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Home » 10 ways to play with DUPLO

10 ways to play with DUPLO

Modified: Jul 28, 2013 · Published: Feb 17, 2013 by admin · This post may contain affiliate links or sponsored content

DUPLO and LEGO are some of the main toys we play with, and so end up being used for more than just building. These are our favourite play ideas.

DUPLO play ideas

 

How about some printing using paint with bricks and people?

 painting with bricks

 

Or create a sensory scene with slimy Spaghetti. This was so much fun, and easier to clean up than the paint.

DUPLO spaghetti play

 

Then you could clean up with a DUPLO themed bath?  While in the bath you could work out how many bricks long your feet and hands are?

DUPLO bath

 

Make a game of  Guess Who, we used normal LEGO men for this with a big wall, but you could use DUPLO people as well.

DUPLO guess who

 

Do some simple sums. This is a great way for children to visualise what is going on as they start to do simple maths.

maths game

 

Add some sand for small world play. I think Buzz needs rescuing here.

 

small world play

 

Make a track for a Zhu Zhu pets or cars. This was brilliant as the Zhu Zhu pets managed to go around the corners themselves.

 

DUPLO track

 

Make some fancy patterns. You could also make some simple patterns with bricks in a row.

 

DUPLO patterns

 

Measure how many DUPLO bricks tall you are.

How tall in DUPLO

 

Build some towers and test how strong they are.

DUPLO tower

 

Build a famous landmark ( this is Big Ben )

 

Big Ben DUPLO

 

We made some letters on a big flat board and then placed some paper over the top to make  a rubbing, it worked really well!

letter rubbing

 

 

 

Can you think of anything else we could do?

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Comments

  1. Amanda @gidders1

    February 19, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Some really fab ideas. No wonder your lego looks so shiny and new all that time in the bath 😉

    Reply
  2. donna

    February 19, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    Brillian thanks for this. I’m still a bit useless with getting creative but this really helps x

    Reply
  3. Dawn

    February 21, 2013 at 12:48 am

    We recreated our new house with them and named the rooms when we moved, it helped our autistic son know what each room was and handle the change a bit better. Also he recreated Mario party levels.

    Reply
  4. Chris Stillwell

    February 21, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    Love the idea of playing with duplo in the bath and a game of guess who. Genius!

    Reply
  5. Becky

    February 23, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Great ideas- my son’s preschool class has 16 boys and 3 girls. I am going to pass this on to the teacher!:)

    Reply
  6. Nick

    April 15, 2022 at 9:44 am

    Some nice ideas here, I think I will try the guess who game with my 3 year old.

    I have also written a small post here with some Duplo specific build ideas – https://nicksweb.co.uk/2022/04/12/duplo-easy-build-ideas/

    Reply

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