Bin 5: Pipe Building
Our Pipe Building bin offers infinite architectural possibilities to young children who are just learning how to build with their own hands at early stages, allowing them the opportunity to stimulate the imagination and learning skills while encouraging discovery, developing motor skills with open-ended play. Easily build rectangles or other geometric shapes, enhance hand-eye coordination, cognitive ability, spatial thinking, counting, sorting, creativity and imagination. Recommended for children age 3+.
Early Learning Standards Met:
North Dakota - Cognition, Creative Arts, Social, and Emotional Development.
Minnesota - Cognitive Development: Mathematics, Science and Social Systems, Creativity and the Arts, Social and Emotional Development, and Approaches to Learning.
Do Together
Ideas for how to use this bin:
- Create numbers or letters with pipes
- Spell out your name with pipes
- Build an animal with pipes
- Build a bike or car with pipes and wheels
- Build a helicopter or airplane with pipes and wheels
Watch or Play Together
Use this media connection to spark interest, model skills and approaches, or explore a concept:
- The Broken Wheel, Sid the Science Kid (Video 3:18)
- Try and Try Again, Ready Jet Go (Video 11:00)
- Super Grover 2.0: Wheels, Sesame Street (Video 6:02)
Talk and Wonder Together
Maximize learning using these prompts during or after the activities:
- What color is this piece? Is it a pipe or a wheel?
- What are you making?
- How many pipes does it take to make this letter?
- What kinds of things have two wheels? three wheels? four or more?
- How do wheels make our lives easier?
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