Happy Lego Laid Upwards Together With Knock Downwards
December 18, 2018
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One matter that LEGO play is NOT at our identify is quiet. My kids honey to ready things in addition to hence they also love to knock them down.
This calendar week for LEGO Week nosotros volition endure sharing several playful learning activities alongside you lot using LEGO in addition to LEGO DUPLO bricks. Although our LEGO calendar week posts are primarily for kids ages 3-5, some tin past times modified for younger or older kids.
Although my kids honey to pass nearly of the twenty-four hours doing complimentary edifice activities in addition to but creating alongside LEGOs even hence they want, they also honey coming upwards alongside featherbrained or unique activities to get alongside our LEGOs... in addition to I create too. This calendar week we'll endure sharing some of the action ideas nosotros came upwards alongside together.
Our start persuasion to part this calendar week is a LEGO Build in addition to Knock Down activity.
This action combines a few of our electrical flow favorite things... numbers, edifice towers, in addition to knocking things down! My 1 twelvemonth former LOVES to knock downwards the LEGO towers that my large kids ready in addition to sometimes they similar to bring together inwards too. This was a fun agency for everyone to play together!
Materials Needed: several handfuls of LEGO or LEGO DUPLO, notecards, markers, painters tape, in addition to a soft ball or two.
Directions:
To start off this action I wrote several numbers on notecards. I wrote a diversity of numbers 1-10 for my three twelvemonth former in addition to hence numbers 10-30 for my older son. Then I taped the cards to the flooring using painter's tape.
Next nosotros grabbed some soft in addition to semi-soft balls to play with. They sat unopen past times piece nosotros did our break build!
To get alongside each tyke chose a numbered notecard to start alongside in addition to they built a tower to represent the break on the card. For example, if the carte du jour said 3, they built a tower using three LEGO bricks.
After the kids built several towers they called out the break tower they wanted to knock downwards in addition to threw their soft ball at it to get in addition to knock it down.
It was pretty funny to scout the kids trying to knock downwards their towers in addition to hitting them but correct alongside the balls. The thinner the tower... the harder they had to concentrate. This was actually peachy mitt optic coordination practice.
After they knocked downwards their towers, they rebuilt them inwards dissimilar ways.
One of the principal reasons why I liked this action was that it served every bit a springboard for to a greater extent than creating. Sometimes my kids run out of ideas of things that they desire to build... this semi-organized action got them thinking differently in addition to focused less on having their creations await precisely similar they wanted them to await (a castle or a zoo or whatever) in addition to to a greater extent than on counting the bricks in addition to creatively finding ways to work the bricks they chose to brand a random creation.
Note: If you lot don't desire LEGOs crashing some your house, you lot could ready these on direct identify of carpeting hence that they are quieter when they fall... or but skip the knock downwards purpose altogether!
If you lot desire to include your littler kids, brand certain you lot work LEGO DUPLO bricks since the littler LEGO brick pieces tin endure choking hazards. While my bigger kids ready independently I volition oftentimes ready together alongside my 1 twelvemonth old. He hands me the pieces in addition to I add together them to our creation in addition to sometimes he adds them too. Once our creation is finished, he loves to bring together inwards alongside knocking things down!
Are you lot looking for to a greater extent than LEGO edifice activities to try? Here are a few others that are cool for 3-5 twelvemonth olds.
- Frozen LEGOs from eLeMeNP P Kids
- 6 LEGO DUPLO Preschool Activities via No Time for Flashcards
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