Lego Challenge–Before and After

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, sometimes my ideas for challenges are spin-offs from other ideas. It’s a way to refresh a concept you may have done before, or maybe a way to simplify a concept that may not have worked the best. So I came up with this based on a concept I came up with years ago, but then realized it’s somewhat similar to the the Build a Comic challenge I came up with. The big difference though is in the comic build, you are trying to tell a story. In this build, we’ll be trying to capture an event, what happened before and what happened after. Cause and effect.

So after our usual rules and setup, I told my kiddos that they would be making two scenes–one before an event and one after. Accidents and some sort of destruction are obviously BIG ways to get that point across, but it of course doesn’t have to be that, and can be something more subtle. The point is to try and make two build identical enough that we can see the difference. Maybe even guess what happened in between the two scenes. Like the ship one pictured up top took awhile for some people to get what happened.

I’ll be doing this one with my group in September, so I’ll update this part and tell you how it went then. The thing to stress is that in a club setting that shares Legos, it’s going to be difficult for both builds to be PERFECTLY identical. So try to stress that colors don’t have to match perfectly, as long as the change between the two is noticeable. So perhaps focusing on just matching the key components between the two.

This one has given me the idea to maybe do a “Spot the Difference” challenge, between two builds, but I think that would be fairly complicated and a little too hard for my age group. But something to think about!

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