Good morning! (Or afternoon, or evening, or whenever you’re reading this!) It’s a great day anytime we receive anything with the word “LEGO” on it!
We recently received the LEGO Ideas Book and the LEGO Play Book from DK Publishing.
The combination of the LEGO Ideas Book and LEGO Play Book is a great way to encourage kiddos to think logically, build super cool stuff, and play in a more creative way.
The LEGO Play Book includes over 200 different simple, medium, or complex LEGO build ideas. It also comes with a pack of LEGO pieces included for the projects.
The LEGO Ideas Book includes over 500 build ideas! It is broken up into 6 themed chapters – transportation, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and useful makes.
The best part about the LEGO Ideas Book is that you don’t have to purchase any extra LEGO pieces to use it. You can take all of the zillion pieces your kiddos already have and use them to create new builds!
Here are a few of the LEGO build ideas included in the LEGO Idea Book:
Another cool book we received was the LEGO Minifigure Year by Year history book. I didn’t even realize it, but each year LEGO released some cool new mini-figures!
This book shows a visual history of the evolution of LEGO and includes 3 mini-figures as well!
I tried to go back and see which mini-figures they put out the year I was born… but apparently they didn’t put out any that year. Yes, I’m feeling old right about now.
So it looks like 1978 was the closest they had to my birthday. It was mostly community service workers and a few space guys.
1999 had a lot of cool astronauts, and still more community workers.
And the most recent year, 2013, brought about some interesting battle guys.
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My son loves the Star Wars Clones!!
The Ninjago’s from last year, 2012.
My kids love the batman sets! And I grew up playing with legos too… It was a great way I bonded with my step father:)
My daughter and I both agree that we love the non-traditional mini figs, such as Medusa or R2D2 and C3PO because they’re so different.
I would have to say the space figures are my favorite, but I like them all! It is so hard to pick!
I’m not entirely sure who would enjoy the book more: my daughter or my husband. They would have so much fun together though!
the robot from 2012 is pretty cool!
I like service men and also castles, those are the most used ones at our house.
My boys love Legos!!! Our favorites are Star Wars and Lord of the Rings Legos…
Gotta love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
My favorite is the R2D2 or C3PO mini figs. My daughter really likes the non-traditional figures as well, she states that they’re easier to find in the LEGO bin. 🙂