Valhalla Park Library just got a colourful upgrade thanks to its new Lego corner that hopes to inspire learning through play!
Cape Town, South Africa (15 September 2024) — A new Lego corner has launched at Valhalla Park Library in exciting news for the community and especially members who are parents.
After the unused space was identified as an ideal spot to be transformed into something useful for the community, the Library Information Services and the Community Arts and Culture Development departments joined forces to create what would become the local Lego corner.
The corner stands proudly as a place that can inspire learning through play; aiming to stimulate creativity, innovation, team building and even coding.
The Library hopes to see the project connect with other community groups, from early childhood teachers to seniors, to help develop spatial and fine motor skills, creativity, hand-eye coordination and other benefits that all start with simple building blocks.
For children, Lego is a particularly nifty way of utilising both sides of the brain; helpful in exercising those logical muscles as well as flexing creativity, both of which are important assets when it comes to foundational skills that help make school that much more manageable.
This comes as another chapter of good news for local libraries, following more good news from Johannesburg earlier this week when Florida Library launched its own Mini Blind Library to make information more accessible to the visually impaired and blind.
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