Keeping preschoolers occupied in a public place during downtime can be a challenge. Whether you’re waiting for the server to show up with the pancakes or all of you are parked in a waiting room, happy children engaged in a task means less stress for you! In the past,...

If there’s one force that any budding builder needs to internalize, it’s gravity. Learning to walk is a victory over gravity, a feat of strength and balance. When it comes to building, keeping things in balance is another triumph. Check out these three hands-on...

What can you build with materials found around the house? Here are just a few fun building challenges that leave plenty of space for variation and creative touches you can try with the kids this summer. Go fly a kite Paper and plastic bags can be easily converted into...

Too often, when the kids turn to us for help, we jump in and fix it. We explain the math problem, find the missing LEGO Bricks pieces, tie the shoe and fetch the forgotten jacket. In our haste to move on to the next thing, we sometimes overlook something. We know they...

One of your child’s favorite activities with LEGO Bricks is, no doubt, breaking open a new model and getting right to work. But here are some models that are also useful in teaching quick and easy science lessons about planet Earth that will get their imaginations...

Any parent looking for the best in brain-building activities has most likely seen the excitement around LEGO Bricks in recent years. An increasing number of parents and educators are recognizing the learning opportunities these little interlocking bricks can bring to...

If your child shows an interest in construction equipment or frequently asks how buildings are put together, that’s a curiosity worth encouraging. Research shows early spatial intelligence can predict a child's performance in mathematics and reading, while middle...

Children are students of the world. As they explore, they become fascinated by the results they expect least. Here's a quick little physics experiment that we came across on a blog called Kid Minds that will play with these expectations. Just head outside to the...

Thanks to the current focus on STEM-related subjects, robotics engineering training among children is becoming increasingly popular — though it has yet to become mainstream in public education. To counter that, private learning centers like Bricks 4 Kidz are helping...

Your child’s vast collection of LEGO Bricks has served as a great brain-building activity. Kits teach them how to follow directions while exposing them to new design and building solutions. And when they eventually take apart the models and send the pieces into the...