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you work with, learn from your peers and their ideas, and give each other roles and responsibilities. What is Six Bricks? Six Bricks is a hands-on tool for learning. Through fun and short activities with sets of LEGO® DUPLO® bricks in six bright colours, children can practice their memory, movement, creativity and more. You can adapt activities
- Learning through Play
- Developing the whole child
- The role of the adult
- To do before the activity
- Structure of a play-based activity using LEGO® DUPLO® bricks
- Getting started
- Let’s move
- Brain boosters
- Activity steps
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- Mysterious Bag
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- Scooping up the bricks
- Storing the bricks
- Make stable structures
- Build on hard and stable surfaces
- Six Bricks
- Creating your own activities
Play is our brain’s favourite way to learn! Research shows that play is one way children develop some of the most important skills for being lifelong learners. Play enables us to explore, practice and try out ways of tackling similar challenges in the real world. Skills like problem-solving, creativity, empathy, communication and teamwork all have ...
Play helps children develop a broad set of skills that will enable them to become lifelong learners, such skills can be grouped into five categories as shown in the picture. The activities in this booklet have been designed around these skills. Each activity usually involves a mix of skills, even though it has one main development area.
Children learn from your example. What you do inspires the language they use, how they try to solve problems and how they work together with others. Here are some good ways to support the children during play-based learning activities: Empower the children to try on their own – let them be in the driver seat, and guide them if they get frustrated o...
Read through the activity description to make sure you understand the steps involved and the purpose of the activity. Make sure the activity is appropriate for the number of children you have, and for their age group. Modify the activity if needed. Think about how to scale the activity up or down in order to challenge the children at the right leve...
Introduction to the topic – Start by introducing the topic of the activity and explaining the instructions. Building time – Time for the children to build. If the activity is individual, this can be done quietly. Sharing and reflection – Once the building activity has been completed, it is important that each child is able to share his/her model wi...
Introductory activities to introduce games that use LEGO® DUPLO® bricks.
Activities that encourage the children to move their bodies.
Practicing problem-solving and concentration through fun activities.
Sit in a circle and have a variety of diferent types of bricks spread out on the floor in the middle. Ask the children to close their eyes and find a brick, and try to explain the brick without looking. What shapes can you feel? Is it rough/smooth? How many studs can you feel? Is it round/rectangular? Etc. Open your eyes and look at your brick. Fin...
Build a simple model using four to six bricks. Present the model to the children. You then ask the children to find the same type of bricks, and to copy the model. Ask the children to compare the model and ask: Are they the same? If not, what is diferent? Can you change it? Tips and ideas Make sure there are enough of the same types of bricks for t...
Tips and ideas • If needed, support the child by asking questions, or let the other children ask questions.
Children sit around a pile of bricks. Ask the children to pick up any two 2*4 bricks, stand up, and join the two bricks together. Challenge children to: Throw the bricks up in the air and catch them again. What do you feel when you catch the bricks? Can you do it 5 times without dropping them? Try throwing them up higher! Throw the bricks from thei...
Each child picks up one brick of each colour – blue, green, red and yellow – and holds it in their hands. They then go to an area large enough to enable each child to make bigger movements for example, outdoors on grass, or in play area. The children drop their bricks close to them, and make sure that the bricks are spread out, and not on top of ea...
Sit around a pile of bricks and have a piece of fabric, towel or blanket. Secretly arrange a few bricks (a house, an animal, a person, a brick, a fence, etc.) on a base plate. The number of bricks depends on the level Tips and ideas You can also let the children do this activity in pairs, one child arrange the model and the other attempt to copy. M...
Children sit around a pile of bricks. Ask children to: Close your eyes and imagine seeing a snake. How does the snake move? What shapes does it make as it moves? Ask the children to build a snake using any of the bricks. Allow each (or a few) member of the group to talk a little bit about their snake – what kind of snake is it, where does it live, ...
Ask the children to think about diferent superpowers, and let them name a few for the full group. Then ask the children to think about an animal they like, and build that animal and let it have a superpower. In pairs, the children introduce their animal and what superpower it has. Ask them to be curious about each other’s animals by asking question...
Let the children close their eyes, and then read them a story about how you are all travelling from Earth to Mars. For example, “Please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts, we are now taking of to travel to Mars. We have been selected to be the first humans to live there for one year. *Bump bump bump* We have now landed on Mars and the first ...
