LEGO ABCs: F is for Farm

Time for week 6 of blogging through the alphabet! This week is the letter F, and we'll be talking about all things relating to the letter F. Co-host Chareen is giving us all kinds of great homeschooling advice in her ABC series, and this week is For the Children's Sake. I will be talking about a different kind of LEGO farm, and I'm sure we'll have some other great topics with other's linking up. Some features from last week's Letter E link up:

• Homeschooling Tips from Ellen @ Homeschooling Highway: E is for Emergency
• American Civil War lessons from Kristen @ A Mom's Quest to Teach: E is for Elmira Prison
• Composers from Lori @ At Home: Where Life Happens: E is for Elgar
• All about different breeds of rabbits with At Home Pets: Discovering the "E" Rabbits of the World
• A tour of Canada from Annette @ A Net in Time: E is for Edgewalk

Join us this week for the Letter F!

LEGO Minecraft set: The Wool Farm

This week's build did not go as planned. When we decided on building a farm we didn't realize how hard that would really be, and we didn't give nearly enough time to allow for that to happen. We wanted to build a realistic looking farm with a barn, a chicken coop, a farmhouse, and maybe even a pond. That was way too ambitious for us. We started with the chicken coop, and that was okay, but it took us nearly a whole afternoon to get just that together. So, with time running out I had to figure out a quicker farm to build. We needed something with all the pieces readily available, and not to difficult. I did some searching on the internet to see if I could find some simpler directions for a build, and I came across this Minecraft LEGO Wool Farm set. I decided that would be fun to build with Alex while he builds on his new Minecraft set that he got recently. We had a lot of fun building Minecraft together, and he loved that I was building Minecraft, of all things, with him. (He is kinda crazy about Minecraft right now)

Alex built his new set while I built The Wool Farm.

It's always exciting opening a new box of LEGO's. 

I built the sheep and the sheep shearer first. This is definitely a different kind of farm than I had in mind, but still fun!

For some reason I didn't get a picture of any of the building process or our spread on the table, but after about an hour of building we were done! He finished his castle, and I finished The Wool Farm. 

Alex really liked the stepping stones in the water.

After I finished I realized that we also had a Minecraft Bee farm too. Alex built this one a few months ago, and we still had it together on the shelf so I'm adding it to our "Farm." The bees are fun.

That bee farmer is even dressed like a bee. Buzz! Buzz!

Now I have my very own Minecraft set. Not what I expected for the outcome of the build this week, but it still turned out to be a great bonding time building with one of my boys and that's all that matters!

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: Page with list of all current ABC posts

• Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses: For the Children's Sake

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