The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Blocks for ages 7+. Featuring birds and favorite forest animals. Pictured here, Great Horned Owl, assembled.

Mini Building Blocks Sets

These Mini Building Block sets are packaged in colorful boxes and make great stocking stuffers or gifts! Packaging features interpretive information about each animal. A fun challenge to put together and detailed assembly instructions are included.

Because the individual building blocks are mini-sized, we recommend these for children ages 7 and older only.

Cardinal Mini Building Blocks Set

The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this vivid male Cardinal. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

Birds that raises our spirits on gray winter days! Vivid male Cardinal building block set is a cheerful challenge!

318 pieces, Assembled size of 3.38″ x 4.38″ x 4.5″

Great Horned Owl Mini Building Set

The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this Great Horned Owl. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

The Great Horned Owl is found throughout North America. It is named for the feathered tufts on its head that resemble horns. You’ll have a Hoot building your own Great Horned Owl with these mini building blocks!


392 pieces, Assembled size: 6-1/4″ x 3-1/8″ x 4-¼”

Raccoon Mini Building Blocks Set

The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this Raccoon. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

Raccoons are mischievous mammals with a characteristic white face and contrasting black fur around the eyes. Known for their intelligence and good memory, raccoons are able to solve puzzles. Create your own crafty Raccoon with these mini building blocks! 


339 pieces, Assembled size: 3-1/8″ x 3-1/8″ x 3″

Black Bear Mini Building Block Set


The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this American Black Bear. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

Why Mini building blocks? Because if you built a life-size Black Bear out of building blocks, the kit would weigh around 600 lbs. and be almost 5 feet high when you finished! It would be pretty cool, but this kit will fit under your Christmas tree and even snugly in a stocking.

302 pieces, Assembled siz: 4.24″ x 3.14″ x 2.63″

Gray Squirrel Mini Building Block Set

The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this Gray Squirrel. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

There are more than 200 species of squirrels living all around the world. You may have seen the Eastern Gray Squirrel in parks, your backyard, or in a forest in the eastern half of the United States. You’ll have a squirrelly good time building your own Gray Squirrel with these mini building blocks!

387 pieces, Assembled size: 4-9/16″ x 3-1/8″ x 3-7/16″

Peregrine Falcon Mini Building Set
The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this Peregrine Falcon. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

The noble and magical Peregrine Falcon!

366 pieces, Assembled size: 3.14″ x 4.38″ x 2.5″

Flamingo Mini Building Blocks Set

The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this Pink Flamingo. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

Add instant fun anytime, anywhere with an entertaining Pink Flamingo Mini Building Kit.

371 pieces, Assembled size: 3.13″ x 4.75″ x 6.13″

Bald Eagle Mini Building Blocks Set


The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this American Bald Eagle set. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

The Bald Eagle is one of the largest birds of prey in North America, but this set of mini building blocks is under 8″. Imagine building one life-size!


207 pieces, Assembled size: 7-1/4″ x 4″ x 3-⅜”

Bat Mini Building Blocks Set

The Backyard Naturalist has Mini Building Block sets featuring favorite birds and forest animals, like this fascinating Bat. Excellent gifts and stocking stuffers.

Learn more about Bats while building one for yourself! Bats are often misunderstood and unappreciated for all that they do. Did you know they are also native pollinators important to our human food chain? If you’re not a fan of mosquitoes, bats are your best friends. (Find out more about bats in general and bats native to Maryland in our Resource section.)

253 pieces, Assembled size: 6.29″ x 3.14″ x 2.36″