Block play encourages
development in the following
areas:
creative thinking, problem solving,
exploration, experimentation, area, space,
size, shape, depth, balance, gravity, values,
weight, position, three-dimensionality,
one-to-one correspondence, classification,
conservation, representation, discrimination,
equivalence, reversibility, measurement,
social relationships, language, patterning,
directionality, symmetry, topology, mapping,
number concept, stability, surface, fractions,
bridging, matching, seriation, and cause and
effect relationships.