Blogging about Lego Clubbin and other library program ideas
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 →
Such an easy concept, but this one can get a little complicated fast. I came up with this idea while looking out at my yard. We have to take some trees out, and I instantly thought of tree forts. I thought it would be really simple to build, but once I got started building my... Continue Reading →
Another day, another Lego challenge! This one is obviously a good one to do at home, but I can see this one definitely working for a traditional library Lego Club. The only thing special you need is a big Lego baseplate. The bigger, the better--if you don't have one, you can do your best to... Continue Reading →
For this at-home challenge, I combined one of my first challenges (Lego Challenge–Prison Break) and one of my latest challenges (Lego Challenge–Minifig Adventure Photos.) In the Prison Break challenge, kids had to come up with a way, real or imaginary, to escape a large box. This has the same feel, but this kinda opens up... Continue Reading →
Coming up with Lego challenges that we can do at home has been a little tricky, but this one worked out pretty good!! For this challenge, I had my kiddos build TWO different creations. For the first part, they could build whatever they wanted. A house, a boat, a car, a houseboat, a carhouse, whatever! ... Continue Reading →
This one is another classic STEM challenge I repurposed for Lego Club. After going over rules, I showed everybody a picture of a diving board, a crane, and an airplane wing. Then I asked everyone what they all had in common. An older kiddo eventually guessed that they were all cantilevers, which means that the... Continue Reading →
WRECKING BALL TIME! https://gph.is/g/4wM2XvD I came up with this one when I saw this post, where kids use an apple as a wrecking ball. But as always, I wanted to put my own spin on it and make it accessible to my Lego Club kiddos. So after going over rules, I told my kids that... Continue Reading →
The Holiday Train came through our town recently, so I thought it would be a great idea if we made one big train! So after we went over rules, I told my kiddos that everyone would be making a train car! They could make it a holiday train, but they could really make it anything. ... Continue Reading →
Circus fun!! I came up with this idea completely out of the blue. I was trying to think of simple machines in real life, and somehow thought about the circus too. It's kinda just an easily accessible way to teach some science!! So after we went over rules, I told my kiddos that we would... Continue Reading →
I often combine old ideas and make them into fresh new ones. It's just a great way to still be creative when you haven't had any big new ideas in awhile. So for this one I combined my Monster Maker Lego Club Challenge with my popular Disaster Island Lego Challenge. So we made monsters based... Continue Reading →
The Lego Librarian 