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| Blocks activities for preschoolers |
Playing with your preschoolers is not a chore for you, it should be a joyful time. let the houseworks go, turn the TV and internet off, and play and learn with your preschoolers. Playing together can provide you and him many teachable moments. You will know your child's personality deeper and will be able to learn cues to your child's interests and strengths.
One of the simplest toys that you can play with together is wooden
blocks. Preschoolers Adore building and exploring and playing with blocks. They
quickly develop their skills to handle blocks and increase their imagination.
Playing of the preschoolers with their parents with wooden blocks will help them
get more educational benefits from their toys. blocks naturally will encourage their
math and science skills like counting, grouping, and shapes recognizing.
Parents can help their preschoolers learn other concepts that even more
difficult such as correspond when they make the child balance a structure. they
can learn them causes and effects when that same structure falls. kids love creation
and parent's suggestions can increase child's creative abilities. For example: If
they are building a house you can suggest adding a garden. The child may then
build on this idea and soon there is a whole neighborhood complete with stores,
schools and maybe a zoo. Remember to not discourage any of their ideas by
trying to make them build things realistically. Let their imaginations make it
interesting.
Here are some activities for you and your preschoolers using a
good old-fashioned set of wooden blocks.
1-Make the blocks to a story.
The parents can read their preschoolers a story. Then let them
build the blocks for that story. Such as building Rapunzel's tower or the peter
pan's pirate ship. to add alittle more details you can go back and reread parts
of the story. Ask your preshoolers questions like, "What do you think the
wicked witch's castle looked like?" You could add action characters, dolls
or stuffed animals and act out the story when you are done. This activities
will make them interested in reading, aid language development, and improve
their attentions to detail and memory in addition to all the creativity it
involves.
2- build a maze with blocks.
The maze can be made out of equivalent blocks about 2 inches for
each. Have the maze go any direction you want and be as long or big as the preschoolers
want to create. Now get a small ball and put it in the beginning of the maze
and let the child blow the ball through the maze. You can use a chaff. Take
turns with them. See who can get the ball the farthest through the maze without
stucking it. Ask them "What would happen if we were to change this part of
the maze?" Experiment and see. This activities will make them happy and
they will ask you to do it over and over.
3-building your home with blocks.
Let the child tell you how many rooms are in your home and what
are they. Let him start to build one room first. Then ask him what's another
room in our house. Let him add that room. You can ask questions like "Is
your bedroom bigger than the kitchen?" Let him make his rooms whatever
size he chooses. At this age, children will often make the most important
object to him the largest. For example, he may want the toy room or his bedroom
to be much larger than the kitchen. This could be a teachable moment. then ask
"What room comes next?" Again they may arrange rooms in their own
order. When you have all the rooms built you can add the furniture. Add his
bed, the kitchen table, the piano or even his toys. Add some little plastic
people to complete the home.
4-Build with music
Put on some music, maybe the child's favorite song. make a race of
who can build the highest tower from blocks before the music stops. Replay the
song and now build a tower together by the end of the song. Next replay the
song and see if you can connect the two towers.
5-making Block shadows
Have the child lie on the floor and place blocks in an outline
around them. Then help them up and let them see their "block shadow".
Next let them make your block shadow. Try it again having them put their arms
in a different position.
These are just a few of the fun activities you can do by
building blocks for preschoolers. A wooden block set is a perfect toy for a 3
or 4 year old child. Building with wooden blocks is an enjoyable activity for
both parent and their children and can be much more than just puting one block above
the other. So turn your TV off and get down on the floor for a fun afternoon
with your preschoolers.
