Family Fun

Today we share a little building challenge history with you.  Before we began this blog, my family and I had another way of doing LEGO building challenges.  One of us would create bags of blocks, like this one:

Each person would receive a bag with an identical set of pieces.  This bag contained these pieces:

Then each of us would build a model using all the pieces.  We used tall books (think Where's Waldo) to shield our creations from each other until we were ready to reveal them.  The result is different creations that use the exact same pieces.  Here's what LEGOBoy and I (LEGOMom) made for this challenge:

Here are the models we created from a different set of challenge pieces:

This is a great, easy way to get your kids using their LEGOs in new & creative ways.  Try it out and let us know what you think!