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 ...

Playing with blocks may help preschoolers develop the kinds of skills that support later learning in science, technology, engineering, and math, according to a new study that examined over a hundred ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...