Developing fine motor skills is essential for young children to develop and increase dexterity and strength in their hands and fingers. This will promote their increased dexterity and precision, allowing them to learn how to grasp and release objects, and then learn how to balance stacked objects. Through repeated play with stacking toys, they learn to coordinate the muscles in their hands and fingers and manipulate them to where they want them to go.

Eye-hand coordination refers to the ability of the eyes to guide the movement of the hands. For example, catching a ball or stacking pieces together. Stacking trains children to imagine objects and get information from their eyes about how to move their hands and objects.

When you watch young children stack blocks, you’ll see them actively problem-solving, deciding how to stack the blocks so they don’t tip over. They’ll solve the problem through trial and error, and the game becomes more repetitive as they discover new things. Another benefit is that their creativity is enhanced by building and stacking blocks or placing rings on poles and stacking them.

Balance can be achieved not only by balancing one's own body, but also by interacting with external objects such as toys. Stacking toys help teach children balance because they need to control the movement of their arms, hands and fingers to move the different components of the toy and stack them on top of each other without the tower collapsing.

Stacking teaches children depth perception and spatial relations, the ability to understand where objects or their own bodies are in space (such as below and above).

Stacking toys also provide social benefits for infants and toddlers. Children can learn social skills with these toys, including cooperation, sharing, and taking turns. When children play with stacking toys together, they learn how to share items and take turns stacking them.

They can also learn to cooperate by building towers or pyramids. These toys can also help children express emotions and communicate by discussing their actions and creating together.