59-05-032 Proceeding

285 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress 2004: 8) said that “all children learn through participation, real action, and experimentation with own hands, which is the three parts of a learning process through brain, sensory, and muscles, that all three must be functioned together.” In sum, the block-shaped toys incorporated the visual elements in art were together coordinated well to serve the needs of the preschool children to learn through the act of classification, grouping, and sequencing on shapes, sizes, and colors, in coordination with their sensory experiences and perception that raised their awareness of the objects relationship, and responsiveness to imagination and intellectual perception, which are all the process of cognitive thinking development.Thus the 16 sessions of playing activities with the block-shaped toys yielded a positive outcome on the preschool children’s cognitive thinking development. Notes There are some interesting observations other from the research outcomes that should be mentioned as follows: 1. The physical development was observed.The preschool children exercised their fingers as they touched, grabbed, and used their fingers coordination on playing the toys. 2. The emotion and minds were improved as the children stayed focused on playing with the toys, released their tensions, lower their moods, etc. 3. The social skills were improved as the children became interacted with friends more during the activities. They learn to support and respect each other as they focused on learning and doing together. 4. The intellectual thinking was developed, as they play the toys together, they think, imagine, and use the creativity to shape up their new knowledge. MY FACE AND HER FACE BUILD A TREE