What can be made from Lego?
The multi-colored Lego constructor, which has been produced for over 60 years, has won the hearts of millions of children around the world. He did not leave indifferent and adults. The set of designers includes not only bricks, but also figures of people, animals, wheels, etc., and some even include electric motors, sensors and microcontrollers. Therefore, you can make a million things from Lego!
Lego figures
From Lego you can create a model of a car, plane, helicopter, ship, structure, train, robot and more. Thanks to numerous models and series, you can make from Lego with your own hands not only what is indicated on the box and in the instructions, but also bring your fantasies to life. However, this is painstaking work, so before you start, you need to study the instructions and be patient and time.
Building a house
In most series of the designer there are various buildings. And, accordingly, you need to decide how to make a Lego house so that it turns out beautiful and natural. The following basic steps in building a building can be distinguished:
- First you need to build a platform, laying out various lines until the desired size is reached.
- Then you should lay out the blank walls of the house. It is necessary to first consider the location of windows, doors, balconies and other openings.
- Next comes the construction of walls with windows and exits.
- Then we make the roof. To do this, you can use the finished model of the roof, if it is present in the structure, or lay it out of ordinary bricks, gradually building one step after another from all sides of the structure.
Creating a safe
So, what else can you build from Lego? Safe! To do this, you need to buy a special kit with the necessary details, because in addition to the usual bricks from which the walls of the safe are made, you will need curved details for the opening mechanism, latches for doors and a wheel with numbering. To assemble the opening mechanism, you need round bricks that will act as a lock. Around each of them, curved parts are installed so that there is a gap between them for the groove. Above assembled structure a slab is placed, then again a spherical part, again a slab and at the end a small round brick is installed for the safe's latch. The cipher of the code lock depends on the place of its installation.
The following conclusion suggests itself: almost everything can be made from a Lego constructor, from entire cities with many buildings to a structure for launching spaceships. It all depends on your imagination.
Lego Duplo appeared at our house when my son was a little over one and a half years old, at that time dad was thinking of what to build. My husband and I imagined that the child himself, growing up, would put the cubes into certain figures, thus developing his imagination and fine motor skills. But nothing like this happened, we decided to try to buy a few themed sets from the Lego Duplo series. They also took our son to a short time, and he himself never built anything.
Knowing child psychology and how different children are, I just decided that I needed to wait. But not idly by, but by offering the child other constructors and observing his reaction to them. It turned out that Alexander likes the wooden constructor more than Lego. The designer Wedgits Starter also captivated the boy, he liked it less than wooden blocks, but more than the subject of our discussion. A breakthrough in the interest of the son to the designer Duplo arose after the order appeared in the details. I wrote about this in an article.
- What to build from Duplo
- Alphabet
- Numbers
- Cartoons
- Interesting Facts
What to build from Lego Duplo
Since writing about children's construction, there have been some changes. Alexander, who is now 4 years 10 months old, began to take out containers with parts himself and try to assemble the composition.
- Mom, I built a forest for you!
The child was on summer vacation, and I work at home, so from time to time my son had to play alone in his room. To express his feelings, he often surprises me. It can be drawings, crafts, phrases written on a magnetic board. And this time there was a forest built from Duplo. The main thing is that everything is clear in this composition: trees, mushrooms, flowers, a bunny in a clearing, a duck in a pond and a house with people and animals on the outskirts of the forest.
All photos with our crafts can be enlarged by clicking on them. A couple of days later, the animals were presented to me. Deer and giraffe.
Naturally, I was very happy with the gifts and expressed my sincere admiration. We left them until the arrival of the Pope, who, in turn, also expressed his delight. Alexander got motivation, but not everything worked out and the child called his mother for help. Then I noticed that if I join the assembly, then the child very carefully observes each cube I put and does the same. This level of copying was supposed to take about two years, but then Alexander was not interested in buildings from Lego Duplo. Now these birds have turned out, one is mine, the second is Alexandra.
Then we built the dogs.
Well, I thought, we need to try to build one structure for two, then each of us will have to contribute his share of imagination. Since I have a boy, I chose a motive according to his interests - a ship. In the end, he became a pirate, which was not at all expected, but Alexander's fantasy played out and they were offered such details as an anchor descending on a cable, Lifebuoy, watching the cabin boy and the ladder along which he climbs up.
That evening we played pirates and I felt the interest of the child, which I did not want to miss.
