Today's easy, fun activity helps your child practice their colour and shape recognition as they use focus, concentration, coordination and basic problem solving to try and recreate a simple block construction.
Ages: 2+
Materials: Coloured Blocks
Start with a basic construction that your child would be able to recreate and explain that you're playing a copy cat game
Searching through all the blocks to try and find matching colours and shapes
I've done it. Hang on a minute... Recognising that something doesn't quite look right
That's BLUE! I don't have blue.
Very happy with herself for succeeding
Playing again. Look, same same. Green bridge.
Ok Mum, your turn to copy MY construction
Some tips:
- Simplify by matching just 1 block colour and shape and build it up to see what your child is capable of
- Extend by making more complicated constructions with extra blocks, colours, shapes, levels and so on.
- Change the game by photographing a range of constructions earlier and giving your child the pictures to try and recreate off
- Have your child make some constructions for you to copy as well so they can observe the processes you go through in order to recreate them
- Discuss the different colours and shapes. 3 dimensional shapes have different names to 2 dimensional shapes. If your child is ready/interested, talk about the names and where you'd see them in real life. eg, Most of the tall buildings in the city are rectangular prisms.
- (PS- Make sure that you do have doubles of all the blocks/colours so that your child can copy your construction exactly... I realised this after discovering that we only have 1 of a particular type of block. Much frustration searching! haha)
Debs :)
Happy playing,
Debs :)
Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
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