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We‘re excited to share with you with the launch of this wonderful book The Unofficial Guide to Learning With LEGO®!
Here’s a little about the book. A few of my fellow bloggers came up with great ideas to play with LEGO® Bricks and launched their book on July 5th, 2016. The book has a collection of 100 activities using LEGO® Bricks with colorful pictures that will attract kids instantly. It is a great resource for kids to learn Fine motor skills, Problem solving and STEM activities using LEGO® Bricks. The instructions are very simple and easy to read; even my 8 year old was able to follow. There are activities for every age group, right from toddlers to elementary age kids.
100+ Ideas to play with LEGO® Bricks
We were lucky to get a free sneak peek copy to try and my little one couldn’t wait to dive in. Honestly, he wanted to do everything in the book except for the sorting and counting ones .He said “Mom ,these activities are for toddlers .” We tried a couple activities and here I share one of our favorite activity from the book .
The Floating Boat Experiment:
Materials Required:
Empty Shallow Dish / Bath Tub
Water
Pennies
Bricks (any variety)
Instructions:
Ask your child to build a boat that can hold the most pennies .They can design a boat of their choice using any variety of LEGO® Bricks. My son spent some quality time in designing his boat.
Fill the dish with enough water for your boat to float and later add pennies to your boat.
Now count how many pennies your boat can hold. The more coins we added ,the boat became heavier and sunk in .
My son was totally engaged in the process for couple of hours .I thought it was perfect for Summer time learning .
Lessons Learnt :This activity helps children develop skills in Science, Math, Problem Solving and Engineering.
If you have a LEGO® Fan in your house, I am sure you wouldn’t want to miss out on these 100 hands on learning activities from the book.
To purchase the book now through July 12, you can get The Unofficial Guide to Learning With LEGO® ebook on sale for only $11.95 (regular price $14.95 !
You can also purchase a copy of real book at Amazon for $24.95. If you get it through Amazon, be sure to email one of the authors, Nicolette, a screen shot of your order and she’ll send you your 100 free printables but remember this offer is only until july 12th. (Send your email to nicci @ learnandplaywithbricks.com.) You can do the same with your Kindle order ($14.95), too.
Check out the video showing few activities from the book in action !
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We have so much lego in our house. Would be a good investment to keep them busy over the holidays 🙂
Oh this looks great and I’m sure my boys would love it.
Perfect timing know a couple of kids who would love this for their birthdays xxxx
This looks like a great resource – my boys have so much lego I fall over it all the time
I do miss playing with Lego, having no children means there is no real excuse to own some right? x
Okay now all I want to do with my afternoon is play lego!!
We love Lego here – this book looks great – some brilliant ideas. My boys would love it. Kaz x
My little girl is still too young for Lego, but I can’t wait till she’s old enough to play with it!
Great ideas here. My eldest is obsessed with his lego