Intellectually, building blocks toys help children learn across many academic subjects. Young children develop their vocabularies as they learn to describe sizes, shapes, and positions. Preschoolers and kindergarteners develop math skills by grouping, adding, subtracting and eventually multiplying with cardboard building blocks. Older children make early experiments with gravity, balance, and geometry.
Children value their own block structures whether or not they represent specific things. Rather than asking a child, “What did you make?” say, “Tell me about what you made.” This will encourage a dialog and offer the child new opportunities to explore.
When giving a younger child his first set of building blocks toys he will move them around from place to place and stack the building blocks. As he gets older and more creative the structures he creates will be all his own and you will soon know that this is the one of the best educational kids toys he will own.
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