Little Architects Build Houses
Little Architects Build Houses is a learning programme at the Danish Architecture Center for kindergartens, where children play with architecture, colours, and shapes—and build their own creative houses.
Shall we play architecture? Become little architects for a day and build houses at DAC.
Bring the children to a fun, creative building activity at the Danish Architecture Center. Together with a DAC educator, you’ll explore architecture’s shapes, colours, and scale—all at the children’s level. In Little Architects Build Houses, you become architects for a day, as the children use their senses and curiosity to discover the architecture around them.
With the book The Architect and the Yellow Cat as your guide, you’ll play with colours and find geometric shapes at DAC—before getting tools in hand and building big and small creative houses of your own. The programme ends with a mini exhibition, where the children present their houses.
The building activity at DAC is both educational and full of play—a sensory experience that brings architecture up close for children.
For daycare groups: Practical details
Location: Danish Architecture Center
Duration: 1.5 hours
Target group: Kindergartens
Price: DKK 775 (max. 20 children)
Language: Danish and EnglishPhoto: Kontraframe
During the programme, we work with
- Language and experience: You develop the children’s vocabulary for size, colours, and shapes through play and sensory experiences.
- Scale: You explore how human proportions relate to the size of buildings and rooms.
- Colours and shapes: You investigate how different colours and shapes create different experiences.
- The senses: You use the senses to recognise colours and shapes around you.
- Creativity and collaboration: You strengthen the children’s fine motor skills, creativity, and ability to work together through hands-on activities.
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