Building Toys: Legos
are great for children of many ages. You will find that many great educational things come from building toys such as legos. First of all legos help develop your child physically. Taking the blocks and putting them together matching the bumps in the block with the holes or groves in the connecting block takes a lot of fine motor movement from your little ones hands. When taking the legos apart and putting them back together again the child is exercising their hands and their pincher fingers to develop muscles for writing. When holding a pen or pencil correctly, you are only using the thumb and the first finger. So, those two fingers and the muscles in the arm need to be exercised so that children are ready and able to write and not get tired when doing so. It is amazing what playing with
can do!
Not only do
Not only do
like legos provide fine motor development exercises but they also allow children to imagine. They take a picture in their head and try to recreate it visually in front of them. They also are able to make changes and plan. Let their imaginations go when they create a house or a street or a castle. They may all look the same to you but not to the child. Stacking and position the blocks on one another is great practice for young children. It takes some time and some mess but encourage your children to play with
. Not only for fun but for their fine motor muscle development.
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