Bug got an awesome Star Wars Lego set from his grandparents for Christmas. We spent the afternoon putting it together and for about a week spent lots of time maintaining it in its predefined form. Then Bug was ready to re-purpose the Lego set. There are now a handful of little spaceships all over the house. He said it was much easier to play with and fix the little ships. He asked me to take a photo of the one below.
I just love Legos. What’s not to love? They have such amazing designs which makes me think sometimes that there are adults who get paid to play Legos all day long… this is work that the Bug is doing 😉 . The nature of following those 2D drawing and coming up with an elaborate 3D design is a true exercise in visual perception. And then of course… there is a completely limitless amount of room for creative design on your own.
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My Theo builds with legos morning, noon and night. They are awesome and I never worry about his brain vegetating when he’s figuring it all out. My older son, once obsessed with legos, has moved on to lego mindstorms and builds fully articulated bots these days.
I frequently refer to our ‘curriculum’ as Lego-curriculum. 🙂
Love Bug’s new creation! That looks great. Nice symmetry. J loves to repurpose his legos into new ships as well. Now that you mention it, I don’t think they’ve ever made a Lego set more than once in its originally defined form.
i agree — LEGOS are fantastic imagination/constructions toys! and we love the star wars ones best. ;^)
Tina, we don’t even save the directions. Everything gets made once and after all those Legos hit the big bucket I know it is a lost cause to ever recreate the original. Bug doesn’t mind in the least though.
Mary, I know what you mean about a Lego-curriculum. I think Bug will love the Mindstorms in a couple years. We have a few Mindstorm clubs in the area too.
Lori, LOL – I think we covered our mutual love of all things Lego Star Wars in the past. 😉