For the last two months

Bea has been enjoying Mega Blok play

She loves the brightly coloured plastic blocks

They are big enough for her to grab onto

And chew safely

The design means they are easy for her to keep hold of

And she can manipulate them with ease

Bea loves to sit with a box of Mega Bloks

Take them all out of the box

And put them back in again

One of her favourite things to do

Is pack and unpack her Blok box

Sometimes we have two boxes and together we

Move the blocks from one box to another

We only have a small collection of Mega Bloks

They are all decorated with letters, numbers and pictures

So they are interesting to look at

They are also great for Esther and William

Now aged 4

As they use them to practice spelling and simple number sentences

For Bea it is about examining the blocks

With her eyes, her hands and her teeth

For Bea it is about moving the blocks from place to place

It is about banging blocks together

Or shaking the box to hear them rattle and bang against one another

For Bea it is about gnawing

The blocks and the box!

Bea loves to watch me and her older siblings

Playing with blocks

She loves bashing down towers

Bea will crawl around the room

To get to strategically placed blocks

This has been great fun

And a wonderful way to develop her gross motor skills

Blocks are perfect for early fine motor skill development too

Grasping the blocks, holding onto them

Banging them together

And passing from one hand to the other

When we get the Mega Bloks out we sit together on the Cosyplay mat

Until 6 months I used our Theraline pregnancy pillow as a nest for Bea

To support her new sitting skill

Bea sat very early so was quite wobbly for a while

At almost 8 months Bea is sitting confidently 7

Crawling at speed around the house

And cruising the furniture

She loves being on the floor

And the cushioned Cosyplay mat has offered protection

Making her and I braver at trying new things

Like standing and crawling and cruising!

The Bloks are a daily feature in Bea’s play

They are a great fun way to play

And through play Bea is building strength and coordination

Fine and gross motor skills

And she is learning to communicate too

We love our Bloks

And I am looking forward to many more months of learning through play

Soon we will start to think about introducing concepts

Such as colour and size

And soon Bea will start to begin to make towers of her own