Block Play In A Toddler Class

Block play is an important tool in early years that helps build various skills, from physical, to cognitive, and everything in between. Let’s take a look at how block play unravels in a toddler classroom.

Stages of block play:

Facilitators take on the role of a playmate to promote exploration and inquiry during play. Block play often prompts imaginative play among children. Aabhyuday made a swimming pool, while Aadya built her own house.

The process of block play - stacking, bridging, creating a variety of structures isn’t limited to wooden blocks. It often extends to tools, like magna tiles and lego blocks as well.

Children often challenge themselves to stack towers taller than themselves. They invite their peers and play mates to join them in building complex structures.

Overall, block play contributes heavily to development in children that are attached to their physical, cognitive, social, emotional and executive functioning skills.
Block play is as simple, yet a powerful tool through which children learn mathematical concepts very naturally when they immerse in experimenting and exploring different weights, sizes and shapes of the wooden blocks,lego or magna tiles.