CONSTRUCTIVE PLAY

 

What is Constructive Play?

Children learn to co-ordinate their fine motor skills through a variety of activities e.g. building, threading, stacking, interlocking games, craft activities. It can help them to develop a problem solving approach. The child stores visual information which they use at a later date, thus developing memory skills. Importantly it can give the child a sense of achievement when they complete a task.

 

Constructive Play Ideas:

• Building with wooden blocks of varying sizes
• Building with interlocking bricks e.g. Duplo, Lego
• Train tracks
• Threading cotton reels, beads, pasta shapes
• Craft activities – cutting and sticking
• Junk modelling with cardboard etc.
• Stacking beakers or cups
• Inset boards and jigsaw puzzles
• Den building