Lego

It’s hard for me to believe that we haven’t had an entry on Lego yet.  So, this Friday we will flash forward to a more recent experience…building the Winnie the Pooh clubhouse tree out of Lego blocks.  

Mikey has loved building with Lego blocks for a long time! He started with the larger blocks meant for little kids. Over the years, he has moved on to the bigger sets. He can’t do a set this big on his own, but he enjoys working with me or with Will on these big sets. He still does smaller sets on his own often and I have a shelf in the basement of smaller sets he has already done but might want to do again sometime…they’re so pricey, it’s worth trying to get more than one experience out of each set.

Each Lego set comes with a step-by-step instruction book. These don’t contain words, just numbers and pictures. The booklet shows how many of each piece you need for each step and then pictures how you should add each piece to the build. Even if your child does not read or speak, they may be able to process how to build these Lego sets…give it a try. If you don’t try, you’ll never know.