The Kapla exhibit immerses kids into a creative world of building and fun. Kapla is a unique wooden building block made of pine from renewable French forests. Each block is a colorful, small, rectangular plank measuring 1x4.5x.75”. Kapla allows kids to build outside the box, enhancing vision and skill – engaging hands-on experience, concentration and understanding.

Young builders, engineers, artists and architects are introduced to the world of art and design, science and expression, mathematics and history - the joy of creating and learning built into one.

The possibilities are endless: monuments, palaces, villages, bridges and futuristic towers.

Imagine and build unicorns and crocodiles and an exotic birds: in a meadow filled with flowers, trees and bees. Playing with Kapla can be as simple as stacking or as complex as building the great architectural pieces of the world. Discovery Place’s Kapla exhibit will feature some inspiring pre-built pieces including an 8” tall replica of the Eiffel Tower as well as replicas of London Bridge and the Parthenon. The best part is there is no need for glue, nails, screws or caps and Kapla blocks are not interlocking. Each Kapla plank is simply placed one on top of the other and held in place by gravity and balance. The rectangular design is based on a simple ratio of 1:3:5: to 1 that results in constructions of amazing complexity.

Of course what goes up must come down and part of the delight is removing one block at a time until the whole structure is demolished. Crashing to the floor.... again and again. When visitors build with Kapla blocks they are experimenting with the foundations of mathematics, art and science. Lessons of geometry, spatial reasoning, balance, ratios, and estimating are absorbed through play building.

Free with Museum admission, the Kapla block exhibit that has revolutionized play and learning throughout the world will be featured at Discovery Place for a limited time. You can find Kapla on Level 2.

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