Block every shot: Playing with the block is important

“Building blocks are the blocks of development “!

 With smartphones and the digital world taking over everything: the innocence development and childhood, the old-fashioned building block toys have been under-estimated. This age-old toy is as important as technologically advanced modern games.

Have you ever wondered that blocks play an integral role in maintaining development and act as a precursor of underpinning an understanding of the pattern of development is essential for children to reach their full potential?

You really can't even imagine how basic cubes, blocks, and other shapes of brightly colored wood and plastic. As an integral component of a child's toy box, blocks have staying power because they are so wide-ranging, versatile learning experiences for young children.

 It’s open-ended, creative, and highly evolving Let's take a closer look at reasons why building blocks for kids are such an iconic plaything model

Spatial concepts

Kindergarten learns about spatial awareness when they move, place, and arrange blocks. When children build structures and talk about them, they get a chance to use spatial vocabulary like “under”, “over”, “between”, “on top of” and “inside”,” what”, “where”, hold”.. You can help them practice spatial vocabulary with questions like, “Where did you put the blue block?”, how many blocks have you used?

Improved creativity

Creativity begins early in life when it comes to kids. Their understanding and learning new things are roller caster for kids. Through exposing them to building blocks your kid will be able to start thinking creatively at a tender age. Slowly you will realize that your kids will start creating different structures using the toys. with blocks child will able to create different things which might be creative sometimes ways of telling things.  This will help to stimulate their creative mind. Generally speaking, building blocks offer a great base to encourage a kid’s creative abilities at a tender age.

Enhance mathematical skills 

it has been well documented in many kinds of research that children learn better through doing, through touch and feel. Feeling the blocks and getting to know every corner and edge enhances their ability to learn shapes and maths concepts like size, shape, and weight (depending on the types of blocks). their manipulating skills of hands has also been improved

Building towers and watching it topple over is a great way for children to understand the best use of each block depending on their shape and height. And remember, shapes all have a purpose in this world. Tires are circles, doors are rectangles, and squares are windows. So playing with blocks can help children learn about which shapes are best suited to a particular purpose.

Everyday useful objects shapes have been taught via blocks that enhance memory retention power of kids.

Cooperative play

need I say more? I don’t want to play with him? parents struggle to involve their kids with other kids and teach sharing, helping traits to their children playing with another child/ children can get pretty tricky sometimes, particularly if they want the same toy at the same time. Haven’t we all been there?

The great news is that blocks encourage cooperative play. Children can work with a friend to build something special. Coordinating and negotiating where the blocks will go, which colors to use, how they hope it will function, or look. Lots of talking and navigating through the building process are so valuable to team-building skills and vital for later in life.

Fine Motor Skills 

 firstly, just recapitulating playing with blocks allows children to develop and improve both their fine and gross motor skills. As they reach for, lift, move, manipulate and build with the blocks it strengthens their fingers, hands, and arms. It also assists in developing hand-eye coordination and understanding of hold, picks, and release. Bonus!

Intellectual development

 Unit block building involves concrete operations such as one-to-one correspondence, counting, matching, sorting, fitting blocks to spaces, and using fractional parts of a whole in meaningful relationships, all with that creative child purpose so important to motivation. Unit blocks encourage productive thinking and experimentation; a child often rebuilds until she’s satisfied.you can play and make your child learn many games.

Sense of Responsibility

Blocks are usually sold in groups of multiples and once children are provided with them, they inculcate a sense of responsibility by making efforts not to lose them or separate them. They learn to collect and stack back into the box and this develops their sense of ownership and organization as well. This will make your child realize the organization’s skills.

Imagination

Blocks are not inherently representative of building-like structures, even though they’re often used to construct models of them. This means children can imagine them to be whatever they want, encouraging creative play. Block play supports children’s social-emotional development and also teaches critical skills in problem-solving, math, engineering, creative thinking, and more. Blocks provide great learning experiences in our classrooms, but they are also an activity you can easily do at home. Just make sure your children have plenty of space to build and be active!

Emotional Development

Development toward personality integration Strong, positive feelings about the self in many roles and many skills have improved with block, Ability to meet new situations with resourcefulness that is the ability to encounter many situations  Ability to sustain interest and overcome frustration because it helps in achieving all aspects of development .the child may learn the concept of waiting, overcome fear, learn the passion of victory, learn the ability to fight.   Achieving an openness and sensitivity to an array of feelings in oneself and in others (humor, sadness, joy, tension, anger, excitement, peace, compassion. etc.) and appropriate, Conscious self-control Joy and vitality toward an intuitive/rational, loving view of one’s world.

Cognitive Development

Relationship thinking (cause and effect; simple classifying; the relatedness of objects, feelings, activities) Concrete use of counting and one-to-one correspondence, awareness and use of simple shapes by which children can communicate with parents and peer group about shapes learning concept, single attribute classification, and functional awareness of simple fractions and multiples of the hands-on unit block Knowing and using colors with purpose and satisfaction Increased joy and skill in discovery, in active learning, in striving to find information needed for one purpose. Pleasure and competence in effective communication (in talking, in listening, in reflecting the value of others’ thinking) Experiencing one’s own and others’ intuitive knowledge with increasing respect and emotional strength has improved

Perseverance

Most importantly certainly not least, and my favorite role of blocks is perseverance

I have seen parents, children, and students how they give up easily when challenged or unsure. It is a really important skill in LIFE to be persistent when faced with challenges or problems to solve. Building with blocks requires perseverance determination, endurance, and patience when the tower keeps falling when more blocks need to complete the building, or the shape doesn't look quite right.

Your child will have an inner voice as we all have, we don’t know how it develops but if I talk about building block activity Yes! many things which I mentioned above  can be achieved  in your child 

Playing with the blocks help your child to learn to play and to collaborate!

The more your child is exposed to new ventures the more he can grow with resilience and can become an abstract thinker!

Now after understanding all about block go to market start playing with your kids to help them to grow explore and create!

I am attaching a link from where you can buy blocks else you can go to the market to purchase but trust me to try this you and your child bond will also become strong and else everything you will experience!

Happy learning!