Build a Square Tower
10 min
1 participant
Understand a 3D square shape, improve fine motor skills and create a strategy to build the square into a tower.
Let's play!
Add more floors to the tower, to make it taller and equal on all 4 sides.
How to prepare
Build a square with 6 bricks on the base plate.
Place the 30 other bricks in the bowl.
Possible variations
Make several floors beforehand.
Increase the number of towers to be built.
Use a timer.
Change the size of the square.
Peer play.
Children will develop these holistic skills
Physical
- Use and produce representations of solids and spatial situations
- Develop motor skills and build body language: Acquire specific techniques to improve efficiency
Cognitive
- Recognize, classify and sort shapes in 2 dimensions
Social
- Plan and carry out routine or non-routine activities requiring multiple steps
Did you know?
LEGO Braille bricks are equal in size to the most common LEGO bricks. Its length is twice its width and allows easy construction.
Iteration - trying out possibilities, revising hypotheses and discovering the next question - leads to increased learning.
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