Building blocks are usually cubic wooden or plastic solid toys, usually decorated with letters or pictures on each surface, allowing for different arrangements or building activities without a variety of patterns, can develop children's intelligence, can be assembled into houses, various animals, etc.
Accumulation helps TO develop intelligence, training the child's hand-eye coordination ability, THE ARRANGEMENT of blocks, joints, rings, symmetry and so on are good for the child's intelligence. When building blocks, children must be involved in proportion, symmetry and other issues, which is conducive to the early development of children's mathematical concepts.
Product is not conducive to children's imagination, comprehensive use of a variety of different kinds of building blocks together to build real objects. It is conducive to the cultivation of their imagination and creativity
Ages 0-1: Brightly colored cloth blocks
Children before the age of 1 have not formed a real sense of the concept of space, the standard hexahedral, with a certain texture, in line with the mechanics of the principle of the building blocks, for them, is not very meaningful, so it is best to choose fun blocks. For example, cloth blocks, which are soft, have bright colors, and animal or fruit patterns, can let children perceive colors, recognize objects, develop sense of touch, etc., and do not worry about hard blocks hurt children. Of course, if no such toys are prepared, dolls, cloth animal toys, books, etc., can also play these roles. Babies like to put everything in their hands into their mouths, so whether it's wooden blocks or cloth blocks, they should be safe and non-toxic.
Ages 1-2: Lightweight blocks
More than 1 year old children space awareness is forming, will begin to size tall. Even without blocks, they like to pile everything together and have fun watching it fall down. If you draw on the blocks? Decorations such as a home with a puppy, kitten or baby doll will be more enjoyable for children to play with. Because the children's body control and hand-eye coordination ability are not very good at this time, light blocks should be selected to prevent the children from being hurt when the blocks fall down. The blocks should not be too big for children to grasp.
Age 2-3: Standard size blocks
Children more than 2 years old spatial concept, language, thinking and imagination have developed, hand movements, hand-eye coordination enhanced, can do slightly more complex things. At this point, you can give him a selection of standard blocks, such as two semicircles to form a perfect circle, two short blocks to add up to the length of a long block, etc. This kind of building block can give children more space to create and perform.
The game method
1. Don't pour out all your new blocks for your child to play with at once. This is bad for concentration, and when faced with too many things at once, it can be difficult for a child to make a choice. You can gradually increase the number of blocks according to your child's age and ability. Also note that the building block shapes provided should evolve from simple to complex.
2. If conditions permit, one corner of the room can be withdrawn as a play area, with a carpet or mat, so that children can play freely.