Build Together
Foster Teamwork, Language Skills, and Creative Construction Through Cooperative Play. Build Together is a collaborative and open-ended building activity that encourages children to communicate, cooperate, and construct with purpose. Using colourful building blocks and visual assignment cards, children work in pairs to recreate specific designs or invent their own unique structures—building not just with blocks, but with shared ideas and teamwork.
As one child gives verbal instructions (e.g., “Put the red block on the green one”), and the other follows them, both partners practice clear communication, active listening, and spatial awareness. This interactive format makes Build Together an ideal resource for promoting oral language development, turn-taking, and collaborative problem-solving, while also fostering creativity and fine motor skills.
Perfect for classrooms, speech therapy sessions, or home play, this versatile activity turns building into a rich learning experience focused on both cognitive and social growth. Ages 3yrs+.
Key Educational Benefits:
- Oral Language Development: Promotes the use of directional and descriptive language (e.g. “next to,” “on top of,” “between,” “tall,” “wide”). Encourages sentence formation, clarity of speech, and expressive language.
- Listening and Comprehension: Builds active listening skills as children follow verbal instructions from their peers. Reinforces auditory processing and the ability to retain and act on information.
- Teamwork and Social Skills: Teaches children to cooperate, negotiate roles, and work towards a common goal. Strengthens empathy, patience, and respect for others’ ideas and contributions.
- Spatial Reasoning and Visual Thinking: Enhances the ability to visualise, interpret, and recreate 2D and 3D structures. Supports understanding of position, orientation, and relative space.
- Creative Thinking and Imagination: Encourages children to go beyond the cards and invent their own structures. Fosters open-ended exploration and creative problem-solving.
- Fine Motor Skill Development: Handling and placing blocks builds dexterity, coordination, and precision.
Contents:
2×8 Wooden Blocks
2×2 Wooden Figures (tree and goblin)
6 Assignment Cards (= 12 exercises)
Instruction manual
Magnetic Closing Storage Box (21×12×6 cm)