Building block toy is a common kind of educational toys, teach baby playing with blocks, it can promote parent-child communication, can also be educational for baby.
There are some differences in guiding different age children play with building blocks.
For 1-2 years old baby, they started playing with blocks, parents can let the baby observe firstly, then inspire and help your baby use bricks to build a tower or a train, also can teach baby to know the shape and color of blocks.
For 3-4 years old baby, parents should increase the difficulty of playing with blocks. On the one hand, teach the baby the basic method of building blocks, such as how to maintain the stability of structures, such as how to match different shaped blocks to use. On the other hand, teach your baby building blocks according to the existing pattern, training baby’s observation ability.
For 5 to 6 years old baby, we should pay attention to guide the baby play their imagination, encourage baby build works according to their wishes , no matter how childish in adults view, we should also affirm and encourage, train baby’s purpose of doing things and creativity.
Blocks, besides can get into all sorts of objects, also a good tool for baby to learn math. It can help the baby to know the relationship between the various geometric shapes, also can let the baby classificate blocks in accordance with the building shape, color, length and size, deepen the understanding of geometric shapes and math concepts.