Winner of the SDBJ Innovation Awards, Smart Blocks Inc. has created a new and unique children’s educational toy which combines the benefits of learning with talking toys with the wondrous creativity of building blocks. Smarcks recognize and remember the blocks they are stacked on and teach about colors, counting, spelling, shapes, nursery rhymes, music, math, and even good manners. There are 7 Smarcks kids building block sets, the first is the starter set with 70 non-talking blocks and one talking Blue Color Block which is shown above. The next 6 Smarcks kids building block sets are 3 piece talking Smart Block Sets to be used with the 70 Piece Building Block Set. The Smart Block Sets are a progressive learning series starting at age 1 with the Color Blocks which teach about colors and good manners with statements such as, “I am a block that’s green, and I am never mean.” Each year children progress to the next Smart Block set until the final set at age 5 which consists of the amazing Math Blocks. See and hear these educational toys in action by clicking the button above and don’t miss the disco dance party and Smarcks Song at the end of the home page flash animation. It takes a little while to load but is definitely worth the wait to see these talking and singing building sets in action! The Smarcks Song encourages kids to learn, teaches good manners, and creates a positive and fun educational environment. Solving the Music Block puzzles seen in the disco dance party helps children develop spatial relationships and creative thinking. The Technology page shows you exactly how these building sets work and how they were designed to be safe and durable kids building blocks. Puzzle Secrets has interactive animations that allow you to stack the Smart Blocks and discover hidden puzzles which allow these building block sets to not only be creative and educational toys but also help develop creative thinking. To get children started on the path to creative thinking with these building sets, the Puzzle Secrets page has a Puzzle Builder Guide which has step by step instructions on how to stack these kids blocks to build structures to solve the Smarcks puzzles. Audio samples for all of the talking building blocks sets can be heard on the Products page. Smarcks can be assembled on other common kids blocks; however, they can only perform their educational functions when stacked on blocks from the 70 Piece Building Blocks Set. Smarcks have different shapes on the tops of their posts to allow the Smart Blocks to identify them. Kids blocks from other building blocks sets do not have these educational shapes and therefore can be assembled with but not identified by a Smart Block.