Lincoln Logs®

I played with these in Pre-K every day. Great Fun!!

- Joe, Dallas, GA

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I used to build cities on our living room's braid rug using Lincoln Logs, Legos, and Girder and Panel skyscraper building sets. My dad used to get mad because he couldn't watch the evening news on TV because my skyline was blocking his view.

- Michael, Indianapolis

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This is one of the few things my older brother and I could play with together. I loved figuring out how to build different structures. Leftover Lincoln Logs were used for a fence or hitching post for our little plastic cowboys and Indians.

After I got older, I realized that playing with Lincoln Logs probably helped me to develop spatial reasoning. When my kids were little, I bought a set of Lincoln Log's for them. They went great with the Alamo set! Later, the Lincoln Log's were donated to a large Bible study, where pre-school kids love to play with them during free play.

Lincoln Logs are a great childhood memory!

- KK, Avon, IN

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Every year on Abraham Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12), my dad would build a log cabin out of Lincoln Logs as a tribute/celebration of Lincoln. I still have that Lincoln Log set--I guess I should re-start the tradition with my own children!

- Cheryl, Greenfield, IN

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I built many a cabin-house with a green boarded roof and red chimney with my Lincoln logs. I remember when they came with metal figures.

- Elliott, Indianapolis, IN

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Both of my parents have passed, my mom most recently. So I was in charge of going through all the items in the house and moving them out for the sale of my childhood home. When going through the attic I was looking specifically for certain toys I played with as a child and loved more than anything. Pulled away one box and another to find behind them in the circular tube that had all of them in there. I screamed from the attic that I found them and scared everyone in the garage thinking I was falling through the ceiling. :) My dad and I would spend time building things around the house and fixing things. Lincoln Logs was the first thing we ever "built" together and started my love for construction and making things with my hands. So many fond memories of this toy with my father. I now can't wait to have my husband play with them with my daughter.

- Jennifer, Avon, IN

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We five girls had Lincoln Logs to play with way before my brother Patrick arrived on the scene. We LOVED putting them together and making houses and villages. I became an Interior Designer. Patrick did try architecture but is now a radiant heating specialist. The set stayed in the window seat/chest next to the fireplace and when grandchildren arrived they enjoyed playing with the Lincoln Logs so much so that Mom kept them when she moved into a retirement center and the first great-grandchild played with them. They are now with my brother until his 20 something boys have children.

- Becky, Cincinnati

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Lincoln logs were the start of my being inquisitive about how things fit together I could assemble the log cabin and enjoyed how the parts fit together only one way to make the log cabin. It led me into watchmaking and later in becoming a lawyer litigation case are assembled from gathering the facts of the occurrence into a story to which the law is applied. I think assembling toys can help develop a part of the brain that aids in problem solving.

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