The wooden blocks have been in use for long

Jan 11
09:09

2012

Meng Lee

Meng Lee

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The wooden blocks are educational toys that are fun as well. The best part is that these do not require any batteries in order to run.

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It was wood that was used to build weapons to fight and to hunt for food. Thus,The wooden blocks have been in use for long Articles the wooden blocks as games appear to be a very crude concept. Tracing history, one can discover that these wooden blocks have been in use for the kinder garden kids in school from the sixteenth century as people found out that these wooden blocks can be used in order to develop the minds of kids. This is because the simple looking wooden blocks could be shaped into various standard shapes in order to build a large number of interesting things. These blocks can be painted in different colors and can be used in order to decorate homes by making so many different interesting structures with them. Kids can make structures such as dams, bridges, houses as well as many other odd structures out of them.

These wooden blocks are able to provide a very rudimentary way of learning structural engineering. It becomes so easy to understand as well as interpret the basic difference between each structural element such as a cube or a rectangular block or even a sphere when it is shown as a three dimensional object. This is much more effective than explaining on the board for hours together in the form of boring lectures. You can have these wooden blocks as small pieces that can be made part of a big jigsaw puzzle which the kids would be able to solve. This jigsaw puzzle can either be the face of a building or of a famous personality or anything else that you can possibly think of.

In case you want to teach mathematical skills to your kid, then you simply need to buy a pack of number wooden blocks.  Now you can make them add, subtract, multiply or even divide by using these numbered wooden blocks. This looks much better and attractive as compared to the boring numbers that we generally write on the boards in the class.

In order to learn alphabets, these wooden blocks can be designed into some kind of mimics of alphabets. Then the children can play giant scrabble games wherein they would be able to learn many new words. Thus, it is quite clear that the wooden blocks are a very popular teaching aid that is used in many leading nursery as well as kinder garden schools in order to train kids through the way of games.