Benefits of Toy Building Blocks
- Which Building Blocks Are the Best and Most Beneficial ?
Toy building blocks are so popular that one's childhood is not complete without them.
One thing I love the most about child building blocks is that these toys lack of functional fixedness. There is no right or wrong way in using the child blocks. Your child can use these toys according to her imagination. In fact,your child does not have to use building blocks for building activities. She can use them in whatever ways she wants. So, not only these toys are fun, they will also dramatically increase your child's creativity and imagination.
So what are other benefits offered by wooden building blocks and other kind of blocks apart from enhancing children's imagination ?
Plenty !!
Here are the list of benefits of block plays:
- Increase hand-eye coordination (it's obvious, right ?)
- Enhance logic thinking capability.
- Enhance capability in spatial awareness.
- Improve social capability by building 'something' with friends and siblings.
- Enhance language skills, for instance by talking about the end product.
So you see, the child building blocks are really packed with 'good things'.
Should I also mention another advantage that these toys have ?
Toy building blocks can be used at different levels, which means that these toys will see many uses before your child outgrows them. Baby, toddler, and older child -- all use child building blocks. This property, coupled to the fact that these toys are durable, make toy building blocks one of the toys which offer best value for your dollars.
Which Toy Building Blocks Are the Best and Most Beneficial ?
If you were to buy only the best toy building blocks for your kids, here are what I recommend for you:
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Uncle Goose ABC Building Blocks by Lindenwood.
Why: Uncle Goose ABC building blocks are the best around. They are safe, have smooth edges, have perfect sizes and of heirloom quality.
They are suitable for older babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Benefits:
- Hand-eye coordination.
- Letter, picture and number recognition.
- Very open ended and imaginative.
- Unfinished Melissa and Doug Standard Unit Blocks
Unit blocks are toy building blocks which have different standard shapes, for instance: prism, cylinder, cubes, and so forth. They are useful to make simple structures.
Why I recommend Melissa and Doug unit blocks: These children's wooden blocks are all time favorite, safe, have nice quality and are large enough to make them stable to stack.
They are suitable for older toddlers and up.
Benefits:
- Hand-eye coordination.
- Shape recognition.
- Enhance spatial awareness.
- Very open-ended and imaginative.
- Archiquest Architectural Building Blocks.
Architectural or castle building blocks are best to make structures resembling the real building. They have standard shapes as well as specialized shapes, depending on the set, including: domes, bridges, and so forth.
Why I recommend Archiquest toy building blocks:The blocks are beautifully made and designed, and enables the older kids to make more intricate structures.
It also comes with an architectural history book which also includes building ideas. They are only suitable for 5 year olds and up.
Benefits:
- Enhance spatial awareness.
- Very open-ended and imaginative.
- Stimulate logical thinking.
- Educational.
- Citiblocs plank wooden blocks
They are toy building blocks made from wooden planks. Children are expected to build a structure out of these planks. They are most suitable for 5 years old and up.
Benefits:
- Enhance spatial awareness.
- Very open-ended and imaginative.
- Stimulate logical thinking.
- Highly educational.
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