Like I said below, I’ve been setting the girls little Lego challenges over the last week. I hadn’t seen the Legoquest blog someone linked to in the comments below which was exactly what I was looking for to inspire me (doh, I am hopeless at successful google-ing); I wanted a Lego equivalent to Sketch Tuesday. I dare say there are more. I’ve set up a Flickr group to put ours in anyway. If anyone wants to join in, do say and I’ll put up our prompts as we do them.
This last two weeks the prompts have included:-
robots to do a job (cuddle robot, vacuuming robot and digging robot) and something you might see in the sky (a bird and chitty, chitty bang bang).
a pen pot on a theme.
Something you might see at the fair.
A cafe; Amelie and Josie did floor plans with the word spelled out (cafe, pub) and Maddy made Starbucks.
We’ve got our hands on some more bricks since, so we can hopefully make some bigger items next.
Our Flickr group is called the PoP Build it challenge; see you there 🙂
I went on a Lego Workshop today at my daughter’s secondary school. It was run by Lego Education – see my pics on Facebook. I don’t know if the Lego Education page would be of interest to you.
http://education.lego.com/en-gb?domainredir=www.legoeducation.com
Ah yes, we know it 🙂 we talked to them at the big bang last week 🙂 what was the workshop like?
It was good. They’s run a two hour workshop for 20 Year 3 and Year 4 children in the morning which my 9 year old just happened to go on. They built an Olympic stadium, athletes’ village, transport network. Rob, the Lego Educator, works full time for Lego visiting school all around Europe. He explained that when you ask young children to build a stadium they pile the bricks on top of each other and then he gets them to cost how much it has cost to build in Lego – then asks then how they could build the same structure using less bricks – engineering, maths, and economics lessons! He was asking the children to work out how many possible ways there were to combine bricks (probability). But basically they were just having great fun!
I went to a later two hour workshop for parents and grandparents where we used the Lego Mindstorm range. Within 15 minutes we had built a robot and within another 15 minutes had programmed it to do a lap of a marked route. (Videos on my Facebook page) Then we added a light sensor and used it to programme the robot to follow a black line. It was great fun, intuitive and exciting! Got to get myself some of that Lego.
Rob was explaining that Lego sell retail products and education products. There are subtle differences between the two. The education products are more expensive but come with proper storage containers rather than cardboard boxes – why does Lego come in boxes that you have to rip open?? They also come with slightly different software.
Hope some of that is useful x
I took a look. It looks excellent. Going to use some of those ideas 🙂
Hi, yes we’d love to see the prompts and try to get it together to join in…
Great idea. x
Aiming to set one going tomorrow.