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šµļø Building Challenge Reminder: Is Your Hidden Headquarters Ready? Thereās still time to tackle this weekās building challenge! Every good secret headquarters needs a few surprises. If your builder hasnāt started yetāor their headquarters could use an upgradeāthis weekend is a great time to jump in. Can they build a headquarters with: šŖ A secret…
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You’ve seen the pictures. The perfect LEGO room. There’s a tidy building table in front of a wall of perfectly labeled drawers, with every brick sorted by part type and color. Finished creations are displayed neatly on shelves. There’s plenty of room to build, plenty of room to store everything, and somehow there isn’t a…
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Parents are split on this one! Depending on how things went down right after the birthday party, thereās a chance that LEGO box didnāt even stand a chance. The birthday child has been waiting FOREVER to build this set. The wrapping paper goes flying. The box gets ripped open. Bags and instructions come pouring out.…
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After a strong start in early June, July helped us see a total of over 50 days of posting great content to help families turn home LEGO Chaos into home LEGO oasis! We shifted into having some regularly weekly types of posts — Monday building challenges (and reminders on Fridays), Tuesday and Thursday Articles, Wednesday…
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“If you had a secret headquarters, what would you hide inside?” Every superhero, spy, and villain needs a secret base! Maybe yours is hidden behind a bookshelf, underneath a mountain, deep inside a cave, or disguised as an ordinary building. Fill it with secret passages, high-tech gadgets, and everything you need for your next mission!…
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You help her open the box. Her eyes light up as she dumps the bags onto a tray, and together you spread the instruction booklet across the table. You show her how the instructions tell her to open only one numbered bag at a time. “Why?” she asks. “Because it’s much easier to find the…
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The Brick Surfers family just made it onto a LEGO game show… What’s the host saying? š Share your funniest caption on our socials. š§± Bonus points if your caption sounds like a real game show.
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Earlier this week, we challenged you to build a treehouse. Maybe yours had secret rooms. Maybe it had a rope bridge, a zipline, or a lookout tower. Or maybe it looked nothing like a real treehouse at all. That’s the beauty of open-ended building. A pile of LEGO bricks doesn’t just become a modelāit becomes…
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Whatās the Goal of Family Rules? Obedience? Or teaching your kids how to make good decisions for themselves? As parents, it’s easy to think of ourselves as the rule-makers. After all, we’re the adults in the room. But have you ever stopped to ask what those rules are really supposed to accomplish? Are they simply…
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When parents ask me how to organize their child’s LEGO collection, one of the first questions that comes up is: Should we sort by color? At first, it sounds like the obvious choice. There are far fewer LEGO colors than there are different part types, so sorting by color feels simple and manageable. But here’s…
