LEGO ABCs: J is for Jurassic

Some weeks just don't go as planned. I had hoped to have this post all written up before our trip, but alas here I am writing this early in the morning at Great Wolf Lodge. I even brought the LEGOs for this week here to finish building them, which was totally fun, by the way. 

Some featured posts from last wee's letter I link-up:

• Insects at the Beach from A Net in Time
• Ives ~ Composer ABCs from At Home: Where Life Happens
• Homeschooling Tips from A to Z from Homeschooling Highway
• Last week's Link-up: Letter I, stop by if you missed these ones!

Building this week's set at the Lodge was fun!

This week I am sharing a set from Jurassic World, Baryonyx Face-Off: The Treasure Hunt. It's a new one for us, although we have a few others that I'd like to rebuild, but I have to find all the pieces. 

The Jeep is coming along nicely! Such fun details.

We started building this at home, but quickly ran out of time so we packed it up and took it to the Lodge to build for some downtime. Aric started the set by building the Jeep, and then I finished the rest.

The Baryonyx dinosaur and jungle scene with treasure

A close up of the treasure. It's hidden kinda behind and under the green stuff. Just push the green LEGO button and the greenery opens up.

The Jeep and Trailer

The details inside the trailer. There's a bed, and a desk with a computer.

I really love the Jurassic Jeep

The minifigs that come in the set

Other Letter J builds include these characters. I built these, just for fun. Alex has loved playing with them.

From the classic transparent blocks set.

Building them

I tried to catch the light in transparent blocks in the sunshine. 

These will be fun to display

This is the set they came from:

J is for Jigsaw

One last thing for J. Jigsaw puzzles. There are some fun LEGO puzzles out there to do. This one with all the yellow LEGO heads was given to me for my birthday last November. My friend laughed a very evil laugh as she gave it to me because she thought it looked hard. It was! That puzzle took me months. Every piece had to be fully scrutinized before placed. So much yellow!

Fast forward to May...I got her a LEGO puzzle for payback. Turns out hers was not as hard. She did it in a few days. I kinda knew it wouldn't be as hard. This one has way more variations. But, it was still fun to give her a LEGO puzzle. She enjoyed it and then we traded. Now I'm doing hers and she is trying out the yellow heads. I will also note that she came over a few times and helped me with that yellow one when I was working on it, so she knew how absolutely difficult it was. Good times! Doing a puzzle with a friend is also a blast too.

My friend's puzzle that I just started working on.

Still a long way to go!

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

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

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