Lego encourages children to use their imagination and to experiment and play. For pre-school children, Lego helps them to learn about the world around them, and it helps them to develop essential skills for life.The social skills, problems solving skills, and design skills that they learn come under the umbrella of STEAM (science, technology, art, and maths).

STEAM in early education

Encouraging children to use their creativity and critical thinking skills is becoming more common in early years education. Lego is a hands-on way of allowing children to learn about the world around them, while the fun and play aspect keeps them interested and motivated to learn. Not only that, it allows them to develop skills such as collaboration and communication, which will help them throughout their lives.

The skills children can learn from Lego

Motor skills

Picking up lego pieces and building with them can develop motor skills, hand-eye coordination and develops muscle strength in their hands.

Imagination

Using Lego minifigures and sets allows children to use their imagination, and to make up stories and scenarios in a way that many other toys don’t.

A sense of achievement

When children build something from Lego, it can give them a great sense of achievement, especially if they have come up with an idea in their head and made their own creation.

Resilience

When their Lego creation collapses, a child can be upset, especially if they’ve spent a long time building something. The same applies if they can’t quite work out how to build something. But after a while, they learn that it’s all about trial and error, and they can always rebuild their creation. Lego teaches them to manage frustration and develop some resilience.

Problem solving

Whether a child is building something using instructions, or they are making their own creation, they’ll likely develop problem solving skills if they have to work out why something doesn’t look like it should or work correctly.

Cause and effect

When your child builds a tower out of Lego, then they add a piece that’s too heavy and it topples over, this is not a disaster, it’s science. Lego helps children to dream up a creation and work out how to make it a reality.

Engineering

Lego will teach children that if they want to build something, they have to work out how to make it stand up. For example, a single tower of bricks will almost always topple over, but if you create a stable base, voila, it works!

Creativity

When children play with Lego, their only limit is their imagination! If they can imagine it, they can build it.

Maths

Lego teaches children about symmetry, patterns, and how many Lego pieces they’ll need to build their creation.

Bricks4kidz helps kids to learn about engineering, architecture, physics, and maths all by using LEGO® bricks! Our workshops and after school clubs help children to develop their problem-solving skill, motor skills, and so much more.

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