Let’s play Under The Bridge!

Can you build a bridge for your toys? Do they all fit under it – or do you need to make it bigger?

Child building LEGO DUPLO bridge

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With Take 10 to Play, brought to you with LEGO® DUPLO®, you can discover 10 brilliant 10-minute games to play with your child. Each game is specially designed to boost early learning, and to help you and your child create and connect together – for a smile-filled session of family fun.

This game is great for developing spatial awareness, and understanding the concepts of ‘wide enough’ and ‘tall enough’, key early-maths skills that your child’s teachers will build on in nursery and school. It’s also good for practising fine motor skills – all that bridge building requires lots of careful finger manipulation and hand-eye coordination.

Here's how to play Under the Bridge

What you'll need:

3 soft toys of different sizes
LEGO® DUPLO® bricks (such as those in the Deluxe Brick Box)

If you don’t have any DUPLO bricks, you can use building blocks or books

How to play

Line up your 3 toys

Lining up toys

Help your child to build a bridge from the DUPLO bricks

Building bridge

Ask your child which toy fits under it?

Fitting toy under bridge

Can they make it higher/wider for the other toys?

Toy under bridge

Extra ways to play Under the Bridge – for extra learning!

Involve more toys in the game
Only have 1, 2 or 3 chances to make bridge right size for all the toys
Make a different bridge for each toy
Time how quickly your child can build the right-size bridge
Weight-test the bridge too – put something heavy on it – does it hold?

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