Lego Creations

Have you heard about the latest Lego contest? Well from what Jr. tells me you have a 1 in 5 chance of winning a $100 gift card for Lego’s, if you submit a Lego creation.

This all started the day before yesterday when the mail arrived and the latest “Brick Master” magazine from Lego arrived. Jr. read it cover to cover in one sitting, like always, and then he announced that he was going to create something for the contest. Off to his room he went, some time later, when it was time for bed, he showed me what he had created. Impressive, it was actually two creations. I figured it was the end of it. We would take some photos and he would send them off.

The next morning he said that he had decided that he needed to create something bigger and better. So he worked hard at his school work (we have already started the new school year, more some other time), finished and once again headed to his room. Only this time he worked for a very long time, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he work at least 3 hours on this new creation. Incredible detail as you can see by the photos. We took some photos, and then we drove into town to print them out this afternoon. Tomorrow after his school work is finished he is planning on doing the writing portion of the contest, apparently he has to submit a 200 word essay on his creation.

He loves to work with his Lego, I must say that it is a challenge for me to sit down with him and create something; I do try from time to time, it really is quality time. I remember once I created an entire arctic mobile, it was kind of like an arctic RV, even had a bathroom. The entire thing was white, except for the tires of course. I was very impressed with my own creation, the next day he had “modified” it. I had some Lego’s as a kid - but I always came up short on the roof pieces! I know Jr. has thousands of pieces, not to long ago we spent most of the day sorting them into different boxes, hoping that it would result in making it easier to find specific pieces. This we learned from his involvement in Lego League this past spring.

I will most likely post his essay here too.