My kids adore Lego.
I adore Lego.
Lego is bordering on some kind of magic in our house.
Lego is something all three of my big kids can do together, and it engages them all for a long time. Not only that, but when they play Lego they seem to magically become nice to each other. They help each other and encourage each other. There is no bickering, no whining, and I sit there in awe and wonder if I should just empty my entire bank account and buy more and more Lego!
Lego is featuring a lot on our ‘things to do in the Easter holidays’ list.
Our Thirty Minute Challenges almost always involve Lego and save my sanity daily during the holidays. And now we have a new challenge…
Lego Australia and Toyworld are looking for Australia’s best Lego builder! The winner gets a trip to Lego Land! And while my kids are excited by that, they are more excited by the idea of winning more Lego!
So yesterday we sat down and came up with some ideas. We drew some plans, and then started to build.
A pyramid, complete with sight-seers.
And a dinosaur with a cave man riding on his back!
If you want to enter the Lego Australia Building Championships, all you have to do is build your best Lego construction, take two identical photos of it to a Toyworld Store and fill in the entry form. Find out more details at the Toyworld site.
To help you get started I have ten (yes 10!) Mini Helicopter Lego sets to give away.
These little sets come with blocks and instructions to build a helicopter, sea plane or tug boat!
To win a Mini Helicopter Lego set leave a comment on this post and tell me what your kids would make if they entered the Lego building competition. My kids will help me pick the ten most interesting answers to win.
This competition is now closed. Because we need to choose ten winners, and because the pickle kids are picking them, it may take a little while for winners to be notified and names to be posted here. Thanks for your patience.
To enter you must be an Australian resident and provide a valid email address. Entries are limited to one per household.
Entries close 6pm AEST Tuesday April 10th 2012, the winner will be contacted by email and announced on this post. The winner must contact me within 5 days or the prize will be re-drawn. The winner’s contact details will be passed on to One Green Bean PR who mail prizes directly to the winners.
{Disclosure : I was not compensated in anyway for this post, however we were given some other Lego sets which my kids and I will review in a few weeks. The ideas and opinions expressed in this post are my own. }
I’m sure my son would make a Cricket stadium, if he is not building lego he is playing cricket.
They would make a palace, castle and farm. I can see them building a place fit for kings and queens with a HUGE farm. I love a bit of royalty
My sons favourite show is Ben 10 – so it would most probably be some kind of alien type construction and I’m sure with his imagination the lego men would become the characters from Ben 10!
My boys would make a giant computer and giant robot so they could use the computer to programme the robot (with dads help) to do their chores and clean their rooms.
My 2 year old is obsessed with broomers (cars) so no doubt thats what we would be building all day long.
My kids would make a huge storage shed complete with shelving to store all their awesome lego pieces.
My 4 year old son would probably build an alien of some sort. He loves Ben 10 at the moment!
A big funny looking elephant!
Definately some sort of mystical land with mystical creatures – a vivid imagination is good right?
An aquarium filled with sea creatures will help their creativity and imagination.
we are huge Lego nerd-fans here at our place!
for the Lego comp. my boy wants to build “a giant police crane that lifts the bad guys in and out of their hideout and into jail”. and my little girl “a cake for Snow White”.
My two boys say they would build a treasure island full of pirate to stop anyone stealing the loot!
My son would like to build a full size cubby house out of Lego including a secret hiding trunk for stashing those important toys
Massive Lego fans here too. My three have been discussing how to build a big Lego fairyland with mushrooms, flowers, gnomes, pixies and trees but are a bit stuck on how to do fairy wings and unicorns!
My girl suggested a lego spaceship (but she also quite honestly said that her dad would build most of it…. he will never ever grow out of lego!)