914588.jpg?v=1780866758"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-fortification-282-pieces","title":"Fortification Wooden Construction Set, 282 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWalls with a walkway along the top\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred and eighty-two pieces build defensive walls rather than a building, and the detail that makes them worth building is the combat passage running along the top – the walkway from which a town was actually defended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFortification walls served two purposes historically. They kept attackers out, and they announced that the community behind them was independent enough to build them. The second reason is why they were made taller than they needed to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBuilding without a floor plan\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA house set has one shape. Walls do not, so this is the set in the series with the most freedom: the booklet shows a fortification layout, but the same pieces run in any line or enclosure you want.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart from the foundation on a flat rigid surface, lay the lowest course, then build up beam by beam. Corners lock the run in place, so a wall without corners will not stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePart of the Fortress series\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of four sets that combine into a single town, alongside the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/tower-wooden-construction-set\"\u003eTower\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/gateway-wooden-construction-set-296-pieces\"\u003eGateWay\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/castle-wooden-construction-set-294-pieces\"\u003eCastle\u003c\/a\u003e. Rated 8+, second in the progression after the Tower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no coating. Notched beams, no glue or tools. Ships at 1.7 kg in a 37 × 30 × 8 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694030467,"sku":"900347","price":63.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/konstruktor-derevianyi-oboronni-mury-282-detalei-51010281584821.jpg?v=1780866759"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-tour-eiffel","title":"Eiffel Tower Wooden Construction Set","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA real building, reduced to 274 pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other set in this range builds a generic structure: a house, a wall, a tower. This one reproduces a specific building, and the geometry has to follow the original or it stops looking like the Eiffel Tower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe build works through the tower's actual stages. The wide four-legged base with its arch, the taper to the first platform, the narrowing through the second, and the spire. Gustave Eiffel's structure was designed around wind resistance, which is why it curves inward rather than tapering straight, and the model keeps that curve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy 14+\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe highest rating Igroteco give. The base sections are wide and the upper sections are narrow, so the build gets progressively less forgiving: by the spire the pieces are supporting almost nothing but themselves, and a joint that was left loose lower down will show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also has the least margin for improvisation. A house that comes out slightly wrong is still a house; this one is either recognisable or it is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf everything in this range, it is the one bought as a model rather than as a toy – for someone who has been to Paris, is going, or grew up hearing about it. It stands where it is put rather than being played with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no varnish or paint. Notched pieces, no glue or tools. Illustrated booklet. Finished model 27 × 54 cm. Ships at 2.1 kg in a 37 × 30 × 8 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48053434941571,"sku":"900156","price":79.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/6859391d369db309c98773ee_optimized.webp?v=1788275569"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-cottage-206-pieces","title":"Cottage Wooden Construction Set, 206 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFour houses in one box\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred and six pieces and four separate floor plans in the booklet, so the set is designed to be rebuilt rather than built. Each layout uses the same pieces arranged differently: a compact cottage, a longer one, and two variations with the roof and annexes moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the difference between this and the single-model sets. A child who finishes the first plan has three more to go without buying anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the joints work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beams have notches cut into their ends and stack corner over corner, which is the method used for log houses in the Ukrainian Carpathians. The shortest piece is 24 mm, the longest 192 mm, and all are square in section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing is glued, so a completed cottage comes apart in minutes when the next plan is wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no coating. Recommended from 6. Ships at 1.9 kg in a 33 × 24 × 8 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48053435007107,"sku":"900323","price":56.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/konstruktor-derevianyi-dlia-ditei-kotedzh-4v1-206-det.-62252022609794.jpg?v=1788275572"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-maison-avec-garage-75-pieces","title":"House with Garage Wooden Construction Set, 75 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eTwo storeys, a balcony and somewhere to park\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeventy-five notched pieces make a two-storey house with a balcony along one side and a garage bay at ground level, sized for a toy car rather than for decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 3+ rating is the lowest in the whole construction range, which makes this the entry point. The pieces are the same profile as the larger sets, so a child who builds this one is learning the same interlocking method they will use on a \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/gateway-wooden-construction-set-296-pieces\"\u003e296-piece fortress gateway\u003c\/a\u003e later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the garage changes how it is played with\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA finished house is a thing to look at. A finished house with a garage is a thing to drive into, so this set tends to join the toy cars a child already owns rather than standing on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat also means it comes apart more often than the display sets, since the garage opening is the first thing to get widened when a bigger car arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no coating. Pieces from 24 to 120 mm, square in section. Step-by-step illustrated booklet. Ships at 550 grams in a 26 × 18 × 6 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48053435072643,"sku":"900118","price":21.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/konstruktor-derevianyi-dlia-ditei-budynochok-z-harazhem-75-det.-43341399367739.jpg?v=1788275573"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-maison-tirelire-37-pieces","title":"Money Box Wooden Construction Set, 37 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe smallest set, and the only one with a job\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-seven notched pieces build a small house with a slot in the roof, where the two halves of the roof stop just short of meeting. Everything else in this range makes something to look at; this one makes something to use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 37 pieces it is the shortest build in the range, and with the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/house-with-garage-wooden-construction-set\"\u003eHouse with Garage\u003c\/a\u003e at 3+ it is one of the two natural first sets. The difference: this one a four-year-old finishes alone, in one sitting, without an adult holding the walls steady.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat happens after it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe box stays built. Unlike the larger sets, which get taken apart and rebuilt, this one tends to go on a shelf and start collecting coins, which means the child returns to it daily rather than once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmptying it means taking the roof apart, so the money is not sealed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no varnish or paint. Beams and half-beams with notched ends, interlocking at the corners. Ships at 450 grams in a 21 × 17 × 6 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48053435105411,"sku":"900293","price":13.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/60113973.webp?v=1788275574"},{"product_id":"jeu-de-construction-en-bois-tour-213-pieces","title":"Tower Wooden Construction Set, 213 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eForty-five centimetres of watchtower\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tower builds upward rather than outward, and the finished structure stands 45 cm tall – from the smallest piece count in the Fortress series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically the tower was where sentries stood in the walls of a fortified town, watching the approach. This one has the openings for it: window slots at each level and a crenellated top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo other things it builds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same 213 pieces also make a Viking figure and a train, with separate plans for each in the booklet. That is unusual here: the other Fortress sets build their one structure and variations of it, while this one leaves the theme entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits in the Fortress series\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the entry point. Rated 6+ against 8+ for the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/fortification-wooden-construction-set-282-pieces\"\u003ewalls\u003c\/a\u003e, 10+ for the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/gateway-wooden-construction-set-296-pieces\"\u003egateway\u003c\/a\u003e and 12+ for the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/castle-wooden-construction-set-294-pieces\"\u003eCastle\u003c\/a\u003e, and the fewest pieces of the four. Built together the series forms a single fortified town, with this tower rising out of the centre of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntreated hardwood, no varnish or paint. Notched beams, interlocking, no glue or tools. Illustrated booklet. Ships at 1.35 kg in a 33 × 24 × 8 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48053435170947,"sku":"900330","price":64.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/konstruktor-derevianyi-vezha-213-detalei-79199998273658.png?v=1788274792"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/collections\/construction-kit.jpg?v=1788258668","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/collections\/wooden-construction-sets.oembed","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}