After returning from a seaside vacation, I played with my son in railway. But I personally am not interested in just rolling a train, and I offered to involve our pets Minion in this business. Of course, Alexander agreed, but with what joy! We built a fortress from Lego Duplo, through which the railway passed. The child again had a desire to make the Minions pirates and a little story was composed:
The Minion family had an engineer. He told the other Minions how to build a fortress and they did it under his guidance. But since they did not have money to buy land, they built it right on the railway track. Soon the Minions were hungry, and there was nothing around to work and earn in an honest way. So they decided that they would be pirates! When the trains passed through the fortress, the Minion robbed them.
Well, if the train managed to slip through, then other Minions jumped on it from specially built towers. They brought the booty to the fortress, where they divided it among everyone.
But here the most interesting began. Alexander immediately chose the role of the train, and I was the villain Minion. After a couple of robberies, the "train" decided to defend itself, and began to drop bombs (wooden cubes) on the Minion. As a result, the engineer had to repair the railway, the fortress, the towers, but the train was armed to the teeth, he bombed and bombed until there was no trace of the enemies left. That evening, our dad could only see the ruins...
The next day, the child solved the dinosaurs, at that moment I was drinking coffee and just threw a phrase that it would be interesting to try to build dinosaurs from Lego Duplo. Alexander, apparently inspired by the game with Minion, immediately laid out the containers with the parts. Five minutes later, a protoceratops appeared before me, then a brachiosaurus came, although initially it looked very much like a giraffe.
And then mom was called to help. The fact is that Alexander really wanted to make the horns of a Triceratops, but no matter how he put them out of the details, they did not look like in the picture. And who said that the craft can not be supplemented? I got hot gun, we found two munitions that look like horns and everything quickly stuck. By the way, hot silicone is very easy to clean off parts, so I advise you to use it.
So, the new school year began, I made a plan of our classes for the month. One of the points of the plan is the repetition of the Russian alphabet. Alexander went into reading whole words, he had a natural interest in the Spanish, English and French alphabets. It was through them that he went into reading in each of these languages, but the Russian alphabet did not interest him in any way. The explanation for this is simple, the child reads perfectly without his knowledge, the brain discards unnecessary information. But the education system is built differently, so knowing that my son learns information best through music, I picked up a video with the alphabet in Russian.
We received knowledge through hearing, now we need to touch it with our hands. Let's build the Russian alphabet!
By evening, Alexander was singing the Russian alphabet from memory, he learned it not just as a rhyme, but by passing each letter through his hands.
Yesterday was Tuesday, and in our family it's an evening with dad. Boys usually play with superheroes, soldiers, but yesterday Alexander SAM offered to build something from Lego. Dad was already ready to collect something grandiose, but in time he noticed that the child himself was sitting and folding his craft. It turned out that it was logical for Alexander to take up numbers after the alphabet and he collected from 1 to 10. There was no limit to the surprise of her husband, he just sat nearby and watched. Well, not quite easy ... during the construction of 10 numbers by his son, he assembled a steam locomotive on wheels.
Alexander is clearly not interested in solving examples within a dozen. But if your kids are just entering the world of mathematics, then I advise you to use the constructor to study it. Having passed the numbers through his hands, the child will remember them better, and playing with his own constructed numbers is more interesting than just writing them in a notebook.
Here's what my dad built. In general, I want to express one thought that has not left me for the past two weeks. Like many parents, I follow the new kits:
- Lego Duplo the engine;
- lock;
- house;
- pirates.
We have purchased all of these sets! But the child does not play with them. He was more interested in building his own pirate ship, your castle for your beloved Minion, your own house in which mom, dad and Alexander will live. And most importantly, all this is really built from individual parts of Lego Duplo, which are bought and donated.
Of course, if the child shows great interest to role play with ready-made kits, that is, it makes sense to follow the news and buy them whenever possible. But if your son or daughter is like my child, then believe me - EVERYTHING can be built, and you will have to use ingenuity, imagination and fine motor skills. I mean, when several sets have already been bought for simple Lego cubes, and there are doors, windows, arches, roof details, a hill, then you can already connect your imagination.
Oh, I almost forgot! Our dad's train.
Lego Duplo cartoons
In order for the child to have an interest in the Lego Duplo constructor, you can show him several cartoons. There are not so many of them released, but now I will share with you only those that, in my opinion, will develop a desire or fantasy in a child with an independent role-playing game.
Farmer Vanya. We're going to visit
This cartoon, if you can call it that, is suitable for children from two years old. It involves Lego Duplo and the little men to it.
Cool races and rules traffic
Highly good video with Lego men. My son loves to read about the rules of the road and follow them. Yes, yes, he always quotes them when crossing the road.
