Match & Build Blocks

Build them up and knock them down--14 soft blocks combine in endless creative combinations . . . and topple with a gentle bounce that makes them safest for little ones. Match & Build Blocks can build much more than towers, too: This colorful soft-block set helps develop motor skills, logical connections, creativity, and more, so it grows along with a child, helping build key developmental skills along the way. 

Kid-friendly artwork on the coordinating cubes encourages matching activities (numerals with quantities, animal heads and tails, and everyday shapes), puzzling (complete the picture of a Ferris wheel!), and even sequential thinking and storytelling with before-and-after flaps on three of the blocks. With unlimited open-ended opportunities for learning and play, kids can also create their own sorting games and creative combinations--and of course, the 14 soft blocks make a terrific tower, castle, boat, or rocket ship. 9+ months.

• 9 Months and Up: Place a piece slightly out of reach, and encourage the child to reach and grasp to pull it near.
• Hand the child a piece to touch and hold. Demonstrate how to pass an object from hand to hand.
• Make a tower of blocks and invite the child to knock it down.
• Identify different pictures on the blocks, encouraging the child to pat each block as you point to its picture.

• 12 Months and Up: Ask the child to try to stack the blocks.
• Ask the child to hold two blocks and knock them together.
• Help the child identify the different colors on the blocks. Say a color name aloud and help the child point to a block with that color.
• Line up the blocks in a row and count them aloud. Ask the child to pat them along with you as you count.

• 18 Months and Up: Encourage the child to stack the blocks into a tower.
• Help the child pair the blocks to make different vehicles and animals.
• Open and close the flaps as you tell a story about each before-and-after pair. Talk about the changes in each sequence and encourage the child to point to key details.
• Help the child identify the different shapes on the blocks.

• Older Toddlers and Preschoolers: Name a color or pattern and ask the child to point to all the pieces that fit the group.
• Match a counting quantity with the numeral it goes with. Count the items in the group aloud, along with the child.
• Arrange the blocks on the play surface so that all the pictures in one category (shapes, objects, counting groups) are facing up. Help the child identify each of the illustrations.
• Help the child to arrange the blocks to complete the puzzle picture of a Ferris wheel.
• Encourage the child to get creative in building towers, houses, bridges, and more.
• Dimensions: 16" x 10" x 4" Assembled.