Happy Lego Selection & Deed Edifice Game

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This calendar week nosotros are hosting our 2nd annual LEGO WEEK! We had hence much fun amongst LEGO Week terminal year that nosotros needed to practise it again!

We dear coming upwards amongst fun in addition to playful learning activities using LEGO in addition to LEGO DUPLO. This calendar week we'll live sharing v days of cool activities all focused on ways to play in addition to larn using LEGO. Activities featured volition live primarily for kids ages 3-5 though many of them could live modified to live used amongst older or younger kids. 

If y'all are only getting started amongst LEGO DUPLO, hither is my favorite basic LEGO Duplo starter kit. We too similar these building plates for edifice on.

For our outset LEGO Week action nosotros are sharing a cool alternative in addition to displace edifice game. Kids alternative a LEGO challenge in addition to and hence acquire to practise a picayune crusade action earlier they start building. 

We are e'er trying to discovery ways to embed crusade into learning in addition to this action helps kids locomote on color recognition piece too doing some gross motor movements AND using hand-eye coordination in addition to fine motor skills every bit they construct their creations amongst LEGO. We chose to utilisation LEGO DUPLO for this action but y'all tin give notice easily utilisation smaller LEGO every bit well.

(this is exclusively one-half of our DUPLO collection, the residuum came out every bit nosotros needed to a greater extent than colors)

To acquire started nosotros brought our buckets of LEGO outside. Taking activities exterior tin give notice live a existent game changer. Seeing materials inwards a dissimilar infinite tin give notice spark the imagination differently. In our case, commonly our LEGO stash is unopen past times loads of other toys. In this action the buckets of LEGO were the exclusively things outside. My kids discovered all sorts of novel pieces in addition to focused inwards a completely dissimilar agency than they commonly focus when edifice inwards our playroom.

To play our LEGO Pick & Move Building Game y'all exclusively postulate a few things. 

Here is your supplies list:

• red, orange, yellow, blue, in addition to greenish cardstock
• Free LEGO printable pdf from Delia Creates
• tissue box
• white wrapping newspaper (I used white easel paper)
• tape
• scissors
• markers
• LEGO duplo inwards a multifariousness of colors

Here's what y'all postulate to prep ahead:

To acquire started I wrapped a minor tissue box amongst white easel newspaper in addition to record in addition to and hence I made certain to acquire out a hole at the top. 

Next I printed out some colorful LEGO newspaper using the Free LEGO printable pdf from Delia Creates in addition to some colored cardstock. I did 1 on each color.

Next I cutting out the colored cardstock bricks into dissimilar shapes (mostly square, though some rectangle). I glued a few onto the sides of our white tissue box (just to clothing it upwards a bit) in addition to and hence on the residuum I wrote some LEGO challenges.

LEGO Challenges are only suggested things for the kids to build... only to acquire their juices flowing.

Each colorful carte du jour had 1 or 2 words on the dorsum to say the kid what to build. 

Here are a few LEGO challenge examples of things for kids to build:

• playground
• tower
• house
• zoo
• pool
• birdhouse
• car
• boat
• airplane
• tree house
• rocket
• school

With younger kids only doing a tower is the easiest. With older kids y'all tin give notice acquire fifty-fifty to a greater extent than complex in addition to inquire them to construct their favorite location inwards a displace or their favorite house to become to eat, etc.

Additionally I came upwards amongst a listing of elementary crusade activities

outpouring across the room/yard

smash off into the air similar a rocket

run a circle only about the room

practise twenty jumping jacks

crab walk across the patio

walk only about making sounds similar your favorite animal

pretend to wing only about the border of the yard/room

practise 10 doggie kicks

arm circles

kicking your legs v times

Here's how y'all play the LEGO Pick & Move Building Game:

1. Pick a colored LEGO carte du jour from the box.

2. Do a crusade action (you tin give notice either bring a seperate pile of cards that kids alternative from or only say them their movement)

(blasting off similar a rocket)

(running a lap only about the yard)

3. Start your challenge! For the difficult version of the game the kids had to brand their projection ONLY using the color of LEGO that was on their card. For example, if their yellowish carte du jour said "playground" in addition to hence they would postulate to construct a playground exclusively using yellowish bricks.

This was slowly for my seven yr former in addition to a chip harder for my four yr old. My 2.5 yr former only stuck to edifice amongst whatever color he wanted to use.

(tree house)

(playground)

(diving board for a pool)

(making a zoo)

I dear what these picayune imaginations come upwards up with! Do your kids bring a favorite edifice projection they similar to make? 

Have whatever suggestions of other things to brand every bit purpose of the LEGO challenges?

If y'all desire additional awesome LEGO Week ideas caput on over to our 2nd Annual LEGO Week landing page to encounter all of the awesome ideas that are beingness shared today! Here are a few from today...

• Awesome Star Wars ABC LEGO Game shared past times JDaniel 4's Mom
• DUPLO Rhyming Word Matching from This Reading Mama
• LEGO Memory Game for Kids from The Educators' Spin On It
• LEGO Stamped Gift Wrap past times I Can Teach My Child

Don't forget to come upwards dorsum tomorrow to encounter what nosotros are going to portion next! LEGO Week volition live going all calendar week long! If y'all are on instagram come upwards portion your photos of what y'all practise this calendar week using the hashtag #legoweek. I'd dear to come upwards cheque them out! I am @kristinatoddlerapproved on Instagram.

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