LEGO City Undercover
If your child is 5+ and is fluent in English language, then he will definitely appreciate this Lego movie. It lasts an hour, during which there will be chases, love and American humor.
Cartoons about CARS, LEGO City
Well, of course there are a lot of cars! Air, sea, road transport and all of it from Lego! The cartoon, or rather several of them, are perfectly duplicated. This is just an endless drive, from which I will not hide my son was delighted. Fortunately, the American happy ending is present, the criminals are arrested.
Friends first series
Based on the series Frends, these cartoons are delivered. And although Lego Friends is considered for girls, Alexander enjoys watching these cartoons. By the way, they have quite good content, so if your children like it, look for the rest of the series.
- In Latin, "lego" means "(I) collect."
- In September 2013, Russia's first permanent exhibition of models made from LEGO GameBricks opened in St. Petersburg.
- In 2012, a limited edition of Moleskine notebooks dedicated to LEGO was released.
- In May 2013, the T-65 X-Wing starship from the Star Wars epic, consisting of 5,335,200 LEGO pieces and weighing about 23 tons, was exhibited in Times Square in New York.
- The world's most expensive LEGO brick costs $14,449.
- In September 2013, the Norwegian Jon Jessesen got into the Guinness Book of Records for the largest collection of LEGO series " Star Wars". He collected about 300 kits and nearly 750,000 parts to assemble.
- In December 2013, a full-size LEGO vehicle powered by compressed air pistons was completed and launched. The developers claim that the construction of such a miracle of technology took about 500 thousand parts. The car develops speed up to 30 km/h.
In the popular understanding, LEGO toys are a way to entertain kids for a while with an exciting and educational game. They assemble buildings, roads, cars, robots and other forms from plastic bricks. Inexpensive. Interesting. Children develop their thinking better.
And the children of many countries even submit ideas in letters to manufacturers about what can be made from LEGO, and they respond with the release of new designers. Only added worries to parents: to collect the scattered details of the designer.
Brief history
But few parents think about where the game came from. Little is known about the fact that in 2000 beautiful crafts from LEGO surprised even a competitor from Britain - the toy association: it recognized LEGO as the Toy of the 20th century.
A foreman of carpenters from a small Danish town in the early 30s of the last century formed LEGO groups and laid the foundation for the production of children's toys made of wood. After 17 years, the company, barely recovering from the hardships of the Second World War, switched to the production of plastic components for design. All kinds of photos of LEGO crafts convince adults that the game can be a serious activity for children.
Le-go in Danish means "play well", and in Latin and Italian it is the word "collect". Until now, the first plastic bricks combined with all those released in different years children's designers. And they allow you to perform crafts from LEGO of varying complexity.
At the same time, the developers withstand from the very beginning three tasks that children will have to solve mentally and practically: assembly modularity, assembly and disassembly skills and bring the kids closer to the concept of repairing equipment.
There are also more complex assemblies for teenagers with the inclusion of microcontrollers and electric motors in the designers. Below we will conduct a master class on crafts from LEGO, we will tell you what can be assembled from plastic bricks. For example, a case for a flash drive.
Flash drive
Children simply adore various gadgets (from English it is a “device”, “trinket”, “stray”). Today we propose a project simple creation original LEGO packaging block for a flash drive.
These electronic devices are produced without bells and whistles, as well as in the form of anything externally - lighters, key chains and even bullets. But even in the form of a LEGO block, the flash drive will look very unusual and quite original.
For work should be at hand:
- Flash drive
- Plastic parts-bricks
- Instant Adhesive
- light silicone
- Sandpaper
- Paint (but not watercolor or artistic oil)
Start of production - assembly of the USB flash drive case. Pick up two 6x3 rectangles (can be replaced with 4x3 and 2x3 parts). Cut carefully sharp knife(plastic cuts well) the walls of all the bricks that will be in contact with each other. Glue them. Next - install the flash drive inside the created block in the cut hole.
The main stage of skillful work is strengthening the USB drive inside the case. Use transparent silicone for fixation. Through it, you will need to observe the blinking of the diode "light bulb" - an indicator of the gadget's operation. Fill the void with silicone.
The final part is polishing and painting. Glue the back of the block. Carefully process the places of gluing and joints with fine-grained sandpaper M63 or M50, or easier - five or four, so that the entire surface becomes smooth.
Paint the entire unit, without hitting the protruding USB connector, with a brush or spray paint. Cover the connector with paper. The spray can should be held firmly in the hand and the nozzle should be directed only at the product. It is advisable to wear any goggles to protect your eyes from accidental contact with the spray jet.
