The coolest collection of play and learning LEGO activities for kids that are sure to keep them entertained for hours! From simple LEGO learning activities to fun building projects to suit different ages. Time to put your building hat on and get creative!
We are obsessed with LEGO in our household, just as many of our friends and family have little LEGO fans too. Both my husband and I grew up building with the rainbow-coloured bricks and now our kids are becoming LEGO masters in their own ways.
There’s a lot to love about LEGO. It’s one of those toys that has lasted the decades and will be here for a long time to come.
They are continually reinventing and providing a fun building experience that all ages can appreciate.
But there is a lot more to LEGO than just building the sets! And I’m going to share with you a load of fun ways to play with LEGO, plus several ways you can learn with LEGO too.
Don’t underestimate the benefits of this simple toy.
Kick off with some awesome LEGO storage solutions to keep your growing collection organised.
Benefits of LEGO Play
LEGO provides a creative opportunity for kids (and grown-ups) to use their imagination to construct new masterpieces.
It promotes problem-solving, improves fine motor skills and helps them to develop planning and patience abilities through play.
LEGO bricks are a perfect activity for kids at home. It also means getting them away from technology for a while too.
Here are some of the cool ways that playing with LEGO benefits children:
- Helps improve fine motor skills
- Encourages creativity
- Teaches kids to plan, organise and solve-problems
- Provides STEAM learning opportunities – Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics
- Makes learning fun for all ages
- Can use to teach basic skills such as colours and shapes
- Encourages cooperative play
LEGO even have their own learning resources available to encourage the benefits for families to find new ways to enjoy the diverse toy brand at home or when homeschooling.
Fun Ways To Play & Learn With LEGO
The playing and learning LEGO activities for preschoolers and kids are practically endless. In case your children need new inspiration, we are sharing our favourite LEGO activities for kids and some cool things for you to try at home too:
Build A Set
We are kicking off with a really obvious one.
Building a LEGO set is a skill that kids develop over time. It encourages them to follow instructions and plan the steps as they follow the manual.
Our kids call them the LEGO maps and our eldest is an expert builder these days, while her younger sister still requires help from one of us to build the sets. It used to be so devastating when they dismantled a set I had spent hours building for them.
Now they can break and rebuild as often as they like.
Colour Sorting
Colour sorting with bricks is a fantastic early learning activity to teach basic colour identification and sorting skills with younger children. It also benefits their fine motor skills as they sort the pieces.
If doing this activity with a toddler, Duplo is a better option as it is safe for younger children.
Even now our kids often colour sort their bricks, simply to make it easier for their building and finding pieces.
Colour Themed Builds
Another thing our kids do often once their bricks are all sorted by colour is to use their imagination to create something using just those colours. There are so many fun things to build with Legos that their imaginations can come up with.
Often this involves them making colour-themed houses since they like to create little cities for their mini figures.
However, this activity encourages creativity to build anything they can think of and it is a great way to get kids planning.
Marble Maze
Turn your LEGO base plates into a game by creating simple or elaborate marble mazes. Get them to take turns creating tricky mazes for each other, or you can give them an extra challenge by creating a maze of your own.
This is a fun problem-solving activity that goes beyond simple building.
Building Challenges
There is a load of LEGO challenges available, with each day giving a different building challenge to complete. This is a fun challenge to give your kids, revealing a new challenge each day.
This is another great activity that encourages kids to problem-solve. It challenges them to think outside the pre-made sets. Instead building and designing creations of their own.
This is a wonderful STEM activity and fun seeing the tiny details they think of along the way.
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Re-Creation Challenge
Another fun building challenge is having your child recreate something from LEGO. This could be an item in your house… or your house! It could be using bricks to recreate a photograph image.
Our house elf Bo had a little fun with recreating himself during one of his December visits!
Car Races
Have your children compete against their siblings or friends to create the fastest vehicle. They can each make a car or bike from LEGO pieces. Then test them out to see which goes the furthest or the fastest.
As your LEGO collection grows, make sure you’ve got some great toy storage solutions organised!
More Lego Learning & Play Ideas
From LEGO challenges to building games, LEGO books and learning activities, these rainbow brick activities are sure to bring endless hours of fun to your kids at home!
LEGO BUILDING IDEAS
This is one of my favourite building ideas! Build famous landmarks with printable challenge cards. What a cool idea!
For Star Wars fans, they will love recreating a mosaic image of their favourite characters.
Why not build some functional LEGO decor. This cool clock is a fun idea for kid's bedrooms!
Free printable challenge cards to create pirate images.
Fortnight fans will love these V-Bucks. Use as a part of your home rewards system or just for fun.
Another for the gaming addicts, this Minecraft game is sure to provide loads of fun and is so easy to make.
If you are travelling soon, these free challenge cards are great for challenging kids while away from home.
This game is fun for the whole family with a Pictionary style charades game.
Start a medieval war with your LEGO village with this catapult idea.
Have your kids put on a show for you at their mini puppet theatre.
For LEGO fun outdoors, this zip line idea is really cool and sure to provide loads of entertainment.
A LEGO travel kit idea for kids.
Another way to put together a compact LEGO travel activity kit for your children.
Create your own fidget spinner. This is a simple activity kids can do.
Battle it out on the football field with this simple game for 2.
A bit like Twister for LEGO, this challenge game is great for kids who can't decide what they want to build next. They can play solo or with friends.
Another LEGO challenge idea with 30 days of ideas of things to build.
Not so much a building idea but a cute way to add a feminine touch to your minifigures.
LEGO LEARNING ACTIVITIES
This is a very simple way to teach science and anatomy with younger children. You could do similar with animals or humans too.
Make learning fun with this LEGO mathematics game.
For a science experiment to wow the kids, this volcano is seriously awesome. One for mum or dad to help with.
Teach phonics with younger children using these adorable frogs.
Another cool learning visual for younger children to teach about the weather and water cycle.
Learning to tie shoelaces can be difficult, but making it fun is sure to help kids learn this tricky skill!
For a bit of simple physics learning, this is a fun experiment to try.
This sensory play activity is great for younger children using DUPLO people or for older kids to enjoy a new way of playing with their toys.
Work together to build a brick bridge and see if it holds up under different weights.
Teaching fractions just got a whole lot more fun with this visual learning idea.
A super simple way to practice memory skills with kids.
This one requires a little more preparation but is sure to be fun for young excavators.
Not so much a learning activity, however make your handsoap extra fun so kids look forward to keeping their hands clean and germ-free.
LEGO BOOKS WITH MORE FUN IDEAS
You may also like these fun ideas too:
- Classic board games to play with kids
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- Playdough recipes & play ideas
- Creative play recipes for home
- Mindfulness colouring pages to print
- Outdoor activities for your backyard
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- Creative play ideas for toddlers
- Sensory play for toddlers
- Screen-free fun for families
