六色積木 Six Bricks

November 10, 2020

Children have the right to play. Bringing Six Bricks activities into the home allows children to learn/isolate at home, providing a temporary escape from the worries of the real world and giving them more room to breathe. When caregivers play with children, even if some children cannot yet speak or respond concretely, interacting, communicating, and taking turns leading with them can foster their holistic development.

Furthermore, it helps children alleviate anxiety and unease during home-based learning/isolation. It allows both children and caregivers to "Take a break."

What is Six Bricks?

The concept of Six Bricks was created by Care for Education (CFE) in South Africa and fully supported by the LEGO Foundation. It involves training with six Duplo-sized LEGO bricks. This LEGO-guided model, developed based on neuroscience, can be widely applied in holistic education, parent-child play activities, counseling, corporate training, employee assistance programs, and activities for seniors and social welfare.

Children can use it to enhance their diverse development in cognition, abstract concepts, gross and fine motor skills, creativity, and short-term memory.

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Basic mini-games for Six Bricks are as follows:

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Game 1

How to play: Stack bricks using clothespins.
Benefits: Trains the flexibility of the thumb and index finger, helping children hold pens and chopsticks.

Game 2

How to play: Each brick has eight studs. Give children tasks to build various numbers of studs. For example, in the picture, each brick combination has twelve studs.
Benefits: Allows children to build number concepts from a bird's-eye view.

Game 3

How to play: Can be played with paper cards, where children build bricks according to the pattern on the cards.
Benefits: Trains hand-eye coordination, observation skills, and concentration.

Game 4

How to play: Have children build bricks according to the text description on the cards.
Benefits: Trains children's language skills.

Game 5

How to play: Place two or three bricks on the child's hand, shoulder, or head and have them move around.
Benefits: Trains balance.

Game 6

How to play: In pairs, back-to-back, each person has a set of bricks. One person first builds a brick structure, then describes it to the other person, instructing them to build an identical structure. The color and combination must be the same to be correct.
Benefits: Trains listening and expression skills.

If you want to know more about Six Bricks, you can visit the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) YOUTUBE channel to watch a series of 12 instructional videos on Six Bricks:

Six Bricks activity (Ep1) – Tricky Tower