Let's play Scoop & Build!

Here's how to play Scoop & Build

What you'll need:

• LEGO^® DUPLO^® Bath Time Fun: Floating Animal Train
• Big tub or bowl of water
• Sieve

If you don’t have the DUPLO Floating Animal Train, you can use small bath toys

How to play

• Put the separate bricks of the Floating Animal Train in the tub of water (you might want to place the tub on a towel to mop up splashes, or use the bath instead)

• Give your child the sieve and encourage them to 'scoop out' the bricks one by one

• Talk with your child about what the bricks they've scooped out are and how they match and/or fit together – and get building!

Extra ways to play Scoop & Build – for extra learning!

• Use tongs or a spoon, rather than a sieve
• Ask your child only to scoop out blue bricks or yellow ones. Or 1 of each colour
• Use a stopwatch: how many bricks can your child scoop out in 20 seconds?
• Put numbers or stickers on some bricks – and get your child to fish only for them or award more points for scooping those ones out
• Get 2 siblings/friends to scoop at once (be prepared for a lot of splashing!) or take it in turns to scoop
• Give your child more complicated missions: scoop out 3 animal bricks, for example, or scoop out the bucket

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