Cultivate children's creativity, motor skills, and logical thinking through engaging activities with Woodie Pops

Wooden toys provide not only entertainment but also play a crucial role in children’s development. Engage in play activities with Woodie pops, wooden pieces designed to promote creativity, logical thinking, and motor skills. The vibrant and colourful pieces are perfect for creating emotional faces, practising counting, assembling diverse images, creating mandalas, or playing balance games. Get inspired by the following ten activities you can easily try at home. 

Build balance towers

Create balance towers to enhance hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and concentration. Experiment with constructing simple towers, identifying pieces that securely stack on top of each other. Engage in friendly competitions at home to see who can build the tallest tower or explore constructing imaginative designs based on colours.

Create figures

Explore an alternative to balance towers by crafting figures with Woodie Pops. Combine various pieces to bring your unique characters to life. Give them names, invent stories, and discuss their adventures. Where do they live? Who are their friends? Where will they go for their new adventure? This activity serves as an excellent way to foster the development of communication skills.

Learn to recognise emotions.

Facilitate children's emotional intelligence development by helping them recognise and understand emotions. This process not only refines communication skills but also nurtures empathy, reduces conflicts, and prepares them for adulthood. It's vital for children to grasp that each emotion holds significance and feeling both sadness and happiness is a normal part of life. Recognising emotions can be challenging, but children can construct diverse emotional faces with Woodie Pops. Engage in discussions about each emotion, elucidate their meanings when they typically occur and encourage open conversations about feelings.

Assembling colourful spirals

Engage in the collaborative and concentration-building activity of assembling colourful spirals. Foster teamwork by providing children with specific criteria for creating their spirals; for instance, task them with crafting a purple spiral, combining yellow and pink spirals, or initiating a spiral in blue and completing it with a green piece. 

Build your own city

Embark on the imaginative journey of building your own city using Woodie Pops. Use the wooden pieces to shape a vibrant urban landscape with inhabitants, figures, trees, and flowers. Encourage children to let their creativity soar as they envision and construct their unique city. Be prepared for surprises as the possibilities with Woodie Pops are limitless, and imagination knows no bounds.

Colourful images

Encourage artistic expression with vibrant Woodie Pops pieces by letting children fill empty spaces. Provide cut-out forms on cardboard, for example, of butterflies or bamboo plates, and allow them to fill templates with colourful pieces. As mentioned, templates such as a vase for flowers or human faces can vary, offering diverse opportunities for imaginative and colourful creations.

Practice counting

Tactile contact with wood has a calming effect and promotes concentration. The colourful pieces Woodie Pops are ideal for counting practice. Organise sets and groups with numbers of pieces, create vibrant lines and challenge children with tasks like adding three blue pieces to four green ones and one red—prompting them to determine the total number of pieces. 

Make your imprints

Explore the creative possibilities using Woodie Pops as stamps on clay, modelling material, or dynamic sand. Craft marvellous and unique images with exciting structures. You can combine woodie pops with bamboo plates. 

Create 3D figures

In this activity, use modelling clay to connect individual pieces. Children develop their imagination and construction skills here.

Give children space to play freely

Open-ended play is an essential part of children’s development. It allows children to explore the world around them and develop various skills and abilities. Children's imagination is unlimited, and Woodie Pops perfectly support open-ended play, which has many benefits. Let children play and observe what they can come up with and create.