We play this with tinker toys too. - Cody (25 Jan 2010)
I'd love to see the video for this. - Michelle (29 Jan 2012)
I did this activity last year for our Band council retreat and the kids LOVED it. I added a twist which takes some prep work.
I'm a dad of a 5 and 7 year old and we have tons of Legos at home. Since I had about 30 students going to our retreat, I turned this into a contest between 6 teams of 5 students. Each team had two Zip Lock bags of identical Lego pieces and they had to divide their team into 4 builders and a runner. We had two builders (Team A) from each team stay in one room, and the other two builders in another room (Team B.) Team A had 10 minutes to build something. The Runners stayed outside. When we were ready, the Runners had to go to Team A, look at it and run to Team B and instruct them how to make it without touching the lego pieces. The first Team to make an identical copy won. We did this a few times with different runners for each team and it was revealing to see how the teams adapted each time. Each team improved their time.
This takes a bit of pre-planning. I poured my son's lego pieces on the table and started sorting parts in pairs. Each bag had 30 pieces in it. - Mathew Schick (27 Jul 2012)
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We play this with tinker toys too.- Cody (25 Jan 2010)
I'd love to see the video for this.
- Michelle (29 Jan 2012)
I did this activity last year for our Band council retreat and the kids LOVED it. I added a twist which takes some prep work.
I'm a dad of a 5 and 7 year old and we have tons of Legos at home. Since I had about 30 students going to our retreat, I turned this into a contest between 6 teams of 5 students. Each team had two Zip Lock bags of identical Lego pieces and they had to divide their team into 4 builders and a runner. We had two builders (Team A) from each team stay in one room, and the other two builders in another room (Team B.) Team A had 10 minutes to build something. The Runners stayed outside. When we were ready, the Runners had to go to Team A, look at it and run to Team B and instruct them how to make it without touching the lego pieces. The first Team to make an identical copy won. We did this a few times with different runners for each team and it was revealing to see how the teams adapted each time. Each team improved their time.
This takes a bit of pre-planning. I poured my son's lego pieces on the table and started sorting parts in pairs. Each bag had 30 pieces in it.
- Mathew Schick (27 Jul 2012)
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