Legos the ultimate toy

This is my first of many posts I am sure to have on the best building block in the world...Legos! I am an admitted Brickhead. I am an adult who loves Legos! What are children learning while playing with Legos?

1. It builds creativity -it's a ship, no it's a double decker couch

2. Develops fine motor skills - snapping bricks together and taking them apart

3. It helps build confidence - "I can't do it! I did it!!!"

4. It helps build problem solving skills - "I don't have a window! Oh I can make a window with this!"

5. Properties of physics, math, engineering. - if my tower is too high gravity will bring it down

6. Patterns - red brick, yellow brick, blue brick...repeat A,B,C pattern

7. Cooperative play - many Legos allows for many hands building together.  "Do you have a yellow Lego?"

8. Language skills - 

9. Three dimensional thinking

10. Critical thinking

11. Hand-eye coordination

12. Provides a sensory experience - children love digging their hands in a big bin of Legos

The list goes on and on! Mothers of daughters skip the dolls and get your girls some giant bins of Legos. They can play dollhouse with Legos but can they build a rocketship with the doll house? The open ended play benefits of Lego is never ending. Stop buying things that dictate what the child does with it.

In the words of Lionel Richie, "Well my friends the time has come. To raise the roof and have some fun. Throw away your work to be done. Let's play with Legos, Legos, Legos..." Wait? That's not what he says? That's what I heard...

Lego on people, Lego on!!!