Toddlers and preschoolers love playing with blocks. In addition to developing motor skills and hand-eye coordination, block play can also help foster creativity, enhance problem-solving ability and ...

A new book, Let’s Play, tasks 100 Swiss designers to play with toy blocks, then photographs the results, looking for trends. It’s a well-documented fact that architects love playing with toy blocks as ...

If you liked to play with LEGOs or Lincoln Logs as a child, you might be a bit put off by all the virtual game play out there. If so, you’ll be happy with the products that Sifteo is making. They’re ...

Our "Tools of the Trade" series is taking a look at some of the iconic objects that form a vital part of our educational lives. For an upcoming piece, I'm reporting on how young children learn through ...

Budding architects and structural engineers were hard at play building highway systems with roundabouts, interchanges and bridges; garages with ramps; castles with towering facades; and corrals -- for ...

Parents and researchers have long speculated that play with construction toys might offer a rich environment that would support later learning in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics ...

Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from a nationally representative ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Semi-structured block play among preschool-age children has the potential to improve two skills – mathematics and executive functioning – critical to kindergarten readiness, ...

Think of it as a serious version of Party Animals and PandaMania. Those two public art projects, which hit the D.C. streets in 2002 and 2004, respectively, brought dozens of fun, painted fiber glass ...