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LEGO® DUPLO® and Child Development

Playing with LEGO® DUPLO® means having fun, being creative and learning – All at the same time!

DUPLO encourages your child to play out new every day scenarios – Take a day in the Zoo, help the fire men, enjoy a day at the farm, chase the bad guys with the cool police car or just use the imagination to build and re-build a whole world of fun and play.

Through playing with DUPLO your child develops social skills, creativity, fine motor skills while learning to make sense of the world surrounding him/her.

Learn more about how DUPLO supports your child’s development!

Download PDF to get more details how DUPLO supports your child's creative development while playing and having fun.

Social development

When children play, they take on different roles all the time. One minute they are a fireman, the next minute a zoo keeper and a second after a train driver.
As grownups we like to think that children's role play is a product of their vivid imagination. There is actually more to it than that. Children role play because it helps them to learn about themselves and others.

Role play helps your child's social development by‏
- encouraging your child to take on different roles and try out different scenarios
- developing your child's identity and helping him/her to express his/her own feelings
- teaching your child how to interact with and relate to other people
- helping your child build his/her communication skills

Fine motor skills

Ever wondered why small children spend a long time building towers – just to knock them down again?

The fun is not wrecking the tower. It's the fun of building over and over again that keeps the children going. Because building and stacking is a lot more than a game. It's a way of learning how to control arms and hands.

Building and stacking helps your child develop his
- hand-eye coordination and motor skills
- understanding of shapes
- patience, determination and self-esteem

Shapes and colours

Children are good at making a mess. But did you know that they have an even bigger talent for arranging and putting things into order?

Think about how many times your child has asked you about a person, an animal or a car that he saw. Or how many times he has lined up his toy cars. It's all a part of figuring out how some things fit and others don't. He is sorting out the world in his head.

When your child plays, he learns to
- recognize shapes and colors
- distinguish betweeen different shapes and different colors
- arrange and organize
- make sense of the world around him

Creativity

Creative play builds active minds. Give a three-year-old a box of DUPLO bricks and he will start to build houses and towers right away. It's almost like an instinct. Children build and make things with their hands, because it's a natural part of their development. When you're a child, creative play is a way building your skills and growing your mind.

Creative play is good for your child, because
- it stimulates his imagination
- it stimulates his creative skills
- it builds other important skills, like problem-solving
- it allows him to develop at his own pace

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