The Green Building Plate is an essential foundation for young LEGO DUPLO builders.
The Green Building Plate is an essential foundation for young LEGO DUPLO builders. This large, sturdy baseplate provides the perfect surface for creating imaginative worlds and securing those first creations.
This set is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers aged 18 months and up. It offers a simple, open-ended play experience that encourages creativity and fine motor skill development.
Skip this if you are looking for a complex building experience. This is a basic building tool, not a set with instructions; consider other DUPLO sets with specific models to build for more directed play.
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Measuring over 15 in. (38cm) square, the LEGO® DUPLO® Green Building Plate (10980) provides the ideal landscape for kids aged 18 months and up to build on, play with and display their wonderful creations.
Build preschooler skills
This 24x24-stud green baseplate is the ideal starting place for little builders. It holds bricks firmly at any angle (even upside down!), opening up an endless world of imaginative play possibilities – from grassy gardens to exotic jungles, steep mountainsides to cool, green, flying machines. And, when the building stops, the firm baseplate provides a collapse-free way to transport and display kids’ handiwork.
Playful learning for toddlers
Parents can share precious developmental milestones as LEGO DUPLO toys put open-ended fun, self-expression and confidence into young children’s hands.
YouTube reviews of baseplates, including the Green Building Plate (10980-1), are generally neutral. AFOL TV presents an alternative to LEGO baseplates for city layouts, while other channels showcase building ideas for kids using DUPLO baseplates or review the classic green baseplate from 2015.
LEGO Family offers DIY activity instructions for kids using DUPLO baseplates. AFOL TV features a solution for LEGO cities that they believe is better than LEGO baseplates.