Let’s Get Crazy With Lego – Minifigures
We all grew up with the traditional legos that came with pretty standard Lego figures that didn’t vary much set to set. However, for our kids, a whole new realm of Lego has come to exist with an almost endless supply of Lego minifigures. My kids have at least 100 between them that range from characters related to their favorite movies and TV shows like Star Wars, Ninjago, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Harry Potter to a wide variety of female minifigures and pets from the Lego Friends sets.
A favorite, and really easy activity for my kids, has been using these make your own minifigure printables from homegrown learners.com. It was originally just a single printable, but they recently added some specific ones for boys and girls to give them ideas for figures they can create. Since I was doing these with both my son and daughter, we decided to try the boy and girl ones this time around.
They both jumped right in and started designing their own minifigures with serious and silent concentration. I don’t think my house has been this quiet since, well, forever. It was blissful.
My son was inspired by his recent viewing of the Lego Movie as he worked on his minifigure and so decided to disregard the suggestions (Hey, whatever works). I would say this kept him busy for a good thirty minutes or more just working on the one design.