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 ...

Pirate ships, bridges, flowers, dinosaurs, cars, castles, trains, tents, campfires, palm trees and house. What do they have in common? A child’s imagination, sparked by block play. With UNICEF support ...

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 ...

Playing with toy blocks may lead to improved language development in middle- and low-income children, according to a new study. Playing with toy blocks may lead to improved language development in ...

I never outgrew playing with blocks, but unfortunately they outgrew me. When I was a kid, I started building elaborate structures out of my set of blocks. I built cantilever bridges and arches. I ...

US Synthetic and its founder Louis Pope charged BYU engineering students to improve the home-building process for rural Kenyans. The students first designed a new type of building block that can ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Playing with blocks helps young children gain language skills, a small study concluded on Monday. After six months, language scores among half of 175 children aged 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 ...

Silas McLellan, a kindergartner in a play-based learning class, plays with toy blocks during Choice Time at Symonds ...