Printables and Ideas for Playing With Blocks

Published:
May 31, 2016

Sarah Shelton

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Sarah Shelton

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My preschoolers have always loved playing with blocks! My 5 year old still plays with her blocks during quiet time a few days a week.
blocksWe love blocks. There are so many creative and imaginative ways you can play with blocks. Just recently I have seen some really cool printables that can turn block free time play into a real learning experience! A lot of these ideas come from preschools, where teachers have block stations set up, but there is no way you can’t do this in your own home!

Printables:
FREE Block Center I Can List
FREE Pattern Block Printable Mats
Shape Sorting Blocks with FREE Printable
Build a City Counting Game
Building Block STEM Challenge Cards
These Building Block STEM challenge cards are a great way to work engineering, math, planning and more into your school day! Or use them just for fun!
Block Puzzles Busy Bag Printables
Block Puzzles Busy Bag (31 Days of Busy Bags & Quiet Time Activities @ AllOurDays.com)

I absolutely love these ideas from Fun-A-Day. These are in her preschool classroom, but if you have lots of little ones, this would be great to set up in a living room or play room/school room corner.
Book of Structures for the Block Center  – this can turn block play into a fun, world geography lesson.
where we keep our structure book for the block center
Castles in the Block Center – what a fun idea, to have your kids replicate REAL Castles!
Engineering projects for kids - encourage planning, designing, and building with a mini-book of castle photos in the block center

Hands-On Block Play Ideas:
Block Play Tetris
Building Block Addition Towers
Pendulum Block Play
Building Block Structures
Block sculptures based on the book Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
Fun Developmental Activities with Blocks
block designs for developmental modeling play. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

Here are some of our favorite types of blocks: