Why does the baby love to play with building blocks?
In this era, no matter whether you have money or not, whether you are in the city or the countryside, whether you are a boy or a girl, almost every family has bought building blocks for their children. Why are building blocks so popular?
1. Because it's fun, babies love to play.
2. Because of its versatility, it can be expensive or cheap, and you can find substitutes in your daily life without spending money.
3. Because there is no space limit for playing with building blocks, you can play anywhere.
What are the benefits of baby playing with building blocks?
1. Promote baby's rough movements and the development of big muscles.
Before the age of three, the baby is in a critical period of rough movements and formal development of big muscles. Babies of this age can train rough movements or big muscles by carrying, stacking, disassembling and rebuilding big blocks.
2. Promote the development of fine movements and small muscles.
2-3-year-old baby's fine movements and small muscles are ready for development, and the purpose of training small muscles can be achieved by grasping, holding and placing small blocks.
3. Promote cognitive development
The baby before the age of 2 belongs to the sensory action period, at which time the baby understands the world through vision, hearing and touch.
The use of building blocks can also promote the cognitive range, such as the color of building blocks, the sound of building blocks hitting each other, the sound of building blocks hitting different objects, and the feeling of holding building blocks.
Cultivating creativity
The key period of creativity development lies in the baby, and building blocks can be said to be one of the important toys to develop creativity. By stacking, arranging and encouraging all kinds of building blocks, the baby will become the best designer and builder.
Step 5 improve intelligence
A person's intellectual development, in addition to congenital inheritance, also depends on the acquired stimulation.
Babies playing with building blocks can meet this demand. For example, the ability of spatial relations can be improved through the operation of building blocks. Building blocks can be used to build a bridge, a train (line), or a house, a complex castle (three-dimensional space).
6. Emotional cultivation
The main content of baby's life is games. Playing with building blocks can make you feel happy.
Babies like to play and live a happy life every day, which helps to cultivate good sentiments.
7. Cultivate a good parent-child relationship
Babies like to play with building blocks. If parents can often play with their children, it will naturally help to cultivate parent-child relationship.
Especially for babies under 3 years old, it is necessary for parents to intervene when their movements are not very mature and their thinking ability is not very developed.
How should babies of different ages play?
1 baby. 6 months
Newborn babies need visual stimulation. Mothers can buy some brightly colored building blocks, so that when watching their mothers holding their babies, they can hold beautiful building blocks and sway in front of them, or hang them on the baby's bedside or cradle to make him feel lonely. These are all good visual stimuli.
You can also knock each other with building blocks, or knock other objects with building blocks to make different sounds, which is a good auditory stimulus.
You can take some building blocks of different materials and let your baby hold them, so that your baby can initially experience the feeling of hard and soft.
Infants from 2.6 to 12 months old
During this period, the baby has slowly learned to sit and climb, and some even began to learn to stand. At this point, the baby's grip strength has developed well.
How to play: You can put the building blocks in front of the baby. When a baby sees beautiful building blocks, he will naturally climb forward and left and right.
By 10 month, you can put colorful building blocks on the sofa or bed to attract your baby to stand up.
In addition, the mother can play with the baby, and can put some small building blocks in front of the baby, so that the baby can pick up and put down the game, change hands and change different building blocks.
3. 12 months to 2 years old baby
At this time, the baby has begun to learn to walk, and it is getting more and more stable.
Suggested play: You can put building blocks in front of the baby 1 to 2 meters to induce the baby to walk.
Usually, large plastic building blocks are suitable for children to play with. He can walk with big blocks, and he will pile them high and enjoy it.
The baby may deliberately push down the high-piled building blocks. When the building blocks fall to the ground, the baby will clap his hands and laugh happily, and then pile them up and push them down.
4.2-3 year old baby
At this time, the baby can already walk well, and the hand motor skills are also developing rapidly.
Mother can provide all kinds of building blocks for children to play with. Children can build houses, roads and all kinds of imaginary things. They can also play counting games with children, one building block and two building blocks. ...
Children between 5.3 and 5 years old
At this time, the baby has been able to show good social behavior, and language intelligence and interpersonal intelligence are also in an important development period.
Babies of this age will play various life simulation games with toys such as building blocks. Mothers can provide babies with all kinds of building blocks and other toys. Babies may build a town with building blocks and add toy cars. Imagine that in a busy town, cars come and go.
Or maybe the baby will build a forest with building blocks and live with a group of dinosaurs, and the mother should encourage the creativity of the child.
When the child is older, parents will guide the child to use waste.
We might as well collect different soap and cosmetics boxes, beverage boxes and napkin boxes, small household appliances boxes and so on at home. Big boxes and small boxes can be used as building blocks for play.
This kind of play doesn't cost money, and it is easy to get. It can be collected almost every day, with various shapes and colors. I'm sure the children will like it.