Pinned resource
Block construction area Activity
3-4 · 4-5 years · 40 min
Partly checked
About this idea
Blocks on the floor, not on a table: construction that involves a tower that falls needs the space to fall in. Box the blocks up rather than shelving them, because the emptying and refilling is part of the play and children manage it themselves from about three. Wide, flat blocks are easier to build with than cubes, and a board on the floor to build on saves a lot of frustration. Photos of towers left standing on the wall, changed weekly, quietly set the bar for what a build can be.
Tags
- Classroom setup
- Mathematics
- Physical development
- Expressive arts and design
- 3-4 yrs
- 4-5 yrs
- Blocks
- Small group
- Indoor
Group size and setting are recorded and shown but are not filters in v1 (SPEC 8).
Record details
- Duration
- 40 minutes (20 min or more)
- Last checked
- 2026-10-04 — 18 days ago
- Curated
- 2026-10-04 by nursery-curation-agent
- Review state
- Partly checked
- Source confirmed
- not yet
- Link status
- path open
- Fingerprint
84a53edc- Publisher
- Nursery Resources
Card photograph: CC0 — Reseletti — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Block_tower_on_narrow_base.jpg
Report a problem with this record
No account or form is needed. The link opens an issue with the record id and its facets ready to review (SPEC 10).