http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.com/2010/06/we-play-blocks-and-props.html
As with all areas of development, children go through stages using blocks. Understanding the stages will help you to provide the perfect props to appeal to the children in your world.
Carrying Blocks
Watch a toddler in the block area and you will see them carrying blocks around, piling them, collecting them and putting them in and out of containers. To facilitate this play, try adding:
Piling Blocks and laying them on the floorbasketshandbagsbucketsboxesan array of different containerssaucepansbig truckssmall suitcases
Children discover how to make a tower by piling blocks on top of each other and experiment with what different arrangements look like as they lie on the floor.
To young builders flat rows of blocks on the floor typically suggest a road, so these props are frequently put to good use:
Making Bridgescarstrees (eg lego trees)road signsroad matspeoplegaragesboxestruckspatterning cardsmeasuring instruments
pictures of bridgespaper towel rollscars, trucks, train tracksblue cloth for water, boatssturdy cardboard lengths
Connecting Blocks to Create Structures
Three and four year olds make enclosures; make bridges; make designs; make elaborate constructions; use constructions in their dramatic play. doll house with furniture and dollstraffic signspaper, pens, scissorsclipboardshats and toolssmall plastic containers and lidstelephone wirepaper towel rollspaddlepop stickstiles, carpet squaresmirrorsropepulley and stringshells and pebblestree cookiesthin pieces of tubinggutteringseed pods, pine conesdriftwood, stones, big leaves, bark, small branchestoy food, plates, bowlsscarves and material scrapsthick cardboardbig reelstape measures, measuring tape, rulerscorrogated cardboarddifferent levels - low tables, wooden pallet, tyre, tree stumps
Happy building!
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