Tell Mega Bloks the ways you make learning fun for your children - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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There’s no doubt that your children think playing is great fun, but they might not always feel quite the same about learning. Mega Bloks would like to hear about the games you play with your children that might sneakily teach them things they’ll need to know in the future, or the techniques you’ve developed to make learning fun for your children.

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So, whether you pretend to be at the supermarket and teach them how to count change or get them to learn about road signs while playing with cars, share your ways of getting your child to enjoy learning, or to make playing educational for their future.

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My daughter has a kitchen set that she regularly plays with. We have a lot of toy money so I set prices on things she makes and 'buy' them from her so she can practise her counting :)

Try to find games that encourage the kids to develop skills or knowledge

My youngest is motivated by food so we look at recipes and then buy the stuff. Working out prices, measuring and working out timings is fun for him. The first cake he ever made was a bit lumpy but we still ate it.

all through arts and crafts

I cut up magazines and make word games out of them. And days out to places like the National Trust

Use games and play to make it engaging or learn with other children

Just include learning in every day activities, like counting the steps while climbing the stairs and big cheers in the end. Doing body parts in the bath. Making animal sounds when we see a cat, dog etc.

we like to count things on the way to school!

I home educate my four kids, and so I like to make it as much fun as possible, kids learn so much more through play, so a lot of our day is based on playing! We play Lego, we play Minecraft, we play board games, and they learn so much. My 6 year old has learned to count so much better from playing things like Monopoly and Yahtzee and Shut The Box, and Scrabble teaches them their spelling, and the four of them playing together teaches them how to work as a team! :-)

We make everything into songs.
Due to this, my daughter has gained an extremely strong knowledge of planets, space and science. She is 5 years old and knows all her main planets (and their characteristics) and even some dwarf ones too.

We literally make songs up for everything...even going to bed and brushing her teeth....

We would count things all the time. DS found this comforting too, so was a good distraction when he was stressed. Counting stairs (going up and then counting backwards coming down), street numbers, mouthfuls of dinner, anything!
Learning can come from anything though and I like to talk through what I'm doing just so my children can chat away with me. When I'm cooking something for instance, or when we're walking together somewhere. Doesn't have to be about anything in particular, but everything seems to get absorbed.

Using a veg shop role play to learn colours, foods (and where they come from) the recognition of numbers (coins and prices), counting coins and manners

Mostly my children learn through play, it's amazing how much they learn if you just leave them to it with educational toys

I have always read them a bedtime story to get them interested in the imagination and books

We made up songs to learn various homework things too I found singing seemed to shove the information further into the brain faster...it sounded weird at the time though but I don't think anyone was watching 😳😂

If you have a reluctant to learn child then you have to make them realise that learning is just life and that everything that you do is learning. My son is reluctant to learn how to tie shoe laces but he is really keen to help me wrap the Christmas presents - so I will add bows and ask him to help. This way he is learning to tie a bow without it being a lesson as such.

Learning can be incorporated into life without it seeming like the child is having to learn. When we need to do maths I ask my son to help me share out the sweets between his bears etc - we work on division.

We work on reading by spotting road signs and by asking for him to help me in the supermarket.

I have always believed in sitting down with my children to make learning more involved, shared and fun, We can have a nice meal or a treat after completion sometimes too (not always though as I wouldn't want to turn it into a bribe situation)

We learn with them through games and playing, we play maths games with toys which really helped with counting i found. Eye spy was very good for learning what things were and getting her to focus on what was around. We also read funny books and really focus on the words

Get involved with them, role play with them with excitement and passion.

Learn through play make it fun from very early children can retain it all !

Playing is the best way to learn. Make it as fun as possible

Using bloks for maths work.
We use the little blind bag toys for catching and making balancing towers.
Counting down with the microwave when it's in use.
Singing silly songs.

When the children are young, it's easy to make learning fun by setting it in a fun context. Little and often when it comes to learning. More of it will stick.

We have a A4 size office wipeboard for practising letter and spellings and when we had maths to do we used moshi monsters for counting, when supermarket shopping is also a good time to do maths with children

We have a A4 size office wipeboard for practicing letter and spellings and when we had maths to do we used moshi monsters for counting, when supermarket shopping is also a good time to do maths with children

Playing! Its the best way to learn.

I got some unit bricks online to help with maths. Having a visual aid seems to make things so much easier to learn.