LEGO ABCs: H is for Harry Potter

It's time for the Letter H this week! I'm excited to share what we built this week, but first lets talk about last week's posts. If you haven't yet, you should visit the link-up to see all of the Letter G posts from last week, they are all good reads. I keep saying it every week, but I'm learning a lot! I'm learning more about the American civil war, composers, homeschooling tips and advice, and so much more. Here are a few of the posts just to give a glimpse.

Featured posts from last week's Letter G:

• Geography from Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses
• Homeschool Tips - Leter G from Ellen @ Homeschooling Highway
• Going to the movies (American Civil War movies) from Kristen @ A Mom's Quest to Teach

This week I chose for the Letter H LEGO build, Harry Potter. This was an easy decision as we have many Harry fans in this house, and many old sets to choose from. We also have so many minifig characters. I just love minifigs and their personalities, and the ones from HP are just so fun.

Just a note: I know there are some who do not like the Harry Potter books or anything to do with magic, and I completely understand that. And I understand if you choose not to read this post. Please come back next week though!

To kick off our Harry Potter LEGO week we pulled out one of our old LEGO games, Harry Potter Hogwarts. It's one we've had for years. I think April got it for a Christmas or birthday present probably about a decade ago. Surprisingly we haven't played it for many years. It was like a new game to us, and it was pretty fun. It took some time to prepare though as there were several missing pieces. Thankfully they were pieces that I was able to salvage from our LEGO bins. Once it was together we played! It was just me and the 2 younger boys, but lots of laughter and silliness ensued as with any game.

Harry Potter game collage

There were a lot of unique little game pieces, and I just loved these little mini-minifigures. I think that's what they're called? They're not a normal size minifgure. Just tiny little things.

Building the game was fun, but I also wanted to pull out one of our old Harry Potter sets and rebuild it. I decided on Hagrid's Hut: Buckbeak's Rescue since most of the pieces were already mostly in a bin. I only had to chase after a few lost pieces. Thankfully I found them all, even the lost minifigs.

I dug out the instructions from our bin of old instruction manuals

I pretty rebuilt this on my own. I kept asking the boys if they wanted to build it, but they were just not interested. Although they enjoyed watching me build it. And, Aric (whose set this was) was helpful when I had questions about where pieces might be. Sometimes I enjoy the solitude of just building on my own. I can turn on some of my own YouTube, or listen to books. It's a great way to have some time to myself.

One night I built by myself in the LEGO room (aka the boys' room), and the next night I brought it out to the living room and built while we watch a Star Wars together.

The end result! I love all the details. Especially the pumpkin patch.

Hagrid's Hut: Buckbeak's Rescue

The minifigs...

Harry, Ron, and Hermione

Hagrid and Buckbeak

The executioner and the Minister of Magic

The inside of the hut

The details inside the hut are fun. There's a spider, a desk, a treasure chest (which has a chocolate frog I believe), and window and a door.

On the other side there's all kinds of tools hanging up on the ceiling, a large comfy chair to sit in, and a table with a tea kettle.

But my most favorite detail in this set is the light up fireplace with Hagrid's dragon egg by it. To light up the fireplace a button up top has to be pushed. It's pretty cool to look at, especially when it's darker.

One last thing to share for this week is our Wii time. I pulled out an old Harry Potter LEGO game for our Wii. I even had to dust off the Wii! It hasn't been used for a while because we have newer game consoles. I had fun playing this with Alex (age 10). He was thrilled that I wanted to play with him. Little does he know how much I used to play my old Nintendo when I was his age! 

Wii Harry Potter game Years 5-7

We had fun watching the characters and seeing where the game took us. We were also surprised at how the graphics look to us now compared to when we first got it. These aren't as crisp as some of the games we play now! And we used to think this was really good.

Sometimes I like to put one of these YouTube videos on in the background while I'm doing stuff. It's fun to watch these huge sets being built. They are speed builds, and they are set to fun music. This is a set that we can only dream about getting, the Hogwart's castle.

That's about it for the letter H! 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: H is for Homeschool Bloggers 

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