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BLOCK SUBSTITUTES
If you do not have wooden blocks, here are some block suggestions.
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Cardboard boxes – such as; cereal boxes, shoe boxes, etc. Be sure to tape down all openings. |
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Egg Carton – these are fun to stack and store small toys inside. |
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Picture Cubes – filled with family photos are fun to stack. |
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Stackable Plastic Containers – such as those used for storing food or the kind you get when purchasing diaper wipes. |
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Rectangular Sponges – these are inexpensive and very safe for beginning blocks. |
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Foam pieces – square or rectangular.
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BLOCK BRIDES AND TUNNELS
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Provide your child with small cars and some blocks. |
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Show they how to stack their blocks to make a bridge. |
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Encourage them to drive their cars over the bridge or under the bridge. |
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UP AND DOWN
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Help your child make a tower of wooden blocks. |
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Talk about how you are building up the blocks. |
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Perhaps sing one of the block songs below. |
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Then let your toddler knock the tower down.
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RED TOWER, BLUE TOWER
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Use plastic, interlocking blocks to help your toddler build a tower with only red blocks. |
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Then encourage her to build a tower using only blue interlocking blocks. |
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Count the blocks in each tower. |
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Have your child point to the red tower, then point to the blue tower. |
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BLOCK PRINTING
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Make a paint pad by folding a paper towel, placing it on a plate and pouring on a small amount of tempera paint. |
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Show your toddler how to press one side of plastic, interlocking block onto the paint pad and then onto a sheet of paper to make a print. |
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Let your child try printing each side of the block. |
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Talk about the different prints each side makes.
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BLOCK PAIRS
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Look through a box of wooden blocks. |
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Find pairs of blocks with the same shape, such as two small squares, two rectangles, two large squares, etc. |
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Mix up the pairs of blocks. |
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Have your child look for each pair of matching blocks. |
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Name the shape of each pair of blocks as your child finds a match. |
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BLOCK PUZZLE
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BUILD YOUR BLOCKS
Tune: “Mary Had A Little Lamb”
Build your blocks, way up high,
Way up high, way up high.
Build your blocks, way up high,
‘Til they reach the sky!
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BUILD, BUILD, BUILD YOUR BLOCKS
Tune: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Build, build, build your blocks,
Build them one–by-one.
Make a car, make a boat,
Building’s so much fun.
Jean Warren
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BIG BLOCKS, LITTLE BLOCKS
Big blocks, little blocks
One, two, three,
Build them up
So all can see.
Big blocks, little blocks
Far from the ground,
Better watch out –
As they fall down!
Jean Warren |
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