Basic Building Blocks
HABA £39.95- 26 wooden blocks
- Works with your marble runs
- Develops engineering and fine-motor skills
HABA basic building blocks are precision cut wooden blocks that are designed to work both alone and with HABA’s marble run pieces. The dimensions match those of the marble runs perfectly, allowing you to extend your marble runs in all kinds of fun and interesting ways.
Why we love blocks
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Spatial awareness
Like puzzle pieces, blocks fit together. Unlike puzzle pieces, they can do so in a variety of ways. Learning to predict what fits where is the work of many years. Which pieces will I need? Do I have enough? The expert can see simply by turning the blocks over in her mind.
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Small world play
Is your castle missing a section of wall? Does your railway need a tunnel? Never fear! Here is your humble set of blocks to the rescue. Infinitely versatile, blocks provide the canvas upon which to paint your stories.
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Pattern-making
Red, blue, red, blue; big, small, big, small. So much of early mathematical thinking is about making patterns. Can you see how it's a small skip from here to odds and evens or the two-times table? A set of blocks like the one above can even illustrate a number's relative size and how it can be combined to make ten.
