💡 We should use only the same kind of material to build our whole product.
Building a tall tower using only wooden blocks, or only Lego bricks that connect perfectly to each other, or maybe only magnets that connect to each other.
Ice cream in a cone - the ice cream is served inside a cone, so you can eat both the dessert and the serving dish.
Two parts don't connect well, or something breaks easily at the connection point?!When you connect completely different materials, they don't always "get along" well with each other.
Try thinking: what if we build with exactly the same material everywhere, so everything connects easily and strongly?When everything is made of the same material, there are no weak connection points - everything fits perfectly together.
Ready for a challenge? We've prepared some extra challenges for you to tryTry it together. Build a tower from blocks of the same kind, then a tower from mixed blocks, and check which one is more stable.
Easy1. Check together whether it's easier to connect Lego bricks of the same kind than bricks of different kinds.
2. Ask your child where their money is scattered around the house - in their pocket, in a jar, at grandma's.
A bit of a stretch3. Choose together to unite all the pocket money into one place this week, and check if it's easier to track the amount.
4. Check together whether a puzzle connects much more easily when all the pieces are from the same set.
Challenge for champions5. Ask your child to design a new structure made entirely of the same material, and explain why that makes it stronger.
6. Try together to think of a place in life where it's worth uniting a few scattered things into one place.