Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Blocks

Publication Date:

revised 3/31/2022

" "Playing with blocks is creative and fun-filled activity with endless variations and ideas.  Stack them up! Knock them down!  Build a bridge! Design a maze!

Building with blocks supports concepts like spatial reasoning, creativity, problem-solving, and math, as well as social-emotional and motor development.

 

 

PDF icon Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child - Blocks.pdf

Audience: 

  • Families

Developmental stage: 

  • 3-5

Setting: 

  • Home

Resource Type: 

  • Activity cards (playtime, daily routines)

Topic: 

  • Engineering
  • Math

Level of Intended Impact: 

  • Knowledge application

Language: 

  • English

Developer / Author: 

  • STEMIE

Routines and Everyday Activities: 

  • Playtime (indoors & outdoors)

Resources for Families: 

  • Discovery Play Activities