KAPLA Planks, 280 pcs

The activity helps your child develop skills and is wonderful for your child's well-being:

• Supports your child's fine motor skills.
• Stimulates hand-eye coordination, which you use for example when kicking or catching a ball that comes flying towards you in PE class, or when cutting a straight line with a pair of scissors.
• Encourages your child to concentrate.

Measures 2,4x12x0,8.
Suitable for children aged 3 yrs. to 11 yrs.

Construction play is educational, fun, and also time consuming. We'll leave out a long-winded dissertation on how this type of play strengthens your child's fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity as well as understanding of geometry and interest in entrepreneurship.

While playing, your child also gets real hands-on experience with problem-solving as they figure out how to put together the construction so it doesn't suddenly collapse. Your child's construction play with all sorts of pieces, blocks, and other building materials develops their imagination and patience. Also, it's so satisfying to build the longest marble run ever or construct a skyscraper higher than yourself, or to maybe create an amazing domino row and film it when it topples.

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Kapla building blocks are as brilliant as they are simple. They are made of pine and are extremely easy to balance, durable, and stable - and they have a slightly rough texture, so they are easy to build with and stack. You can build surprisingly large structures with Kapla blocks. On social media, we have been captivated by the most beautiful constructions of large spiral staircases or the Eiffel Tower, made only with Kapla wooden blocks.

Your child gets hands-on experience with cause and effect and how to cope with defeat (or at least try to), if their awesome structure falls apart. It's super frustrating, but it also motivates your child to come up with solutions. Perhaps the structure needs to be tighter - or maybe it needs to be in the bedroom instead of the living room, out of reach of siblings and other hazards.

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