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Let your children play with blocks! So many skills can be developed when children play with blocks and even more so when you make the time to play with them. First of all, just making the time to play with your child builds relationship and make them feel valued and important. Remember when you play with your child never tell them how to do something but rather guide them. The best way to do that is by asking open-ended questions, for example: What do you think will happen when you put this big block on the top of your tower? Or “What are you making” “How did you do that?” etc. In this way, you get your child to use his/her own words to describe their process. In doing so, you will encourage cognitive and creative thinking as well as develop their language skills. During play, you can also introduce new words such as “stack, topple, sequence, pattern” etc. In this way it also allows children to understand what the word means in real-life.
Playing with building blocks also provides a valuable opportunity to introduce children to certain maths concepts. When playing together with your child you can help your child to discover and understand concepts such as; colour, size, shape and different positions of the blocks, by commenting or asking questions. Questions such as; “let’s count together how many blocks you have used in your tower! “Can you build the same tower as mine?”, “What colour is the block on top of your tower?” “What happens when you put a small block on the bottom of your tower?” “Can you build a tower with triangle blocks?” develops cognitive skills, and creative thinking and helps children learn to understand what they are experiencing.
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Children develop many school readiness skills through the play of building blocks including hand-eye coordination, fine motor hand muscle development, language and social skills and cognitive development.
This value pack containing 55+ large pieces of building blocks is 100% compatible with the market-leading brand.
Create your own building block collection or add to your existing one.
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Classic blocks are made of high-quality wood, painted with bright colours and printed by hand. Packed in a card bucket for easy delivery and storage
Lovely wooden shapes, in assorted colours and painted textures, make lacing fun.
This jumbo box of brightly coloured wooden geometric blocks is educational as well as fun!
Children can create endless different patterns by threading the wooden beads along with the lace and combining the different shapes and colours.
All of the beads and laces can be stored in the wooden box with sliding…
