Playgroup Enrichment Activities
Block Play
Blocks have the potential for stimulating a broad range of creative, imaginative, constructive play, from arranging simple designs to building actual representations of such complex structures as bridges, skyscrapers, and whole neighborhoods. As in all interest areas, your involvement in children’s play is what makes block play meaningful.
Caroline Pratt, the educator who designed unit blocks in the early 1900s, cautioned that blocks will “simply remain pieces of wood unless they are infused with information gleaned from experience” (Windsor, 1996, p. 4).
Children benefit the most from their play with blocks when teachers help them to organize and express their ideas.
Caroline Pratt, the educator who designed unit blocks in the early 1900s, cautioned that blocks will “simply remain pieces of wood unless they are infused with information gleaned from experience” (Windsor, 1996, p. 4).
Children benefit the most from their play with blocks when teachers help them to organize and express their ideas.
When it comes to block play,
it’s all in the imagination.
it’s all in the imagination.