Fancy building your own London Eye, meccano-style? Or maybe you're more of a Lego-man? Building's not just for grown-ups, as toy manufacturers have known for generations. Kids love to build things up - and knock them down too. And there's plenty of construction toys available on the Construction Toys Construction Site. It's just a pity they're only available in America...

Ever been 'caught short'? No, not in that way, I mean caught without a tool on you. Well, if you have, there is a whole world of small credit card sized tool kits which could help you out. BuildersBox has found what it thinks is the best, the Tool Logic range of slim card multi-tools.

Available from a variety of British retailers, the US company supplies emergency kits for use when stuck in a car in a dark wood in the middle of nowhere with strange noises all around you. A handy LED light will help you to navigate the darkness and the knives will assist you in warding off the enormous grizzly bears that will want to have you for dinner.

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Offering a range of construction and building related t-shirts, shorts, socks, pants, and, ahem, thongs, cafepress.com will let you shout loudly and proudly that you are a builder.

Slogans such as 'My daddy has more tools than your daddy', 'Let's get plastered!' and 'I work to support my woodworking habit' can be applied to a comprehensive range of caps, hooded sweaters, t-shirts, polo shirts, sleeveless t-shirts, trousers, shorts, pants, bibs, stickers, posters, and, among other products, a dog t-shirt. Cool. Who could possibly say no to that?

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Cafe Press builder-related clothing/accessories
'Builders Rock!' clothing
Children clothing/accessories

For all of you that have kids, this may be the ideal Christmas present. Sorry to mention the dreaded word so far from its date, but this was just too good to miss. Made by the aptly named American company 'Flying Peas', these construction 'tools' will lighten up the roughest of sustenance.