All Things Beautiful: Lego Challenges

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Introducing: LEGO Challenges and Challenge #1: Two Dimensional Design

Last year I introduced to All Things Beautiful a year's worth of Lego challenges beginning with this one, a Two Dimensional Design.

Two Dimensional Design

This weeks challenge is to create a Two dimensional design.

Two dimensional is having only the dimensions of height and width, like a square. Three dimensions is having height, width and depth, like a cube.

This can be almost anything. It can be a representation of an object, a piece of artwork, either realistic, or abstract, a mosaic, a picture of something you like...anything you want, as long as it is flat.

Pretend like you are drawing or painting or taking a photograph, but try to create it out of Legos!

Here are some examples from those who participated.

Top - Rafael (4) - an E
Bottom Left - Michaela (5) - a person. (top is head w/ eyes and pink mouth, plus body)
Bottom Right - Mom (hey, I can do it too, right!?) - flowers, clouds, sun
from Homeschool is Where the Heart is

I gave Capt. N the added challenge that whatever he made had to do with something we were studying in school. He knew right away that he wanted to make a lego version of our skeleton guy.
from Ridgetop Ramblings 2

Robbie loved the idea of Lego Challenges and ran off to build "scenes", as he called them. This was a great opportunity to discuss 2-D vs. 3D.

Robbie is a five-year-old Lego addict. Here are the three scenes he made (described in his own words).

"Luigi is trying to get all of the colorful coins, but the cloud is in his way."

"Bowser from Super Mario 64."

"Mario jumping over the fire Bowser is breathing."

from Spinner's End Primary at the Linton Academy

This activity is now closed, but feel free to use the weekly challenges as inspiration.

source: Inspired by Sam's Lego Quest, (which is no longer active)

LEGO CHALLENGE #52: THE FINAL ONE: Birthday Cake

Inspired by Sam's Lego Quest, (which is no longer active), I wanted to start a

weekly Lego challenge

that kids can do and you can link up to.

This linky has been open for a whole year, and will be closed soon. If you want to link up, please do so this week.
With the photo, please give your child's age, what country (or, if the the US, what state) you are from and anything your child wants to say about his or her creation.This can be simple or extremely complex, it's up to you. The only real rule is that it has to be custom built. Your own creation, not a pre-designed one.

You can write a separate post for the challenge or you can just add the photo of your child's entry for the challenge to a weekly wrap-up post.

Photo Credit

Lego Challenge #52: THE FINAL ONE: Birthday Cake
Well, we have made it a full year of Lego challenges. To celebrate the one year mark, I thought I would put up a birthday cake challenge. Can you make a birthday cake or a slice of birthday cake to celebrate the Lego challenges being up for one year?
Lego Challenge #1 will be ending in a few days and then the Lego challenge linkies will end, one at a time each week, so if you want to link up, be sure to check them out soon.

Here are other Lego Challenges You Can Do:

#1: Two Dimensional

#2: 2 x 2 Bricks

#3: Make a Scene

#4: Design a Creature

#5: Something That Moves

#6: Spring!

#7: Garden

#8: Your Favorite Book

#17: Boats and Buoyancy

# 18:Maximum Height

#19: Bird House

#20: Two Cups of Random Bricks

#21: Growing

#22: Aircraft

#23: The 30 Brick Challenge

#28: Engineering Feats

#29: Ancient Monument

#38: Repair or Replace

43: Wrapped Object
44: Holiday Scene
45: Surrealism

46: UFO
47: Country
48: Winter
49: Use Only One Color Bricks
50: Shadow
51: Natural Disaster

With the photo of your child's creation, please give your child's age, what country (or, if the the US, what state) you are from and anything your child wants to say about his or her creation.

Lego Challenge #51: Natural Disasters

Inspired by Sam's Lego Quest, (which is no longer active), I wanted to start a

weekly Lego challenge

that kids can do and you can link up to.

You can write a separate post for the challenge or you can just add the photo of your child's entry for the challenge to a weekly wrap-up post.

Lego Challenge #51: Natural Disaster

Can you create a natural disaster scene out of LEGO?
A natural disaster is any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences.
Here is a list of natural disasters to give you a few ideas, but you need not stick to this list.

Avalanche

Blizzard

Cyclone

Drought

Earth Quake

Forest Fire

Floods

Hurricane

Hail Storm

Ice Storm

Landslide

Lightning

Meteoroid Impact

Mudslide

Solar Flare

Tsunami

Tornado

Typhoon

Tropical Storm

Thunderstorms

Volcanic Eruptions

Winter Storms

Wild Fires

Here are other Lego Challenges You Can Do:

#1: Two Dimensional

#2: 2 x 2 Bricks

#3: Make a Scene

#4: Design a Creature

#5: Something That Moves

#6: Spring!

