Benefits of Wooden Building Blocks
Encourage creativity and imagination
A wooden block can become a house, castle, bridge, shop, boat or anything a child dreams up. Open-ended toys encourage children to invent their own stories and worlds rather than simply following a set of instructions.
Develop problem-solving skills
Building, balancing, stacking and rebuilding naturally introduce children to concepts such as stability, size, shape, weight and cause and effect. When a tower falls, children learn to try again and find a new solution.
Strengthen fine motor skills
Picking up, positioning, stacking and connecting pieces helps develop hand strength, dexterity, coordination and control—skills that support everyday tasks such as drawing, writing, dressing and using utensils.
Build hand-eye coordination
Children learn to judge distance, position and movement as they carefully place one piece on another or construct a particular shape.
Introduce early mathematical concepts
Without feeling like a lesson, blocks expose children to counting, sorting, comparing, patterns, symmetry, shapes, measurement and spatial relationships.
These beautiful plain Beech blocks are the same dimensions as all our other blocks (Bitcoins, Dutch Gables) and will assist in building even bigger and better!
There are 10 rectangular blocks of 10x2.5x5cm, 12 square blocks of 5x5x2.5cm and 8 Half blocks of 2.5x2.5x10cm.
All presented in a wooden tray - Another beautiful, practical, heirloom toy by Papoose Toys