Lego Quest and Homeschooling, Part 2

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Our lives revolve around LEGO building systems or so it seems. We use LEGO Education sets in our homeschooling efforts. Then, we use LEGO brick sets for any type of free play my children dream up.

I recently discovered a blog (now inactive) which provided a list of 52 LEGO challenges – one for every week of the year. You may have seen my first post in this series. For other LEGO-related posts, please click here.

My son recently finished four more LEGO Quests and here they are.

 

LEGO Quest #7 – Collaboration

The idea is to work with at least one other person in creating a project, whatever that project might be. Well, we all pitched in. Daddy, mommy and little sister helped, but we let him come up with the idea.

Our son decided he wanted to build a home – which I thought was appropriate since we were all going to help him. Together, we built a home. Does anybody else see any symbolism in this?

LEGO Quest Collaboration

LEGO Home

 

He and his sister decided to add a few more details to it.

Finishing touches on his home, with his sister

Finishing touches on the LEGO home

 

LEGO Quest #8 – Your Favorite Book

It could be a character, scene, object or even a feeling from that book. He first chose the book, “Winnie the Pooh.” Then, he was stumped. I suggested a few things and he chose to make Winnie’s honey pot. There he is, taking a picture of his creation, while little sister is looking on.

Taking a picture of his creation

Photographing his Winnie the Pooh honey pot

 

These days, my son is fascinated with counting to 100 by 10s. So he was asking for quest #10, then #20, then #30… Neither inspired him. We continued down the list of quests and we ran out. Finally, we decided to work on (almost) the last two.

 

LEGO Quest #50 – Macro Scale

The idea is to reproduce a brick or a plate in macro scale. He made a small tent and a big tent.

LEGO Tent Macro Scale

Macro scale LEGO tents

 

LEGO Quest #51 – Olympic Event

I reminded him what the Olympic Games are. We looked at the examples provided on the blog, but nothing inspired him. He decided to build a mini-golf course, probably inspired by our latest putt-putt game.

Notice the attendant ready to give out golf clubs (leaning against red bricks in the attendant’s box) and golf balls (in the yellow box). I know, I know, putt-putt is not an Olympic game yet, but maybe it should be, for the sake of five-year-old boys and girls all over the world.

LEGO Mini-Golf Course and Attendant

LEGO putt-putt attendant and course in the background