Jenga blocks and wooden dominos are endlessly useful. In their usual form, you can explore structure, strength and stability. Making domino rallies helps with angles, design and the knock-on-effect of actions and energy transfer.
If you're feeling creative, there are loads of write-on-the-block ideas:
- sums (colour code by difficulty)
- emotions
- questions/conversation starters
- music notes (build a tune)
- word types (noun, adjective, verb etc)
- story ideas (build a story)
- spellings (write a word on all 4 faces, 3 incorrect and 1 correct)