12 Best LEGO Sets for 5 and 6-Year-Olds

The LEGO Legoland train set includes a total of 210 pieces and several figures and accessories. Kids can enjoy building each of the train pieces themselves. This will give them a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment at the same time.

The LEGO City Passenger Train building kit will allow kids to finally build their own train and the tracks that it runs on. It contains several types of accessories in the kit to help ensure that the child is capable of generating various creative role-play scenarios. This train is not like the traditional train because it is designed to look like a more modernized passenger train version.

The LEGO City Great Vehicles Diving Yacht building provides a unique building experience. Unlike other LEGO building kits, this one allows kids to build a beautiful diving yacht that has a removable roof and a turning searchlight that will help to promote creative role-play scenarios. This kit also includes a buildable buoy, an opening treasure chest, and a seafloor scene. The kit also features two LEGO city divers, a crab, and a swordfish figure.

With this kit, budding car enthusiasts can build their own model of the McLaren Senna. We loved the realistic features like the Minifigure cockpit, interchangeable wheel rims, and a removable windshield that makes it easier to put the driver into the McLaren Senna cockpit. Kids will also have access to McLaren and Senna logo stickers for a more realistic playing experience.

The LEGO Friend Heartlake City Play Hair Salon provides kids with a quality, engaging building experience, while still providing an ending design that can help to promote various types of role-play scenarios and pair with other kits to create larger play scenarios. This building kit also includes a variety of different accessories, like a hair-washing sink, hairdressing chair, and many others.

This LEGO City building set provides kids with an active building area that is excellent for summer day creative role-play. This building set will allow kids to build the LEGO City ice cream truck and it can be played with independently or with other LEGO City playsets. The set also includes a few little builds, like the ice cream lady truck driver and a skateboard Minifigure. The ice cream truck features functioning wheels.

For kids that love the Star Wars franchise, this is one of the best LEGO sets as it will allow them to build the Mandalorian Shock troopers and their speeder bike. This set comes with a total of 102 pieces, and it is designed to be difficult enough to hold a six-year-old's interest without an adult’s assistance. The set is large enough that multiple kids can play with the set at the same time, and it comes with easy-to-follow instructions.

This starter course building kit is designed to be compatible with various other Super Mario expansion sets, which can help to enhance the overall building challenge and levels of difficulty for kids as they get better and more advanced in their skills. We love the possibilities this set gives to five and six-year-olds. It also makes for a great gift.

This set includes enough pieces to create a stunt plane and two launchable ripcord helicopters that are capable of slight flight. Each of these aircraft vehicles provides kids with a vivid role-playing experience that is creative and exciting. The vehicles come with spinnable propellers and cockpits that the Minifigures can get into. The helicopters have a ripcord device that even allows them to fly.

The LEGO City Ocean Exploration Base playset comes equipped with a buildable submarine, and the playset includes five diver Minifigures, a stingray, and a hammerhead shark figure to add to the various play scenarios that kids can engage in.

This building kit is designed for girls and boys that enjoy building with LEGOs and playing with Friends characters. This kit is focused on the beach house, and it comes with two Minifigures and 444 pieces for kids to play with and enjoy. They can build a two-story beach house and enjoy all of the various accessories that can add to the overall playing experience of this building kit.

This is an excellent LEGO building experience for any kid that likes Disney. The set contains a total of 300 pieces and allows kids to build the beautiful forest cottage where Aurora was raised by her three fairy godmothers who only wanted to protect her from Maleficent. The two-story cottage has various features and accessories that help to promote creative play. This building set also comes with two mini-doll figures, Aurora and Maleficent.