Building blocks can bring out a host of creative play in children. Babies like knocking them over, toddlers like stacking them and older children like to build structures. While castles and towers are fun things to build with your kids, think about building everyday places too, to help kids relate and role-play. Do you go to Home Depot every weekend? Build that. Do you go to Whole Foods? Build that. We even take an old piece of cardboard and draw various lines for the parking lots. For the cars to park before they go shopping, of course.
Speaking of cars, my son loves them. So much so, that I have to be creative in getting him to play with blocks by tying it into his love of cars. So when we play with our Mega Bloks, the type of blocks we currently own, we build parking garages with them. Or bridges. Or tunnels. But one day, I decided to help my son build a drive-thru. A Starbucks drive-thru.
It was not a fancy drive-thru set up, but our Starbucks was a popular one because soon there was a line of cars with Peppa Pig as the Barista.
Soon the Starbucks became very popular and the line was down the street, and we were having a lot of fun.
Venti, anyone?
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Charlene is a blogger at CharleneChronicles.com and is on the 2013 Toy Insider Parent Panel
