Welcome to the last segment of our Play Ideas Series with #100daysofplay. We’ve covered role play, active play, sensory play, and arts and crafts. Now we are moving on to construction play.
Construction play is any kind of play where children manipulate materials to make one thing out of another, or any set of things. Most types of construction play are great for developing fine motor skills, allowing children to practise manipulating small objects in a fun way. This play also gives an outlet for creativity, and gives children a sense of pride when they see all the cool things that they have created!
Construction Play Ideas
- Lego type bricks, size depending on your child’s age and stage.
- Bristle Bricks
- Wooden Blocks
- Building with toothpicks and marshmallows
- Building with loose parts
- Building with connecting gears
- Making a very basic electrical circuit
- Putting together a wooden train track
- Experimenting with layouts for a marble run
- Playing with a tangram
- Building with cardboard boxes
- Using cork blocks
- Building with natural materials: cut tree stumps, twigs and sticks
- Using magnetic blocks (any type! Eg Kor Geomag)
- Make a furniture den
- Build with styro foam and straws
- Stacking plastic cups
- Building sand castles
- Helping to put together a basic toy or furniture with instructions
- Tinkering with basic tools
- Explore other types of construction toys like KNex, Artec Blocks or wooden construction sets
- Sewing
- Knitting
- Build your own board game
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