#7: Garden

#8: Your Favorite Book

#17: Boats and Buoyancy

# 18:Maximum Height

#19: Bird House

#20: Two Cups of Random Bricks

#21: Growing

#22: Aircraft

#23: The 30 Brick Challenge

#28: Engineering Feats

#29: Ancient Monument

#38: Repair or Replace

43: Wrapped Object
44: Holiday Scene
45: Surrealism

46: UFO
47: Country
48: Winter
49: Use Only One Color Bricks
50: Shadow

With the photo of your child's creation, please give your child's age, what country (or, if the the US, what state) you are from and anything your child wants to say about his or her creation.

Lego Challenge #50: Shadow

Inspired by Sam's Lego Quest, (which is no longer active), I wanted to start a

weekly Lego challenge

that kids can do and you can link up to.

You can write a separate post for the challenge or you can just add the photo of your child's entry for the challenge to a weekly wrap-up post.

Lego Challenge #50: Shadow
In honor of Groundhog's day, I thought we might play with shadows. Build something, or a number of things, that you think would cast a great shadow. Take your creation to a bright spot, inside or outside and observe the shadow it casts. Move it around until it makes the shadow you like best. Notice how the shadow changes when it is cast on a wall, compared to the sidewalk, compared to the texture of a tree trunk. Where do you like the shadow best?

Take a picture of only the shadow.
Or, you can make an object out of Legos and also make the shadow you think it would cast.

Here are other Lego Challenges You Can Do:

#1: Two Dimensional

#2: 2 x 2 Bricks

#3: Make a Scene

#4: Design a Creature

#5: Something That Moves

#6: Spring!

#7: Garden

#8: Your Favorite Book

#17: Boats and Buoyancy

# 18:Maximum Height

#19: Bird House

#20: Two Cups of Random Bricks

#21: Growing

#22: Aircraft

#23: The 30 Brick Challenge

#28: Engineering Feats

#29: Ancient Monument

#38: Repair or Replace

43: Wrapped Object
44: Holiday Scene
45: Surrealism

46: UFO
47: Country
48: Winter
49: Use Only One Color Bricks

With the photo of your child's creation, please give your child's age, what country (or, if the the US, what state) you are from and anything your child wants to say about his or her creation.

Lego Challenge #49: Use Only One Color Bricks

Inspired by Sam's Lego Quest, (which is no longer active), I wanted to start a

weekly Lego challenge

that kids can do and you can link up to.

You can write a separate post for the challenge or you can just add the photo of your child's entry for the challenge to a weekly wrap-up post.

Lego Challenge #49:Use Only One Color Bricks

Can you make something using only one color bricks? You can use any size or shape, but they must be the same color...You pick the color.

Here are other Lego Challenges You Can Do:

#1: Two Dimensional

#2: 2 x 2 Bricks

#3: Make a Scene

#4: Design a Creature

#5: Something That Moves

#6: Spring!

#7: Garden

#8: Your Favorite Book

#17: Boats and Buoyancy

# 18:Maximum Height

#19: Bird House

#20: Two Cups of Random Bricks

#21: Growing

#22: Aircraft

#23: The 30 Brick Challenge

#28: Engineering Feats

#29: Ancient Monument

#38: Repair or Replace

43: Wrapped Object
44: Holiday Scene
45: Surrealism

46: UFO
47: Country
48: Winter

With the photo of your child's creation, please give your child's age, what country (or, if the the US, what state) you are from and anything your child wants to say about his or her creation.

Lego Challenge #48:Winter

Inspired by Sam's Lego Quest, (which is no longer active), I wanted to start a

weekly Lego challenge

that kids can do and you can link up to.

You can write a separate post for the challenge or you can just add the photo of your child's entry for the challenge to a weekly wrap-up post.

Lego Challenge #48: Winter

What do you think of when someone says the word "winter"?

Create something out of LEGO that reminds you of winter. It could be a winter scene or a snowflake or anything else that reminds you of winter.

Here are other Lego Challenges You Can Do:

#1: Two Dimensional

#2: 2 x 2 Bricks

#3: Make a Scene

#4: Design a Creature

#5: Something That Moves

#6: Spring!

#7: Garden

#8: Your Favorite Book

#17: Boats and Buoyancy

# 18:Maximum Height

#19: Bird House

#20: Two Cups of Random Bricks

#21: Growing

#22: Aircraft

#23: The 30 Brick Challenge

#28: Engineering Feats

#29: Ancient Monument

#38: Repair or Replace

43: Wrapped Object
44: Holiday Scene
45: Surrealism

46: UFO
47: Country

With the photo of your child's creation, please give your child's age, what country (or, if the the US, what state) you are from and anything your child wants to say about his or her creation.