Blogging about Lego Clubbin and other library program ideas
Oddly enough, this one came to me in a dream, not sure why haha. But one of my favorite ways to share at the end of Lego Club is for kids to interact with each others' builds, like when we've done our Lego Pinball challenge or our Lego Mini-Golf challenge or our Lego Ice Slide... Continue Reading →
This one was the biggest hit I've had in awhile. It seems like the best things in STEM have already been done and it's always hard to find new ideas. Over the years I've based a lot of my challenges off of classic STEM experiments, like my Lego Parachute challenge is based off an egg... Continue Reading →
Being in Wisconsin, I feel obliged to do a Farm storytime. As I mentioned in my other post Storytime–Stories about Farms, using animal sounds is a great way to work on phonic awareness. I stand by that storytime, but the activity I prepped (which you can see in the original post) was a little too... Continue Reading →
This is one I thought of years ago, but never went ahead with, but finally got around to this year. I've seen some STEM challenges about building a structure that can survive a "hurricane" but that's hard to translate that to Legos, so I made it basically into an egg drop challenge, except we're not... Continue Reading →
I came up with this one from just observing kids during a free build. There was one kiddo that filled up his whole Lego plate with Legos and I thought that would be a great challenge. There are some kids that just naturally want to do this, so it's easy for younger kiddos. But there... Continue Reading →
My friend and I auditioned for "Lego Masters" back in the day, and one of the things that they wanted to see was as many builds as possible. So one night we got together to build, and decided to build something simple, like a farm. But that quickly got boring, so we made what a... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite shows of all time is Taskmaster, where contestants get assigned different silly tasks to complete within a time limit. Often times there are two parts tasks, and so that was the inspiration for this one. This one was a little bit like Build a Megafig challenge I did awhile back but... Continue Reading →
My kiddos always love collecting the most interesting minifigs for their builds. For some kids, it's the first thing that they go for. So this challenge kinda celebrates minifigs by trying to duplicate them by making them as BIG as you can!  Don't think there's a whole lot of setup for this one, you just need to... Continue Reading →
Highly recommend this one right off the bat. I thought my kiddos might have some problems with it, but nearly everyone got into the theme and went in directions I didn't see coming. That's really the best part--being surprised but what your kiddos can achieve. So after rules, I told them that the theme was... Continue Reading →
Our summer reading has kicked off at our library, and like many others, we've chosen the CSLP theme of "Imagine Your Story," which celebrates fairy tales and fantasy books. So this whole month, I've been using fairy tales for an inspiration to Lego Club. Each build is broken into two parts. For the first part,... Continue Reading →
The Lego Librarian 