Friends of ours recently gifted our boys the book 365 Things To Do with LEGO Bricks, a fantastic collection of creative ways to use your LEGOs. It includes many STEM challenges as well as lots of artistic inspiration.
Our five-year-old has been enamored with this book and has spent hours pouring over the many activities. He landed on building a maze — similar to the game Labyrinth — and enlisted his dad for some technical support. Together, they came up with a really cool design. See it in action here:
After a couple of hours enjoying his new maze, he decided that it was too easy. He kicked it up a notch by adding another layer of bricks, covering parts of the maze so that the ball goes out of sight. Quite a bit more challenging!
We always want to encourage our kids to think outside the box, to apply their ideas in tangible ways, and to trouble-shoot when things don’t quite go according to plan. LEGOs are just one way to give your children that creative space for innovation, experimentation, and revision.