Amazon's LEGO Duplo Deal Today Is the Perfect First Set to Buy a Toddler

Amazon is running a back-to-school sale on LEGO sets for kids today, and there's one Duplo deal that I just had to grab for my 2-year-old son. The Caring for Animals at the Farm set has dropped down to $34.99 after a 30% discount. LEGO Duplo blocks are surprisingly expensive, but this is the biggest price drop I've seen on this set all year. We already have a big plastic bin of old knock-off Duplo bricks that my son has started showing interest in, but I think this farm-themed set is going to blow his mind. It's got two horses, two cows, a chicken, a sheep, and a cat. The LEGO Duplo line of sets are made for a variety of different stages of development. The earliest recommend age LEGO has sets for is 18 months, scaling up to age 5. This particular set has a recommended age of 2+, which is why it includes more figures than the basic 18-month-old sets. It may seem like six months doesn't make that much of a difference, but I've only recently become confident that my son won't actually try to eat that chicken as soon as he sees it. He turned 2 back in May, and has really been rapidly advancing his fine motor skills. There are quite a few 2+ Duplo sets that connect to major Disney fran