Building blocks are the best early education toys to cultivate imagination and creativity.

Building blocks are one of the most enduring children's toys , and every child's growth is indispensable. Many children's toys lack plasticity, and they will get tired after playing for a while, and the blocks can be spliced ​​to achieve multiple possibilities and play an important role in the growth of children.

Parents abroad have pointed out that building blocks are the best early childhood toys. First of all, playing with blocks helps your child's cognitive development. 1. Help children learn to observe and develop cognition. Using building blocks to build what you see everyday, you must carefully observe, compare, and summarize the characteristics of the items. The observation process also enriches the children's understanding of themselves and the world. 2. Develop logical thinking skills. Playing blocks will touch the logical concepts of classification, comparison, symmetry, arrangement, size, length and length. The construction sequence, shape and color matching also run through the game. 3. Cultivate spatial thinking. When you play with blocks, you need to form a spatial imagination in your brain, and you will recognize the spatial composition of the items and their relationships. 4. Cultivate system thinking. Playing blocks is a process from fragmentation to the whole, and children can get a glimpse of the relationship between the whole and the part. 5. Inspire creativity. Secondly, building blocks help to develop children's social attributes. By playing with others, they can cultivate children's social skills such as communication, sharing and cooperation. Again, playing with blocks can help your child form a good personality. There are no fixed rules for the play of the blocks, and less will make the children feel frustrated, so that the children can play freely and deal with the daily emotions. In addition, the approval of the display of the work is also the process of the child's self-confidence.

For children of different ages, the choice of building blocks and the way parents play with them should be focused.

For children under 2 years old, you can choose bright and contrasting blocks, which will help your baby's interest. However, babies under the age of 2 will take the bite directly, and it is easy to throw toys, so the fall resistance and safety of the building blocks are more important. In addition, to avoid children hurting themselves when crawling or learning, the edges of the blocks should be round and the number should not be too much. Parents play with their children, teach children how to distinguish colors, sizes, shapes, and learn to build simple items, such as small doors, small houses, and so on.

Children aged 2 to 3 years old have increased thinking and reasoning skills, and the number of blocks can be increased for him to play. Parents can work with their children to build relatively complex items, such as small pistols, boats, etc., and encourage him to create.

Children over the age of 3 like to imagine and start to create their own. Lego bricks with bumps on one end and insertable holes on the other are more suitable for them. At this time, parents can observe and encourage the main, let the children play their creativity, and should not be over-guided. If you can't understand the child's work, you can ask him to express his thoughts. Don't judge too early, after careful observation, you will be pleasantly surprised by his imagination and creativity.

Original title: Building blocks are the best early education toys

Ma Jianwen, Chairman of the Psychological Counseling Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Social Medical Research Association