So I am going Lego crazy and putting together a lot of lego fun for kid gifts this year. So I figured I would share. First idea I want to share I just found nad not sure if I am going to make it even though I really want to. It is this great travel lego case you can make yourself.
Visit this site for more info. I may make one just for the fun of it. The boys are always asking to take some Legos places with them and I always say no. This could change that :)
The next one is a jar that I filled with 144 Lego challenges so there can be endless play for the new Lego builder and to expand the imagination of the experianced builder. Here is the list so you can use it to.
Build
something using only 40 blocks
A pet
A jungle
animal
A house
A boat
A birthday
cake
A car
A maze for
you hot wheel car
A cell phone
A monster
A bike
A skateboard
A castle
Build
something using 100 blocks
An
instrument
A computer
A tree
A two story
house
A barn
A lamp
A Stove
A toilet
A table with
chairs
A Christmas tree
A Park
Something
from the sky
A bird
A dog and
cat
A farm
animal
A zoo animal
A small
animal
A large
animal
A truck
Build something
using only 4X2’s
Build
something using only bricks
A mosaic of
your choice
A USA flag
Your house
A flower
Build a cup
and drink water from it.
A room in
your house
A bathroom
A classroom
Favorite
food
A square
pizza
A garden
A band
A Disney character
Something Star
Wars
Something carton
Something
for dinner
Something
for dessert
Mario
A church
A ghost
A witch
A sock
A cactus
Something
you love
Someone you
love
An elephant
A super tall
tower
Connect all
of your legos and measure it.
The alphabet
A pencil
A baby
The shape of
the state you live in
One of the
seven continents
A mountain
A volcano
A person
taking a bath
A potato
A stove
A rainbow
The cover of
your favorite book
The sun
The moon in
3D
A picture
frame for a picture you draw
A clock
A vegetable
A fruit
A couch with
a person sitting on it
Your name
A face
A
jack-o-lantern face
A monster
truck
A piece of
art and text it to someone
A baseball
field
Grandma and
Grandpa
A shoe
A bowl of cereal
A mouse
A horse
A giraffe
A bridge
A bridge
with a car on it
Something
Star Trek
An alien
Something
that makes you smile
Something in
your yard
Something
that flies
Something
you dream of
Something
you want
Something
you can grow
Something
that is gross
Something
red
Something
green
Something
blue
Something
yellow
Something
old
Something in
your bedroom
Something in
the kitchen
A constellation
A ball
Something a
girl would use
Something a
boy would use
Your
favorite book character
Your
favorite movie character
Your
favorite place to go
A family of
ducks
A picture of
someone you live with
Your family
A TV
A scooter
Bed with
someone sleeping in it
A bear
A nose you
can stick your finger in
A robot
A space ship
An alien
space craft
A basket
A pretty
Easter egg
A wagon
You own Lego
sign
A tree
during the winter
A squirrel
A rat
An important
person in history
Solar system
(how far apart are the planets)
A present
An airplane
A tractor
A sky
scraper
A train
Yes it is a big list. I placed them in mason jars with a cute tag. I also used cleaned jars from pickles or jam.
I included a Family Fun book to give ideas for family lego play. Not all parents had legos as a kid right. Well I dint know if thats true. But at this link you can print out the entire 10 page color book of great family Lego fun activities.
Lego Brick Tac Toe is one of the fun yet symple things you can do.
On this page you can find printable Duplo Pattern cards. But they can be used for regular legos too. There are quite a few of them and I just threw them into a zip lock bag. It was so nice to find something I could just print out.
Are you looking for a way to make letters fun? Check out these great lego animals that a mother is creating to add a fun eliment to learning the alphabet. Visit her blog and print out letters A-T.
I also made my own lego counting sheet and a sheet for counting by 2's and 4's.
Along with these lego activities I have sent a 650 piece lego bricks bucket so they will have what they need for these activities. I hope you enjoy this and feel free to tell others about my blog. :)
So yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary and we decided that rather than getting someone to watch the kids we would head out and finally see something we had wanted to see this past year ad a half. We went out to visit the Stan Hywet House and Gardens.
The kids really enjoyed running around and finding things. Before we went we watched two things on You Tube. One was a video about the Tudor Revival style of architecture which just so happened to feature the Stan Hywet house. The boys watched and took notes in their minds of things they wanted to look for in the house. We also watched a three part video about the beginning history of Frank A. Seiberling who was the owner of Goodyear tires. The boys learned all about how he started his business and all of the technological advancements the Goodyear Research team developed. 
