Minifigures playing the egg-and-spoon race game

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A pile of bricks with an egg on top of it and two minifigures

Egg-and-spoon race with LEGO® bricks

A set of LEGO® bricks set out as hurdles

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Jumping the hurdles

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Become a LEGO® stunt driver

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Let's go bowling with LEGO® bricks!

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An island map build with minifigure adventurers

Create your own adventure

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Fly solo around your home

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Build a Space Station together

Confused minifigures holding a couple of LEGO bricks

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Minifigures building things based on drawings

Ever decreasing pieces

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It's race time!

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Build your own LEGO® tower

Get ready for speed! Build your car, a racecourse and invite your friends and family to the big LEGO® race!

An assortment of LEGO® bricks (especially car parts like wheels, tires and axles!)

Make sure you have got the parts you might need: especially wheels, tires and axles.

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Grab some bricks

Keep it simple. Something small and light.

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Build a car

You can make them out of LEGO® bricks, paper or cardboard. Use the gates to mark out your racecourse, and make sure it’s got plenty of turns.

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Make some gates

Each person takes turns giving their cars a flick. Head through the gates and take it easy on those tight turns. The winner is the first person to flick their car through the last gate.

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Minifigures racing through the track in LEGO soapbox cars

Try adding some hazards, like rough ground made with sand or scattered LEGO® bricks. How about a narrow bridge or tunnel?

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Minifigures, LEGO soapbox cars, gates and a pile of bricks

Make it harder

You’re brave. You’re talented. You’re kind of a maverick. Who better to build a LEGO® plane and fly it solo all the way around your home?

Make sure you can hold the plane in your hand and swoosh it about.

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Build an awesome plane

Whoosh! Pick up your plane and take it soaring and looping the loop all around your home.

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Fly off on your adventure

Build a pit stop for food and fuel – plus anything else you might need on a long journey.

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Remember to stop somewhere for supplies

You’re an awesome stunt driver who laughs in the face of danger... it's time to show them what you can do!

A handful of LEGO® bricks (including wheels)

Some large pieces of cardboard

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Grab your bricks

First build the base of your car and attach the wheels.

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Build together your own stunt vehicle

You could build a circle by connecting LEGO pieces by just one stud, and then using SNOTs (studs-not-on-top bricks) to stand it upright.

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Build a spectacular hoop

Cardboard works great for this. Make sure it can carry the weight of your car.

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Make a ramp

Take turns aiming your car at the ramp and giving it a good push. Can you jump through the hoop? What other stunts can you think of?

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Lights, camera, action! 

Build your own unique space station module and then work with your fellow astronauts to make something bigger and better: a LEGO® space station for everybody.

A big pile of LEGO® Bricks each

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Think about all the different ways you could connect your space station modules. Clips, plates, pins or SNOTs (studs-not-on-top bricks)? Agree with each other whose module is going to connect and how.

Talk to your fellow astronauts

Each person takes five minutes to build their module.

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Build your space station modules

Work as a team to put the space station together.

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Astronauts, assemble!

Try to see whether you can think of more ways for the children to practice their motor skills using the LEGO® bricks.

Top Tip

Whether you’re a secret agent in spy training, or a sports star getting ready for the Olympic games, this activity is going to get your blood pumping and your heart racing! 

LOTS of square LEGO® bricks

Some long, thin LEGO® bricks

Stack the square LEGO bricks into even towers nice and high, before connecting them with the longer LEGO bricks. Do this until you have three or four or even MORE hurdles.

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Let's get building

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How high can you go?

Put up the hurdles and let the children move around and test whether they can jump over them.

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Let's jump!

In this activity, the more you build the harder it gets... So, every time you build something, you’re going to lose four bricks! 

Paper, something to draw with and scissors

An assortment of LEGO® bricks

Cut up a sheet of card into small rectangles. Then take 5 minutes to draw as many ideas as you can. When you’re done, turn the cards upside-down and make a pile with everyone’s ideas. You’ll need about ten cards for each team.

