WOODEN BLOCKS – SIMPLE TOOLS MADE INTO GAMES

History would tell us that wood was the first friend and tool of mankind. It is with wood that man discovered fire and many more things. Wood helped him to make secure shelters and also build weapons to fight against enemies and hunt for food. However, the wooden blocks as weapons or as games look to be a very crude concept.

Tracing the annals of history, one can discover that the wooden blocks have been in use for kinder garden kids in school from the sixteenth century. A person by name John first found out that the use of wooden blocks to develop the minds of kids. He researched extensively on children’s minds and the methods that could be used to accelerate their learning. He found that the simple looking wooden blocks could be shaped into many standard shapes to build many interesting things. The wooden blocks are painted in different colors and are used to decorate homes by making them to many different interesting structures. Kids can make dams, bridges, houses and odd structures out of them.

The wooden blocks present a very rudimentary way of learning structural engineering. The basic difference between each structural element like a cube or a rectangular block or a sphere can be very well understood and interpreted when shown as a three dimensional object rather than explaining in board for hours together in the form of boring lectures. The wooden blocks can be made into small pieces and be made part of a big jigsaw puzzle which the kids can solve. This jigsaw puzzle could be a building or the face of a famous personality or anything that you could possibly think of.

Do you want to teach mathematical skills to your kid? Simply buy a pack of number wooden blocks and make them add, subtract, multiply or divide using these numbers which look better and attractive when compared to the boring numbers which we write on the boards.

To learn alphabets also, these wooden blocks can be designed into mimics of alphabets and children can be made to play giant scrabble games wherein they learn many new words. Thus, the wooden blocks are a very popular teaching aid used in many leading nursery and kinder garden schools to train kids in the way of games. Games interest children and making them learn through games is the best education you can give your kid. There is nothing to be surprised here.