The Usage of Wooden blocks

It’s a generation of electronic toys, like remote controlled cars to bikes that run on batteries. Most of these electronic toys have emerged out of promotions of different cars and Hollywood movies, as a sort of promotion. But have this electronic era taken over the time that in which wooden blocks toys were used to develop children’s mentality. It’s a fact that a wooden blocks aids different skills among children when they let their imagination flow and construct different objects by using the pieces of blocks, they just can’t acquire such developmental and advantageous skills by imagining themselves in the world of star wars. The time has changed, as the world moved from average restaurants to McDonalds, the toys moved from being wooden to plastic or steel. Wooden blocks toys used to have their own smell, texture and color as well that goaded children to use their imagination and senses in all way possible. As far as the economy is concerned, only discerning people can buy such electronic toys as they afford it, but the poorest can’t, a hindrance in their children’s skill development.

The facts show that when parents buy their children some toys, they have them broken within a week, such expensive toys ended up in futility. No learning, No imagination enhancement. On the other hand, a child could use those wooden blocks in any manner, while playing children could develop their muscle coordination immensely, and could discover how objects felt in their hands. They could see the shapes and comprehend them the way they wanted, and they could think that how could wooden blocks objects get together and form a new kind of shape.

The wooden blocks makes children envision and learn and these skills helps further in their educational context, because different wooden objects made only when shape when put together, so it helps children to explore. It is indeed a cliché ridden statement, you might have heard a lot on “children’s thinking development”, these developments can easily take place if you let go off your child’s imagination. There are so many benefits of using such toys made of wooden blocks, as wood itself is a natural element of nature. Infants have a knack of putting everything they hold in their mouth. If they put a wooden dinosaur in their mouth, it won’t harm them instead of putting a circuited car.  

Two years old show their building skills when they try making up a simple structure, meanwhile a three year olds can make more complex structures using such blocks, four year old can start to discover patterns and design and make a structure that reflects artistic skills like building a statue of liberty. These skills will help them in kindergarten and primary school where the children opt to make structures they see in their daily life.