📚 Learn🔬 STEM🧩 Problem solving
🗼 Tallest Tower Challenge
Build it taller than them, then knock it down and beat the record.
Ages
2–5
Duration
20 min
Cost
Free
👶 Kid challenge
Medium
🧑 Parent energy
Light · no prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Soft or light blocks only, and build away from faces.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Balance
- ✓Persistence
What you need
Blocks or cups
How to do it
- 1Build the tallest tower you can, together.
- 2Measure it against them.
- 3Knock it down and beat it.
How it actually goes
The honest version — including what "going well" looks like at this age.
- ⏱ 30-second set-up
- Thirty seconds: put blocks or cups on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do
- Line things up, count out loud, and notice what's the same.
- ✅ What success looks like
- At 2–3 they'll do it their own way, not yours, and stop after five minutes. Both of those are fine.
- 🧺 How to put it away
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it
- Older? Count it, then ask how many there'd be with one more.