There are many memories I have of growing up...playing in parks, making daisy chains, fun bike rides on holidays in the forest, sandcastles on beaches and playing with dolls in a unique hand crafted doll house. I was one of 4 children and the only girl.
An abiding memory of growing up was creating models with lego. As well as the standard blocks I had a lovely pink set that had horses and horse boxes that my brothers never really wanted to touch. At that age I never envisaged the learning potential of lego because I just felt like I was playing and having fun. My sons love playing with this classic toy too. We have helicopters, emergency vehicles, police mobile units, castles and knights, and racing cars. We also have a selection of standard blocks for their own creations. They enjoy following the patterns and they get a great sense of achievement when they complete a model all by themselves.
Recently I came across some activities that can be done using lego blocks and a favourite of ours is a lego maths again teaching simple addition and subtraction. The printable game board can be found here. I didn't print out the spinner like it is suggested on the page but just used a dice (we have plenty of those). With a basketful of lego pieces we set about playing our game and racing to the finish line. Once we were over the finish line I had my boys count their lego pieces and chart them on a number line.
Honestly think the inventor of lego was a genius!!
