Pirate ships, bridges, flowers, dinosaurs, cars, castles, trains, tents, campfires, palm trees and house. What do they have in common? A child’s imagination, sparked by block play. With UNICEF support ...

A new book, Let’s Play, tasks 100 Swiss designers to play with toy blocks, then photographs the results, looking for trends. It’s a well-documented fact that architects love playing with toy blocks as ...

Playing with toy blocks may lead to improved language development in middle- and low-income children, according to a new study. Playing with toy blocks may lead to improved language development in ...

Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from a nationally representative ...

US Synthetic and its founder Louis Pope charged BYU engineering students to improve the home-building process for rural Kenyans. The students first designed a new type of building block that can ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Playing with blocks helps young children gain language skills, a small study concluded on Monday. After six months, language scores among half of 175 children aged 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 ...

The history of electronic playthings has always been pockmarked with disappointment. For every Milton Bradley Simon — a 1978 game so appealing that it stayed on the market for decades — there have ...

From Game Boy-style dice games through shipping crate storage sims to tabletop card games, Falling Block Jam 2025 is a neat ...

BLACK SUPERMAN: Block’s Clark Kent persona? A full-time day job in medical sales and lab testing. Credit: Frederick Baltimore Little Rock trumpeter and bandleader Rodney Block may not be faster than a ...