Play with Me ~ Nesting Blocks

Nesting blocks are a favorite toy around here. We personally own these 2 sets {click images to see on Amazon}…

…and there are many others out there. Nesting blocks are great for so many things and offer many opportunities for play. Below you’ll sea few of our favorite ways to play.

There’s the obvious use-stacking, which begins all out of order as seen below when K was about 2 1/2.

At 3 1/2 he was able to stack them according to their sizes.

It is SUPER FUN for a tot to crash into a neatly made tower, over and over and over again!

My favorite thing personally is to turn the blocks on their side and challenge K to find objects that will fit in each block. Here he is doing it with them standing up, having to work on balance also.

Here we designed a car garage and he had to park correctly sized cars in each garage. He loved this!

Set the blocks up on the floor and have your tot toss something into them {K is using a ping pong ball here}

Here he is tossing a bean bag from behind a line…

We also made steps for his Rescue Heroes…he was ALL BOY within minutes and destroyed the steps as the Heroes went into battle.

Here we played a game of memory. We placed small objects under each block and he had to remember where each thing was.

Ladybug is obviously a much younger tot. She enjoys using the blocks to put things into…

I put smaller blocks inside of the larger ones for her and she had loads of fun pulling them out and putting them back in. We also stacked and knocked them over ;-).

They also make great shoes for tiny tot feet!

Happy playing!

You can see this and other toys we feature here on our website all on one page. We will add all of the toys we feature with links back to the blog posts!