Towers up, towers down
⏱️ 10 min📦 things you have🏠 indoor🤲 sitting🧠 Cognitive🤸 Motor
Stacking blocks only to knock them straight back down, and opening and closing the lid on a box again and again, are exactly the kind of repeated hand play many one-year-olds gravitate to — both let them cause the same small collapse or reveal on command, as many times as they like.
🧺 You need
- 4 or more blocks or stackable cups
- a few small boxes, cups, or containers with lids (no battery compartments)
🛡️ Use blocks and containers too large to fit fully in a mouth, and keep any lid or compartment that opens onto a battery or a loose small part out of the box — a tower is safe to send flying, a container with a swallowable insert isn't.
Sources: AAP — Hand and Finger Skills: 1 Year Olds · AAP — Hand and Finger Skills: 1 Year Olds
🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.
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