Build a City

Will you build a village, a town, or a whole city?

Let your imagination run wild. Stack bricks to create houses and buildings, imagine streets and parks. Then play in your city!

Goals

To manipulate bricks, to build different types of structures.
To express creative ideas.

The adult prepares

1 toolkit
1 baseplate

The children play

The child picks a brick from the box and attaches it to the baseplate.

Is it the beginning of a house, a building, a street?

They add other bricks, to build a big city that can be seen from far away!

Ask the child to give a guided tour of their city.

Mack does the activity with his sighted friend Owen.
They spontaneously build their house and the road that connects them.

So this is the beginning of a big city.
Can you together build a city here
with the bricks?
You also need help?
Okay.
Okay. Here.
And you can take another one.
You have more here.
And then that part.
So we have a big tower here.
That’s my house.
That’s your house.
And do you know, where is Owen’s house?
Yeah.
Can you show us?
What?
Over there.
Oh, maybe we need a road
to go from your house to his house.
That will be a nice way
to go from one house to another.
When you visit him,
you go from your house to his house.
And I’m at home.
Oh, okay. Okay.
Come here.
Okay. Okay.

Facilitation tips

Ask the children about where they grew up.
Compare and discuss the size and types of buildings.
Give the children minifigures to play with in their city.
Include several children in the activity, using multiple baseplates, so that the children can build a
giant city together.