Your child can begin to develop body-mind coordination by building and playing with blocks. Blocks work your child? body physically through lifting and placement while stimulating him or her mentally through arrangement and design.1. Purchase a set of standard blocks for your child.
2. At an early age, observe your child at play.
3. Make positive comments on what your child builds.
4. Encourage your child to use different size blocks to begin exploring early spatial concepts.
5. The weights of the blocks also help develop your child? muscles and motor skills.
6. As your child grows, block-building can extend into elaborate imaginary play.
7. If you have a child that loves to design buildings and create cities or farms, take him or her to a construction site.
8. Have a discussion about how things are put together, how the cement truck pours and the dump truck dumps. Talk about how the crane moves materials from one spot to the next.
9. When you return home, act out what you saw, e.g., become the crane or dump truck and move around your "heavy" objects.
10. Playing with blocks not only supports the development of your child's bodily kinesthetic/physical skills, it also helps to develop logical thinking and design skills!
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