Happy Lego Auto Ramp Painting
December 18, 2018
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We've been celebrating LEGO WEEK all calendar week long in addition to I've been thus exited to run across all of the awesome ideas my blogging friends convey shared along amongst me this week. I've been pinning them all over on my LEGO in addition to Learning Pinterest board if you've missed whatever of them.
The cardboard sort of dipped business office means down, thus nosotros stuck some blocks underneath to help force it out a bit.
Next I only taped easel newspaper on the flooring where nosotros were going to displace the cars. If you lot convey a long broad gyre of paper, that is easier, but nosotros didn't in addition to this laid upwardly worked fine too.
While I got the pigment out in addition to create on newspaper plates... the kids built their LEGO vehicles.
My miss chose to role LEGO DUPLO spell my boy used regular footling LEGO bricks.
The kids loved exploring colors in addition to making rainbow designs on the newspaper amongst the wheels.
As nosotros explored the pigment in addition to how the wheels operated, nosotros tweaked things similar how the blocks were positioned on the wheels, how heavy the vehicles were, in addition to what items were sitting on the vehicles.
We learned that the simplest automobile ended upwardly going fastest.
I mensurate success of an action based on how long my kids desire to remain in addition to play... in addition to this was ane where I finally had to country them nosotros needed to create clean it up. They had thus much fun in addition to loved moving the cars around to run across the dissimilar places they would acquire in addition to the sort of marks they would leave,
After nosotros created for awhile, nosotros laid upwardly a uncomplicated "car wash" station to allow the kids create clean the pigment off their cars.
Don't forget to caput over to our Sensory Play amongst LEGO bricks nosotros shared on Wednesday.
As nosotros wind upwardly LEGO WEEK, I wanted to portion this super uncomplicated ikon action nosotros tried this in conclusion calendar week using our LEGO bricks. This action was definitely messy, but totally fun.
At my son's LEGO themed birthday political party a twelvemonth or 2 agone nosotros had automobile edifice competitions using LEGO bricks. This calendar week nosotros decided to convey a footling contest in addition to create some LEGO cars in addition to thus race them downwards ramps covered inward paint.
This was fun in addition to messy in addition to also allowed us to convey a footling scientific discipline lesson nearly gravity in addition to forces in addition to weights.
Materials Needed:
LEGO or LEGO DUPLO bricks, LEGO wheels that tally your bricks, large slice of cardboard (or a pad of newspaper amongst a cardboard back), large easel newspaper (several sheets) or a large gyre of paper, washable pigment (we used red, blue, green, in addition to yellow), newspaper plates (or something for the pigment to acquire on), painter's record
SET UP:
For this business office nosotros kept it simple. My laid upwardly was non the prettiest, but it was quick... in addition to when you lot convey a toddler trying to destroy everything you lot laid up... that is important. All nosotros did was role painter's record to attach our cardboard in addition to newspaper to a chair.
The cardboard sort of dipped business office means down, thus nosotros stuck some blocks underneath to help force it out a bit.
Next I only taped easel newspaper on the flooring where nosotros were going to displace the cars. If you lot convey a long broad gyre of paper, that is easier, but nosotros didn't in addition to this laid upwardly worked fine too.
While I got the pigment out in addition to create on newspaper plates... the kids built their LEGO vehicles.
My miss chose to role LEGO DUPLO spell my boy used regular footling LEGO bricks.
TO CREATE:
In club to create all nosotros needed to produce was dip our wheels inward the pigment in addition to thus launch our vehicles off the ramp!
The kids loved exploring colors in addition to making rainbow designs on the newspaper amongst the wheels.
As nosotros explored the pigment in addition to how the wheels operated, nosotros tweaked things similar how the blocks were positioned on the wheels, how heavy the vehicles were, in addition to what items were sitting on the vehicles.
We learned that the simplest automobile ended upwardly going fastest.
I mensurate success of an action based on how long my kids desire to remain in addition to play... in addition to this was ane where I finally had to country them nosotros needed to create clean it up. They had thus much fun in addition to loved moving the cars around to run across the dissimilar places they would acquire in addition to the sort of marks they would leave,
After nosotros created for awhile, nosotros laid upwardly a uncomplicated "car wash" station to allow the kids create clean the pigment off their cars.
We volition definitely live on doing LEGO automobile ramp ikon again!
Note: This is an action that you lot tin dismiss produce amongst kids ages eighteen months/2 years on upwardly but how much you lot honey it depends on you. It volition live on a messy activity, thus live on prepared for that. If your tyke likes to swallow paint, you lot mightiness desire to skip this action until he is a flake older.
Have you lot always painted amongst cars or done ramp ikon before? Any other variations you lot tin dismiss portion amongst me?
If you lot are only joining in, hither are our other LEGO posts from LEGO Week: