Construction Play
Learning Goals: Building, Structures, Child-Directed Play, Creativity
- Provide various building materials for the students to build and create.
- Inspire their play by providing books about buildings and photos of structures.
- This play can also occur outside with students building using natural materials such as rocks, sticks, ice, and snow.
- Various building materials (wooden blocks, Lego, Duplo, bungs, plastic cups, pattern blocks, unifix cubes, milk crates, cardboard boxes, etc.)
- The play is initiated and directed by the students. They select the materials and chose what to build.
- The educator selects the various materials to put out in the building centre and during play they act as an observer.
