Abstract: A toy brick maker and associated methods makes a compound brick having a body shaped as a rectangular prism with a first texture on a bottom surface of the compound brick and a second texture on a top surface of the compound brick. The brick maker includes a base portion, a cutter portion, and a plunder portion. The base portion has a flat surface for flattening a malleable compound into a slab of uniform thickness and has a first imprint surface for imprinting the first texture. The cutter portion is configured for cutting a quantity of compound from the slab and to form sides of the compound brick. The plunger portion has a second imprint surface to compress the quantity of compound within the cutter portion against the first imprint surface to form the sides, first texture, and second texture of the compound brick.