Free Printable Building Challenge Cards.
These free printable building challenge cards are perfect for keeping kids busy with independent, creative play (and buying yourself a few extra minutes in bed!).
With 16 printable challenge cards, plus 8 blank ones for your own ideas, they work with pretty much any construction set you have at home, and are an easy way to spark problem-solving and hands-on building fun for kids aged 3+
Ages:
3 years +
Learning Areas:
fine motor
Set up:
print and go!
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My kids LOVE dumping out our huge tub of Legos and spending time building and creating. They also love our other construction sets – Zoobs, Magformers, and good old fashioned wooden blocks.
To capitalise on this love of building, and to get a bit of a sleep in, I’ve been setting my kids a building challenge on weekend mornings! I leave out a construction set and one or two building challenge cards. When the kids wake up, they get themselves breakfast and start building while I snooze!
How to Play
Our building challenge cards are a great way to encourage kids to get building, and a fun way to challenge them!
Let the kids choose a card from the set to work on, or set up a challenge by picking a card for them like I did.
You can set up the kids to work as teams to build the item, or the kids can work on building on their own. Because this is such a great open-ended idea it works really well when you need an activity for a group of kids of different ages.
You can also make it a game similar to Pictionary – have one child take a challenge card, but don’t show it to anyone, then they build the item, and everyone else has to guess what it is.
Print the Building Challenge Cards.
There are 16 building challenge cards in this set with ideas that will work with a range of different construction sets. Some of the challenges are straight forward and east, some will require you to think a little more. There is also 8 blank cards so you can add your own ideas too.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
Download the Building Challenge Cards.
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These are great! Would you allow a public library to use them for a summer reading program activity? Thanks!
You may use any of my free printables with your ow class or group (as a teacher or child care worker or librarian) but you may not use them as part of a for profit group, class or course.
Wonderful, thanks again!
Love this idea. Some of the students would love to get involved but a little shy. Choosing a card I think would get them out of their shell. Thanks
Looking forward to trying out these wonderful ideas,thank you so much