Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] lego questions
Alan & Brenda Leonard
5/17/03 04:50:
popular and every set is built and played with. Sometimes they collect
dust. You have a nice combination started; my son likes sets because
they're really cool, but seperate pieces to build the stuff the sets
"forgot". (Extra castles for the bad guys, etc.)
Do your daughters need someone to play with them? Sometimes I have helped
Tim get going on a story idea, and then been told to go away for a while.
is free and full story lines, ideas of things you can build, pictures of
things other kids have built, etc. Lego shop-at-home comes with a catalogue
of all sorts of stuff, or just go to the toy store and see what suits their
interests.
pieces and builds every set he owns. (That's about a three-day project
around here. We must have a couple million lego pieces. Maybe we'll count
someday...) But most of the time, Tim is in there with the knights and his
two castles (neither from sets, just ones he and his dad built) and the
knights fight, the princess does magic, etc.
One of the great things you can get from the Lego shop-at-home folks is sets
of "extras". There's a set of about 30 people, supposedly townfolk. There
are sets of swords and shields, sets of hats and extra hair, etc. Those are
inexpensive ways to really expand your play.
Also, the big sets are fun but expensive, and mainly for lots of bricks,
baseplates, etc. The little sets often include people and "extras" like a
horse, accessories, etc. that are more fun to make up stories with, at least
for my son.
brenda
> Hi. Lego question. Our 7 yr old going on 8 girls asked for Lego for Xmas andI do find that legos go in phases around here. Sometimes they're very, very
> got a tub of assorted pieces from a cousin. two base plates and three Harry
> Potter small sets from us. Have not played with it a lot.
popular and every set is built and played with. Sometimes they collect
dust. You have a nice combination started; my son likes sets because
they're really cool, but seperate pieces to build the stuff the sets
"forgot". (Extra castles for the bad guys, etc.)
Do your daughters need someone to play with them? Sometimes I have helped
Tim get going on a story idea, and then been told to go away for a while.
> what is available that would add interest for them?Go to the lego website (lego.com, I think) and look around. Lego magazine
> Someone mentioned Lego magazines? Anything else out there?
is free and full story lines, ideas of things you can build, pictures of
things other kids have built, etc. Lego shop-at-home comes with a catalogue
of all sorts of stuff, or just go to the toy store and see what suits their
interests.
> They are building right now but usuallyNot my boy. He has times when he really wants to build, and then he sorts
> abandon it in favor of "ready to go" characters. Do most boys like the
> building part more than the "story making part"?
pieces and builds every set he owns. (That's about a three-day project
around here. We must have a couple million lego pieces. Maybe we'll count
someday...) But most of the time, Tim is in there with the knights and his
two castles (neither from sets, just ones he and his dad built) and the
knights fight, the princess does magic, etc.
One of the great things you can get from the Lego shop-at-home folks is sets
of "extras". There's a set of about 30 people, supposedly townfolk. There
are sets of swords and shields, sets of hats and extra hair, etc. Those are
inexpensive ways to really expand your play.
Also, the big sets are fun but expensive, and mainly for lots of bricks,
baseplates, etc. The little sets often include people and "extras" like a
horse, accessories, etc. that are more fun to make up stories with, at least
for my son.
brenda