Playtime Engineering

By: Jill Esbaum, WonderLab Group | Series:Big Science for Tiny Tots

Grab a play mat, blocks, and your favorite baby engineer. Its time to build somethingand see science at work!

Oh, my. Youve gathered lots of materials.
What will you build?

With blocks at the ready, watch as your baby uses their hands to bear weight and the couch for support while experimenting with setting up a sturdy base, stacking a tower, spanning a space with an archand applying force, of course. Bash! Smash! Crash! Babies and toddlers are naturally curious explorersnow help them discover that science is fun! In this bright, graphic board book, photos of busy little ones offset a lively running dialogue sprinkled with factual asides that define basic engineering terms.