Toddlers and preschoolers love playing with blocks. In addition to developing motor skills and hand-eye coordination, block play can also help foster creativity, enhance problem-solving ability ...

A new book, Let’s Play, tasks 100 Swiss designers to play with toy blocks, then photographs the results, looking for trends. It’s a well-documented fact that architects love playing with toy ...

Data from an American nationally representative study show that children who play frequently with puzzles, blocks, and board games tend to have better spatial reasoning ability. Being able to ...

Playing with blocks may help children's spatial, math thinking. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 09 / 130924091804.htm ...

Kids can explore the concept of public sculpture in a program at the Art Institute of Chicago that lets them play with foam blocks like the granite and marble ones that make up “America’s ...

In a recent study published in Mind, Brain and Education, researchers at Temple's Infant Lab found there are some very real benefits to playing with that old toy classic — blocks. Parents and ...

He developed it based on research that showed that playing with blocks of code was a particularly effective way to teach programming concepts. Papert coined the term “constructionism” to ...

What do they have in common? A child’s imagination, sparked by block play. With UNICEF support, children across Kingston, Jamaica have been exercising their creativity and critical thinking ...

Data from a nationally representative study show that children who play frequently with puzzles, blocks, and board games tend to have better spatial reasoning ability. The research is published in ...

Data from a nationally representative study show that children who play frequently with puzzles, blocks, and board games tend to have better spatial reasoning ability. The research is published in ...