The building blocks are usually cubic wooden or plastic solid toys, generally decorated with letters or drawings on each surface, allowing different arrangements or construction activities. There are various types of building blocks, which can develop children’s intelligence, can be built into houses, various animals Wait.
Building blocks help develop intelligence, train children’s hand-eye coordination, arrangement, joining, ringing, symmetry, etc. in the building blocks are good for children’s intelligence. When building blocks, children must involve issues such as proportion and symmetry, which is conducive to the early cultivation of the concept of child counting.
The building blocks are conducive to children’s imagination, and a variety of different types of building blocks are used to build physical objects together. Conducive to the cultivation of their imagination and creativity.
0-1 years: colorful cloth blocks Children before the age of 1 have not yet formed the concept of space in the true sense. The standard hexahedrons, which have a certain texture and conform to the principles of mechanics, are not very meaningful to them, so it is best to choose interesting blocks. Such as cloth building blocks, it is soft, with bright colors, as well as animal or fruit patterns, so that children can perceive color, recognize objects, develop touch, etc., and do not have to worry about hard blocks hurting children. Of course, if such toys are not prepared, dolls, stuffed animals, books, etc. can also play these roles. Babies like to put everything in their mouths, so whether they are wooden blocks or cloth blocks, they must be safe and non-toxic.
1-2 years: light building blocks Children more than 1 year old are developing spatial awareness and are beginning to be taller. Even if there are no building blocks, they like to pile everything together and then happily watch it fall. If you draw on the building blocks? There are decorations such as a puppy, kitten, or doll’s home, and children will enjoy playing more. Because the child’s physical control and hand-eye coordination are not very good during this period, choose lightweight building blocks to prevent the children from being injured when the building blocks collapse. The building blocks should not be too large for children to grasp.
2-3 years: standard size building blocks Children over 2 years of age have developed spatial concepts, language, thinking and imagination, and their hand movements and hand-eye coordination have been enhanced, allowing them to do slightly more complicated things. At this time, you can choose standard bricks for him, for example, two semicircles exactly match into a perfect circle, and the length of two short bricks is exactly equal to one long brick, and so on. Such building blocks can give children more creative and expressive space.
Inspiration Wisdom 1. Exercise hand-eye coordination Children need to use their hands dexterously when stacking wood, so it can promote the development of fine movements. Stacking scattered bricks into complex objects can also exercise hand-eye coordination.
2. Cultivate observation Objects such as houses built by children are actually common in life. They must first learn to observe, and then use the building blocks to show things observed in daily life during the process of playing. Observation develops unknowingly.
3. Cultivate communication skills It’s better to let the children build blocks with other children, this is more fun than playing alone. In addition, children build blocks together and inspire each other, so they will play more seriously, which is also good for developing children’s ability to get along with others.
4. The process of making children more confident in building blocks can be completely controlled by the children themselves, which will bring children satisfaction and self-confidence.
5. In the process of playing with building blocks, children can also learn a lot of mathematical knowledge, develop a sense of space, imagination, creativity, and language skills.
Recognize geometry The shapes, sizes, and lengths of the blocks are different. Children can distinguish geometric shapes, such as cuboids, cubes, cylinders, and so on. Standard blocks have a certain size and proportion, and children can perceive different shapes, proportions, sizes, thicknesses, heights, lengths, etc. of the blocks during the fiddling process.