MEGA BLOKS Build 'n Learn Table toy building set with 30 big building blocks and 1 rolling vehicle BLOKS Fisher Price Building Toy ABC Blocks, ABC Learning Train Learning Toy for Toddlers 1-3

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You can slide the included flat cover on top to turn this into an art table or a study spot for early homework projects. The primary colors might lend themselves more to a playroom or a kid's bedroom than the living room.

We looked at 15 Lego table options and tested seven of them to assess size, material and value when deciding which ones merited a spot on our list. Note that this is a very small table, about a foot and a half on each side, so it's not going to be very useful past the preschool years. A variation of our best overall choice, this KidKraft Lego table comes with 200 bricks and 30 wooden train pieces to get your child started playing on either side of the reversible tabletop. Or you may have enough bricks in your house already, and might be more grateful for a chair or built-in storage.Kids in Kindergarten and older will be more interested in the smaller Lego that let them build more complicated structures. The perfect first building blocks for little ones, Mega Bloks are super chunky and easy for little hands to grasp onto. When considering what makes a great table for Lego building, we look for tables by reputable brands made with kids in mind. The legs can fold under so this can lay flat for easy storage under the couch or get tucked into a corner. The Lego side has four baseplates in bright colors and the train side features a landscape of trees and a lake that kids can wind their train through.

It's more "kiddie" than our best overall choice, which makes it less of a decor option, but we love that it comes with so many extras. Our Good Housekeeping Institute Parenting Lab tests some 500 toys and their accessories each year for our annual Best Toy Awards and Parenting Awards. Ideally, they would include a brick-compatible top so that children have a ready-made platform to display their Lego creations. If you have an older, heavier child who tries to sit or stand on this or a kid who plays roughly with it, it might break — but that's just a common-sense reminder that holds true for many play tables. Building with Lego is fun and can help support spatial awareness and reasoning, teamwork (or conflict resolution!Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.

This wooden table holds Lego bricks and also gives kids a roughly two-foot-square tabletop on which to build.Though this table can adapt to hold any kind of toy, we feel that the deep storage bins and wide, flat top make it especially great for storing and building Lego projects. This great gift for a 1- or 2-year-old comes with 44 Mega Bloks, including some with letters and numbers printed on them and one that's a little vehicle. Storage possibilities: As parents ourselves, we're fans of tables where the bricks can be contained and hidden out of sight whether in bins, drawers or under-lid compartments. On the other hand, if your child is age 3 or older, look for something age-graded for them that has a larger surface area. We love that it comes with 195 bricks, looks good and is an affordable way to encourage building for a child age 3 or older.

It's a joke that's right on the money: When you reach the stepping-on-Lego years, you become the parent trying to silent-scream your curses. We check the age grading, size, weight and materials of each table and layer in our own user reviews while checking online reviews as well. Before they can safely advance to Lego bricks, toddlers can play with the chunkier Duplo blocks made by the Lego company for kids under age 4.

The parenting and product pros at our Good Housekeeping Institute Parenting Lab test some 500 toys over the course of each year to include in our toy roundups as well as our annual Best Toy Awards and Parenting Awards. Rachel Rothman (she/her) is the chief technologist and executive technical director at the Good Housekeeping Institute, where she oversees testing methodology, implementation and reporting for all GH Labs. Our list does not include any Lego tables for adults, but if you're a "kidult" Lego builder or know someone who is, check out our favorite grown-up Lego sets you might love.