Playing the building blocks is a kind of learning style with comprehensive promotion of growth. Whether it is traditional wooden building blocks, or modern jigsaw blocks and challenging block puzzles, and they can help children grow in many aspects.
7 benefits of playing with building blocks
1. Strengthen fine motor skills
Fine motor skills can directly influence writing, drawing, and other development of daily abilities.
Children will practice fingers repeatedly and hand’s small muscle groups when children are grasping, stacking, whirling, laying the building blocks. These actions can improve children’s hand-eye coordination and control force.
2. Promote cognitive development
Building the block games will naturally inspire thinking deeply. When the building blocks are collapsing, children can think "Why does it collapse?" this is a learning process of causal relationship.
Children also think about how to make the structure more stable, so then it can exercise logical thinking and problem-solving ability.
3. Inspire creativity and imagination
The building blocks are an open toy, it is not has fixed gameplay. Children can build a house, a bridge, an animal, even a fantasy city.
Free creation can strengthen children’s self-confidence and develop an innovative thinking ability.
4. Train spatial perception ability
When laying and building the building blocks, children will gradually understand size, shape, scale, and spatial relationships like "up, down, inside, outside".
And when children finish a block puzzle, it also involves pattern recognition and spatial reasoning.
5. Improve focus and patience
Building a structure needs some time and adjust repeatedly. If the building blocks are falling over, children will building it again, this process can help children to practice persistence.
The block puzzle needs to keep focus and patience. And the focus is an important basis of academic performance and emotion management.
6. Promote social contact and cooperation ability
When children are the playing building blocks together, they will share ideas, division of labor, and cooperation, learning to take turns and share.
It can develop children’s communication skills and the spirit of teamwork, and prepare for group study.
7. Strengthen self-confidence and emotional development
Children will get a strong sense of achievement when they finish a work or successfully solve a block puzzle.
It can help kids to face a larger learning challenge by small challenge to build psychological resilience.
Play with children: Let the growth more meaningful
Parents can join in building with the building blocks, and also can finish a work together.
This kind of parent-child play not only adds fun, but also leads the way of solving the problems, let all of children learning to express and think in the interaction.
Playing with building blocks is a simple but a valuable growth approach. It not only brings fun, but also promotes children’s fine motor skills, cognitive development, creativity, spatial thinking, focus, social skills and confidence growth.
FAQ
Q: What is a building block?
A: Building blocks are building block toys with assembleable, stacking, and building, building blocks usually made of plastic, wood, magnetic materials, and suitable for children and adult develop creativity and hands-on ability.
Q: What are the types of building blocks?
A: Standard interlocking blocks(like LEGO, Mega Blocks)
Wooden building blocks(large particles, suitable for young children)
Magnetic building blocks(magnetic splicing, easy to adsorb)
Soft foam building blocks(safe, light, suitable for infants)
Q: How to clean the building block?
A: Plastic building blocks: Use warm water and neutral detergent to clean and dry in the air.
Wooden building block: Use a dry cloth to wipe, and avoid soaking.
Magnetic building blocks: Use a wet cloth to wipe and avoid magnetic strip rust.
Q: What age is playing with building blocks suitable for children?
A: Children over 1 year of age can choose large safety building blocks and Children over 3 years of age can try more complex structures. School-aged child suitable for challenging block puzzle and theme building.
Q: What should you pay attention to when buying building blocks?
A: Materials safety(non-toxic, not have BPA).
Grain size of the right age.
Is it officially certified or safety standards(like ASTM, EN71)
Compatibility: Different brand building blocks may not be compatible.
Q: Can you play the building blocks with other toys?
A: It is possible, but be careful about size, material quality and safety.
Magnetic building blocks and electronic devices need to keep a safe distance.
Q: Are the building blocks really better than the electronic products?
A: The entity building blocks offer real tactile sensation, space operation and social interaction, more favorable development of multiple brain regions.
Q: How long to play with the building blocks suitable for?
A: Suggest highly quality play time about 20–40 minutes per day, and the key is focus and interaction, not duration.
Q: How should parents join in?
A: Encourage kids to take the lead in creativity, parents can responsible for asking questions and leading, rather than finishing building for the children.
