Building with Blocks Activity

Block tower activity: students estimate how tall their tower will get, roll a die and stack that many blocks until it tumbles, then record each count and their highest tower.
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Preschool–Kindergarten
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Updated Aug 05, 2021

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Life Skills, Special Resources
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This Building with Blocks Activity is great for helping students develop their fine motor skills. They roll a die to stack that number of blocks, which encourages them to keep practicing.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Estimate a quantity before testing it

  • Count and record the number of blocks stacked

Teaching tips

  • Each player needs one die and a supply of building blocks, which the file does not provide

Skills covered

  • Fine motor control — stacking blocks carefully to keep the tower standing

  • Recording data — writing each stack count on the sheet

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Core concepts

  • Estimation

  • Counting

  • Fine motor skills

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