Let your imagination run wild with building blocks
If you could provide a toy that was intellectually stimulating, you would want it to help children develop their vocabularies as they learn to describe sizes, shapes, and positions. You would want math skills developed through the process of grouping, adding, and subtracting, and scientific method practices developed as your child experiences gravity, balance, physics and geometry.
You would want the perfect toy to have creative benefits: that is, children would receive creative stimulation by making their own designs. You would want this toy to offer physical benefits as well. It would build strength in a child’s fingers and hands, and improve eye-hand coordination.
The all-in-one super incredible, amazing toy?
Blocks.
That’s it. Any size, any shape. You might like the Deluxe Jumbo Cardboard Blocks (40 Piece) by Melissa and Doug or the back to basics set Standard Unit Wood Building Blocks, 60 Piece, by Melissa and Doug.
What’s not to love about blocks? They can become an airport, a grocery store, a space station or even a petting zoo for Martians. Don’t ask. If you don’t have a basic block set, you need one. Toddlers can start by stacking and elementary-age children can incorporate puppets, cars, dolls and action figures into the play.
And if you do have a set, step it up a notch and add some new pieces. See what kinds of buildings your child can design if you add the Architectural Wood Building Blocks, 44 Piece, by Melissa and Doug. The only limit? His or her imagination.
Author: Angie B.
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