You CAN encourage your child’s play by adding in a new toy. There are no rules, no “good jobs” and no expectations here.
#Wooden blocks for kids how to#
How to play: This is an opportunity to let your child’s imagination run wild. We often combine matchbox cars, toy animals, or small characters. What you need: Wooden blocks! Also, throw in whatever else you have around to help encourage open-ended, creative play. If you have some dominos and your kiddo has a little better fine motor skills, add some dominos. It’s probably far too advanced for younger kiddos, but there are plenty of options around the home. We sell a marble run for older children (and are even fun for adults), that can serve as part of the experiment. Build a castle and use some toilet paper and paper towel rolls for marbles to roll through. How to play: The most basic form of this is a marble run. What you need: Whatever you can find around the house
A good technique on this game as well as all of the games in this article is to model building the maze yourself first, and then let your child build their own later. A fun way to traverse the maze is with toy cars or characters. Simply build a maze using the blocks as walls. How to play: We play this game with Jenga blocks. Try to use the blocks you have to build that object. Option 2: Think of an animal, building, or any other type of object. Just remember don’t color, I mean place blocks, outside the lines! Next, have your child fill the shape leaving as little empty space as possible with the blocks. Option 1: Start with a shape, either a piece of paper, cardboard from a recycled box, or even different shapes masking taped off on the floor, and identify the shape together “we are starting with this rectangle”. How to play: You don’t need actual tangrams to play tangrams, and there are countless ways to play! What you need: You guessed it! Wooden blocks! For this game, it is helpful to have either cuts of paper or another shape surface to work on. You can say something like, “If I have three blocks in this pile and I take away one block, how many blocks are left on the pile?” Tangrams Being able to count out four blocks is an early skill, looking at a pile of four blocks and being able to identify it as a “group of four” is a whole other skill! Leveling it up you can use this game to introduce basic math concepts of addition and subtraction. Ask to sort by shape, or color, or group them by 3 or 4 to help start to identify counting and numbers. For this game, simply grab a handful of blocks and ask the child to sort them in various ways. How to play: This is a great game for two and three-year-olds, or developmentally when the child is starting to really grasp shapes, colors, and/or numbers.
What you need: Wooden blocks! That’s it! Notice a theme here? It’s sort of like leveling up the shape sorter game. As well as a no-winners or losers turn-taking game. This is a great way to challenge and build spatial thinking and geometry. Thus creating mirror structures of one another. Caregiver and child alternate who places a block on their building zone and the other person has to mirror what the other player has done.
Each player has their own building zone and own set of blocks. How to play: This is a family favorite with our three-year-old. That’s it! The only thing you need to make sure of is that you have at least two of every type of block.
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