Spinner
Toy for adults and children from stress. Factory layout of metal, plastic, paper. We provide instructions on how to make a small LEGO craft. Designers are made of metal, plastic, paper.
For creativity according to our task, select an axle from the designer, a pair of round disks with holes 6x6 and 4x4 (2 pieces), as well as with a hole for the axle and one more flat one. Set aside 8 blocks of 3x2 and 4 - 2x2. Plates mouthk: large between two smaller ones; install a flat one on the axle.
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On it, install the assembled part above, fix it with a flat washer, fasten it with a 2x2 part with a cross-shaped hole. Attach block weights 2x2 and 2x3 to the center. Grab the axle from above and below with your fingers. The spinner is ready to spin.
small house
You can create something from any constructors by mixing blocks from different boxes. For example, a luxurious house is our suggestion on how to come up with a LEGO craft on your own.
A few tips on "architecture". Select several platforms - one for the floor, the other, green, will become the yard. If the house is large, then take a place under the kitchen, hall and bedroom, and, of course, the nursery. If on two floors - select flights of stairs. We wish you success!
Photo of Lego crafts
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All parents know about the benefits of constructors for the development of a child. In stores today you can find a wide variety of them. Why not use them for making interior decor?
Original crafts from the designer can also be a wonderful gift. The main thing is that the parts are securely fastened together, otherwise the product will fall apart at the most inopportune moment.
Constructor "Zoo"
It consists of flat square parts fastened together by means of grooves and teeth located along the perimeter. Some of the squares are hollow in the center. The easiest way is to assemble a rug from them, fastening them together in one plane. Such a rug will serve as a decor for a nursery or for a bathroom.
Details of the designer "Zoo" can be connected in three planes, getting cubes and parallelepipeds. And from them already to collect robots, cars, buses, boxes for storing toys and various small things.
Designer Friedrich Fröbel
It got its name from the name of its creator. As a matter of fact, this is not quite a constructor, and you can’t buy it in a store. But it is easy to do it yourself with your child.
You will need ordinary dry whole peas and wooden toothpicks sharpened at both ends. They can also be successfully replaced by sharpened matches. After the peas dry again, the details of the craft will be securely fastened together.
Peas need to be soaked until sharp sticks can be easily stuck into it. Toothpicks in peas can be stuck at any angle, getting three-dimensional shapes. An excellent material for studying molecules and atoms with children.
Crafts from the designer for children are created in a matter of minutes. Connect 8 peas and 12 sticks in the form of a cube or parallelepiped - you get the basis of the house. A roof in the form of a prism has been added to the upper part, and the house is ready. and such three-dimensional figures can be created an infinite number.
Lego
Even a novice designer will make cool crafts from the Lego constructor with his own hands. If there are children in the family, they must be involved in the work. Each set comes with detailed instructions for crafts from the designer.
The company produces dozens of different series, and all parts are compatible with each other. When some of them are lost, children usually combine several sets and collect whatever comes to mind.
Why shouldn't adults take a cue from them and create decorative items or crafts that are useful in everyday life? Below is a master class on crafts from the Lego constructor.
pencil holder
For its manufacture, you will need a square plate of approximately 10 x 10 cm. Along its perimeter, 4 sides 10-12 cm high must be erected from linear and corner parts.
You will get a cube that will have one plane missing. In such a cube, you can put pencils or spoons with forks in the kitchen.
planter
Nondescript flower pot can be lowered into a planter from Lego, having built a cylinder without a bottom. It is even easier to make an octagonal or hexagonal prism.
Hamster house
If a child has a fluffy pet, and a lot of details from the designer have accumulated, you can offer him to make a house with a spacious entrance. In such a house, the hamster will hide from prying eyes.
Housekeeper
On a flat rectangular panel, lay out a pattern, any drawing or inscription from colored parts. Fasten several parts at the bottom of the panel by pre-drilling holes in them and inserting hooks on which the keys will be hung.
Attach the craft to the wall in the hallway. The hooks can be detached from the sticky backing. These are sold at any hardware store.
Dresser
It will require a lot of details, tens of thousands. Attach several square Lego plates of the same size to a wooden or plywood base.
From linear and corner parts, build bumpers on three sides. At a height of 15 cm, make a horizontal partition of thin plywood, on which you can also fix the panels for the construction of the next floor.
The partition can be made as follows. On the bottom side, make holes around the perimeter so that Lego parts can be inserted into them. For reliability, use glue. Now the partition can be attached to the walls of the first floor. For boxes also use plywood and plates. The main thing is that they are easily inserted into the niches of the frame.
