LEGO ABCs: G is for Green

The weeks are flying by and I am really enjoying this series, but it's not easy coming up with something for each letter. Both my co-host Chareen and I felt pretty stumped with this week's letter G. All my kids and I could come up with for G was green, and as for Chareen she finally settled on Geography. Also, that's why this post was up late! I was still building things this morning, and now it's 2pm and I'm finally writing the post! It's not easy, but it's fun and I love the challenge. 

I am loving reading everyone's posts each week! Here are some features from last week's letter F:

• Animal Footprint Casts from Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses
• Composer ABC's: Faure from A Home: Where Life Happens
• Homeschooling Tips A-Z: Field Trips from Homeschooling Highway

There were so many great ones to read! Go read them if you get a chance, so many fun things to learn.

 

Building with the green LEGO's for this week turned out to be the funnest thing, and really pretty easy. I just pulled out our green bin and we each built something green or that had a green theme. I also started thinking of all kinds of other things that started with g that I wanted to share, so we also have a garden, a gnome, gifts, gears and gravity.

 

Let's start with Alex's creation, a green fidget spinner. He did this challenge in less than 10 minutes! I was amazed. It was a perfectly working fidget spinner (unfortunately I didn't get a video of this one). He loves fidget toys, so this was definitely his style right now.

Alex's green LEGO fidget spinner

  

The next green build is one that I did, a Gravity Roller. I saw the idea first at one of my favorite LEGO and fun activity blogs Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls. It really was a pretty simple and quick build. This is all it took for one of the gravity rollers.

 

Once it's together you start it rolling at one end of the table and it will hopefully keep rolling using gravity and the weight in the middle. I had to play around with weight and it worked best kinda going down a small slope.

 

Here is a very short video of this gravity roller in action. There is also a video on the Frugal Fun page (it's way better than mine!)

G is for Garden and Gnome

The next build is a Garden and Gnome. The garden is our creation and the gnome is from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls also.

 

 The gnome is really pretty cute. I would have liked to make more, but I ran out of time.

 

I thought it'd be fun to make it like a children's garden with some fun characters like Mater here.

 

G is for Gears

The last build for green is from a Klutz book Alex got a few months ago from Scholastic called Gear Bots. These are fun builds that have action and movement.

We chose to do the green lizard to go along with our green theme. All the pieces and the paper elements are included in this kit, so it made for a quick and easy build. I like step by step directions!

 

The finished lizard! Now to figure out how to make it work. The kids get to figure that one out, although this one's pretty easy to figure out. Just push it!

 The feet almost get in the way of the movement, but if you push down hard enough it goes pretty well.

Here's a little video of it in action: (Aric didn't want his hands in the video so he made a clever pushing tool out of white LEGO's)

G is for Gifts

I love to give LEGO's for gifts. There are also some great ideas for making homemade gifts out of LEGO's with a quick search on Pinterest, or come up with your own! 

We have a few birthday's coming up so we currently have a few gifts waiting to be given to the recipients. The first is for Alex's best friend. He really wanted to get her a Minecraft set since that is one of their favorite things to do together (playing Minecraft on the xbox or computer). 

 

The next gift is for April who loves the show Friends. Her birthday is in August, but I saw it on sale on Amazon so I snatched it up now. I'm pretty excited to give it to her.

That's about it for the letter G! Thanks for reading/looking at all of our builds this week.

Now it's your turn to share! Please join co-host Chareen and me as we blog through the alphabet and link-up below:

• Desiree @ Our Homeschool Notebook: All of my current ABC posts

• Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses: G is for Geography 

    

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