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Come up with some ideas of what to build

Make sure you choose a good range of pieces: bricks, plates, slopes and SNOTs (studs-not-on-top bricks).

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Get 20 bricks for each team

Pick somebody in your team to go first. They take an object card, making sure no-one else can see it. They’ve then got one minute to build the object with your team’s 20 bricks. The rest of the team has to guess what the object is.

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Minifigures with a turtle build based on a turtle drawing

Build your first object

The next person in each team then picks a card. They’ve got one minute to take apart the last object and build the new one. Except this time, they can only use 16 bricks. The rest of the team has to guess what the object is.

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Minifigures with a car build based on a car drawing

Pick another card

Keep going until you’re down to just four bricks –that makes five cards for each team. Did you manage to guess all your objects?

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Minifigures surrounded by builds based on drawings

Keep picking cards, taking off four bricks each time

If your family loves bowling, try and make a DIY bowling alley at home!  

LEGO® bricks or LEGO® DUPLO® bricks

A soft ball

Enough space to bowl

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Ask your child to make 6 identical bowling skittles

The skittles should be over 20cm tall and strong enough so that they don’t break

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How tall? 

Line the skittles up in a bowling formation and practice rolling a ball towards them.

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Time to practice!

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Find a spacious area to use

When building a LEGO® tower there are endless possibilities – you can a build a castle, a skyscraper, or just see how many bricks you can stack until your tower topples! 

A collection of LEGO® bricks

Paper and pens for drawing

Think about the design of your tower, will it be tall? Draw it out so you know what your LEGO® tower will look like.

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Sketch a design

You can use a LEGO® baseplate if you have one or create one from bricks.

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Build a base

Lay the basic foundation for your tower. The easiest shape is a simple square of four bricks – but a wider base might be more supportive.

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Create the foundations

Top tip: Remember, you don’t need to follow straight lines. Towers often build up to a point. At the top, you could stack your bricks into a triangle shape.

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Build your tower up

If you’re building a castle, you can add flags, turrets, dragons, princes or princesses. If you’re building a more modern design, you could add clocks, satellite dishes or an antenna. It’s up to you!

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Finishing touches!

Make your own spoon using LEGO® bricks and challenge your friends and family to test their building skills and balance!

A boiled egg or fake egg

Make sure everyone’s got some long bricks or plates, you’ll be needing them for the spoon handles. And ask a grown-up to boil the eggs before you race with them – we don’t want those eggs scrambled!

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Grab some bricks and eggs

If you can, use one long plate or brick. But if you haven’t got any pieces long enough for that, use overlapping plates instead. (And make sure you lock those pieces together tightly.)

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Two minifigures building the spoon handle

Make the spoon handle

Think about how the egg will stay on the spoon. Top tip: Try using big and overlapping pieces.

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Two minifigures building the bowl part at the end of the spoon

Make the end of the spoon

Don’t worry if you drop your egg, just stop, pick it up again, and keep going.

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Two minifigures carrying a LEGO spoon with an egg in it

Take your eggs outside and race

You and your friends are going on an adventure. Can you make a detailed LEGO® map to guide you through this strange, exciting place?

Where do you all want to go? What could it be that makes that place special?

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Adventurer minifigures looking at a LEGO map

Do some research

If you can, get different colors for different parts of the map. Like gray for rock and blue for water.

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Grab some bricks and a big plate

Use the big plate as the base for the map. Use piles of bricks to mark what goes where.

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Plan the map with your friends 

Decide who’s going to build what. Maybe each person works on a different part of the map. Or maybe one person could work on trees, one on hills etc.

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Get building!

Use special pieces to mark particularly interesting, mysterious or even dangerous areas of the map. Then use your map to play exploring games with your friends.

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Add some detail

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Let's move!

Active play is not only stimulating for the body, but it can be a big boost for the brain too. Time to get moving!