Clock
To make them, you will need a clockwork, a square plate and 12 square Lego pieces. Drill a hole in the center of the plate and insert the clock mechanism. On the panel in a circle, fix 12 parts symbolizing the numbers. The clock is ready.
Framework
From Lego parts, you can make frames for photos, mirrors, children's drawings, placing them on rectangular or square plates.
Chess
On a square plate, lay out 8 x 8 cells in a checkerboard pattern, and from the details of black and white flowers build chess pieces.
Take a closer look at the constructors that the child is tired of playing with. Do not rush to throw them away, but give them a second life by creating useful and beautiful crafts.
Photo of crafts from the designer
The Lego company has been producing children's construction sets with the same name for many years. For the first time, this company patented its plastic products back in 1958. The set includes plastic parts of different sizes, each of which can be quite simply attached to other parts using pins located in its upper part. Over the years, these models sets were improved, and many were interested in the question - what can be done from Lego?
To date, the assortment of these construction sets is very wide: on the shelves of shops there are often various additional details for such a construction set: figures of people, birds, animals, as well as coins, trees, and other attributes. In addition, the designers themselves can belong to a specific theme, for example: wizards, pirates and other characters and everything that accompanies them. But the model of the city or Lego city is the most popular.
Before you start doing anything from this constructor, of course, you must purchase it. Suitable standard set. In order to assemble an assault rifle, pistol or other weapon, you need to start with small parts. By the way, another advantage of this construction set is that even a one-year-old baby can play with it, because its details are not so small as to penetrate the child's respiratory organs. But for the most part, the vast majority of sets are recommended for children over the age of 5 years.
Any lego is accompanied by instructions for the manufacture of a particular element (robot, car, etc.). After reading it carefully, you can special efforts and labor to assemble the designer. The main difference between such instructions is the most understandable description of the assembly steps, and color pictures will make the assembly process clear even to a small child.
With Lego City, the situation is somewhat different: for its construction, most likely, you will need more than 1 set, because here you will have to construct buildings and structures, as well as other elements of urban or rural use. Such a toy will captivate not only children, but also adults!
By the way, for the details of this constructor, there is 1 more bit unusual application, namely, household. For example, such products can be excellent molds for ice! To do this, simply fill them with water and place in the freezer, and then remove the contents from them with a knife. In addition, Lego can be used to make refrigerator magnets, candles, soap molds, or other useful household items.
Now the company is actively releasing new sets with which you can create figures not only from simple parts, but also from gears, chains, various connecting elements, and even a programming block.
The company does not forget about its many fans. In this regard, she opened a number of amusement parks that are somewhat similar to Disneyland, located in Paris. Such parks are called Legoland and Legocity. In them, kids and adults can look at unusual buildings, ride rides and even create structures and entire cities on their own!
DIY Lego crafts: options
Lego bricks are an exciting educational game that children especially like because of their bright colors and colorful design. But its main advantage is the multitude various variations assembly of parts. Any person can collect what he likes more: from weapons like a pistol or machine gun, to cars, robots and even structures!
But before you start assembling the constructor, you need to unpack it and look at the manual - instructions, there the work options will be indicated. This guide is step-by-step, so you won’t have to think long about how to properly assemble this or that design.
If all the assembly options suggested by the instructions have already been tested by you, then you can create a special model or design using, for example, video tutorials.
But a situation may arise when you do not have any of the necessary parts, then you will need to purchase 1 more set of the designer. But you can immediately buy Lego "Freestyle", thereby supplementing the original designer large quantity various details.
The Lego Technic set is very useful for child development, but for starters, the baby should be taught how to fasten the main details together, and then you can already give free rein to his imagination. By the way, this Lego set includes, in addition to the main parts, quite specific ones, for example: motors, gears and chains. Therefore, you need to carefully monitor a small child at a time when he is busy designing so that he cannot swallow small parts.
Work on complex structures sometimes it takes quite a lot of time, so if your son or daughter is under 7 years old, then it can get boring very quickly. To search for the necessary scheme to take the shortest possible time, you can search on the Internet.
But you need to know that different sets have, respectively, and different sizes. For example, when buying Lego Duplo, next time it is better to purchase a designer of the same series if your plans include expanding the details. There are also sets for older kids, and even for those who like to break their heads, such as Lego Mindstorms. Here you will find software modules, many small and connecting parts, and even electronic sensors with which you can easily assemble a robot or car!
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