Free Online Bob The Builder Games & Activities

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If you have a Bob The Builder fan stuck at home, bored and needing entertainment, look no further than the internet for some free Bob The Builder games and activities. Save yourself a few pounds and rather than buying Bob The Builder character toys, point them in the direction of these great things to do.

Online Games
Children love to play free games online and there are numerous Bob The Builder games to amuse them while teaching them a few keyboard and mouse skills along the way.

On BobTheBuilder.com there are a large variety of games split into the following types:

•    Racing & Mazes (Mountain Scrambler, Packers’ Pick Up, Muck’s Maze, Scrambler’s Ramble)
•    Puzzles (including Jigsaws, Slider Puzzles and Noughts & Crosses)
•    Building & Painting (Paint The Gang, Design A House, Bob’s Pipe Game)
•    Matching (Matching Game & Bob’s Tool Shed)
•    Counting (Snowball Spud)

Beware though this site makes some annoying machinery noises every few seconds to keep you in the Bob The Builder building mood!

The BBC website has no such annoying noises but has a smaller selection of online games.

Here you can choose from:

•    Sunflower Park – where you help Bob build a playground.
•    Relay Race – where you have to help Bob find his lost spanner in the village.
•    Apple Antics – Spud is throwing apples from the trees and you have to catch them.
•    Bobsville Build – where you get to help Bob and his team move to Sunflower Valley.

For a more commercial online game head over to GameHouse.com for their ‘Bob The Builder Can-Do Carnival’ game.

There is a free trial of this game you can download or you can pay to upgrade to the full version. The game involves helping Bob build his own carnival. You have to help him plan the job, choose the materials, pick the right tools and clean up afterwards in a series of games that are both fun and creative.

Not quite a game, but for younger fans try these ‘projects‘:

•    Build A Playground
•    Mend A Road
•    Build A Fountain

Here your children have to go through a series of tasks to complete the overall project.  In the ‘Build A Playground’ project they have to dig a hole, fill in the sand, put up a sign etc. They have to follow Bob’s instructions and click on the right machine so that it performs the right action.

Printable Colouring Sheets

Children love to colour and what better pictures than their very own favourite characters from their favourite cartoon.

BobTheBuilder.com has many colouring sheets of Bob himself and all the most popular machines.

The BBC website has a selection of the human characters but no machines.

Printable Activity Sheets

If your children are not into colouring then print them off some of these puzzles, mazes and matching activities.

Other Printables

Brighten up your little one’s bedroom walls or doors with some Bob The Builder pictures by printing off these free posters of the most popular characters.

Other Online Activities

You can Meet The Team and find out some fun facts and hear sound effects of the most popular characters.

Read an Online Story with these great little Bob The Builder books full of pictures.

Craft Activities

Head back to the BBC website for a selection of Bob The Builder craft tasks – you can choose from making a card, a finger puppet or a drum kit.

There are also some nice step by step instructions on BobTheBuilder.com of how to make homemade dough, a shoebox town and sock puppets.

Outdoor Activities

If the weather is on your side, get your little ones outdoors for some Bob The Builder fun. Download instructions for the following activities: Painter, Muck May I? game and a Nature Collage.

And try ‘I Spy’ or ‘Construction Site’ games if you’re on the go and need to keep your children entertained.

Theme Song

If your little ones are anything like mine, then a favourite music activity is to listen to the theme song over and over again until you (not them!) want to scream! If you’re prone to headaches, don’t check this out!

I hope this gives you a few ideas of free Bob The Builder games and activities you can try with the click of a few buttons!

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Bob The Builder: Build It With Bob Construction Sets – Review

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The Build It With Bob construction sets contain everything you need to create mini construction projects. You can stay simple and just build a wall or push yourself to the limits and recreate your own house.

Each Bob The Builder set comes with a posable Bob the Builder figure, bricks, cement, and all the tools you need to build away. Children will have to watch out for the adults taking over this fun and educational toy.

Instructions are included to teach you how to build anything from walls to more advanced structures or you can just build whatever pops into your imagination. The bricks are reusable, so you can create new structures over and over again. You have to mix up play ‘cement’ to use to stick your bricks together and you spread it on with the included trowel. This cement isn’t real so is totally safe and sticks the bricks together long enough for you to get bored with your creation – you then just soak it in water and the cement dissolves.

Two sets are currently available – a 30 brick set costing around £10 or a 50 brick set for £15.

If you want more bricks and mortar, both are available to buy separately for about £5.

This Bob The Builder toy comes with:

•  30/50 real clay bricks
•  Cement
•  Wooden trowel
•  Wipe clean play mat
•  Base board
•  Mixing bowl
•  Cloth
•  Building plans
•  8 cm articulated Bob the Builder figure

What we liked …

  • The included instructions are for a clock tower which was pretty straight forward.
  • Mixing the cement was easy.
  • It encourages your child to think about how buildings are constructed.
  • The instructions teach show you how bricks are laid in real life which is a good skill to know.
  • This is not just a stacking bricks game.
  • The possibilities for building different structures are endless.
  • Hands-on children will have great fun with this set.
  • The real feel of the bricks makes a nice change from plastic.
  • Although the majority of the bricks are rectangular, like normal bricks, there are also some more interesting shapes included to play about with.
  • Girls loved this just as much as boys.
  • It sounds too easy to “just soak in water and use again” but amazingly it does what it says on the tin.
  • Everything you need is included other than water.

What we didn’t like ….

  • The amount of cement given is only sufficient for two sessions.
  • There are only enough bricks to make the clock tower. If you want to create a house or other structure buy the larger set of 50 bricks or even the extra set of bricks.
  • It is quite fiddly so is probably more suitable to older children.  The Bob The Builder branding may put older children off using it but it would probably be more up their street. 7+ seems a better age range.
  • It requires adult help and supervision, especially for younger children.
  • The metal trowel is made of metal and would be safer if rounded off or made of plastic.
  • The instructions would have been better if they had shown two or three different designs.
  • The clock face would have been better in plastic not cardboard, as after one use it was rather soggy.
  • Bob was the only character included.

Overall …

This is a brilliantly different item from the Bob The Builder toys range that offers a fun twist on the old block stacking sets. Children will love this even more than Bob The Builder Lego due to the theme of fun and mess and even adults will become addicted. If you are stuck wondering what are the top Christmas presents this year, this would be top of my list for children aged over 7 years old.

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