Divide the children into smaller groups, and let each group have a pile of bricks. One member of each group will get word from the adult without the rest of the group being able to hear it. Examples of words could be “sun”, “water”, “tree”, “car”, “ball” etc. The child has to try to explain the word by building a model using the bricks – and the ch...
Let the children sit around a pile of bricks. Discuss friends/friendships, qualities of a good friend, etc. Ask the children individually to build a friend, using any bricks. In pairs, let the children introduce their friends to each others’. Tips and ideas You can also let the children use other type of materials to dress up their friends – paper,...
Each child is to build a frame and place a drawing or a picture of themselves inside the frame. Let the children decorate the frame with bricks that represent who they are or how they are feeling. If the children want to, ask them to show their frame to a small group Tips and ideas You can ask the children to re-build the frame from time to time. Y...
Let the children sit around a pile of bricks. Ask the children to pair up and select two or three same-sized bricks (colour does not matter). One of the pair is blindfolded or closes his/her eyes, while the other builds something with those two or three bricks. The builder then puts his/her model into the partner’s hands, who then feels the shape. ...
Prepare a model using basic bricks and place it somewhere in the room where the children cannot see it. Divide the children into groups of 4–6, and ask them to pick one person from the group – the communicator. The communicator goes to see how the model is built and returns to explain it to his/her group. The group should try to build according to ...
Divide the children into groups of 4–6, and let each group sit around a pile of bricks. One child selects any two bricks from the pile and connects them using both hands. The child passes the model to the child on the left – that child uses both hands at the same time to select any two bricks and adds them to the model. Continue in this way until a...
Divide the children into groups of 3–4 children. The groups are to build a bridge that can cross “the river” (a piece of paper) and at the same time hold the weight of an object (you decide what object). Give the children time to discuss and plan how they will span the river. Guiding questions How can you measure the length you need to span with br...
A good rule to learn for activities with bricks is ‘hands-of’ during instructions. Then start an activity by calling ‘hands-on’. Try to discuss how to remember the rule and make it like a game with the children.
When you do group activities, try to spread out a thin blanket or bed sheet on the floor, and build on this. Once the activity is finished, you can scoop up all the bricks in one go.
Let the activities in this booklet be a source of inspiration, but don’t let them limit you. Continue developing and creating your own activities. Here are a few tips to think about when developing your own activities: Always think about the purpose of the activity and what skills you want the children to practice during the activity. Think about w...
Let the activities in this booklet be a source of inspiration, but don’t let them limit you. Continue developing and creating your own activities. Here are a few tips to think about when developing your own activities: Always think about the purpose of the activity and what skills you want the children to practice during the activity. Think about w...
Let the activities in this booklet be a source of inspiration, but don’t let them limit you. Continue developing and creating your own activities. Here are a few tips to think about when developing your own activities: Always think about the purpose of the activity and what skills you want the children to practice during the activity. Think about w...
Let the activities in this booklet be a source of inspiration, but don’t let them limit you. Continue developing and creating your own activities. Here are a few tips to think about when developing your own activities: Always think about the purpose of the activity and what skills you want the children to practice during the activity. Think about w...
Let the activities in this booklet be a source of inspiration, but don’t let them limit you. Continue developing and creating your own activities. Here are a few tips to think about when developing your own activities: Always think about the purpose of the activity and what skills you want the children to practice during the activity. Think about w...
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Sep 18, 2024 · LEGO® Duplo bricks are made to introduce individuals to LEGO® at a young age. The sets first made their way onto shelves in 1969, and now they are a staple in every preschool and elementary school classroom. Just like the regular LEGO® sets, these Duplo bricks come out with new sets frequently and are always a part of the LEGO® lineup.
Here is a full listing of our LEGO Duplo Instructions for you to use. We hope you find them interesting and that you are able to build your favorite LEGO sets. 3in1 Space Shuttle Adventure Set: 10422-1 Released in 2024. Alphabet Truck Set: 10421-1 Released in 2024. Animal Train Set: 10412-1 Released in 2024. Ariel and Flounder`s Cafe Stand Set ...
The LEGO Group’s vision is to be a global force for Learning Through Play and this was always at the forefront of our designs in LEGO® DUPLO®. We know that 90% of a child’s brain develops within their first 5 years, and having fun while playing enhances their chances of learning. All products launched from June 2024 and onwards have been ...
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Oct 31, 2017 · These ideas work well with preschoolers and even older children. 1. You Build, I Build Barrier Game This fun game is perfect for playing in pairs and it is fabulous for developing thinking, communication and co-operation skills. Begin by dividing your Duplo bricks so that each player has an identical set of 10-15 bricks.
