Tag: legos

  • Ezra and Nehemiah told in LEGOs

    Ezra and Nehemiah told in LEGOs

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    Sometimes when we’re doing our Sunday School lessons at home, I like to be silly.  This particular time I decided to tell the entire story of Ezra and Nehemiah in Legos. Originally when I wrote this I couldn’t remember the name working with Nehemiah, so as I wrote this homeschool history lesson post I wrote “someone else,”…

  • Battle of Jericho

    Battle of Jericho

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    I made the mistake of telling my kids that in a few days, we’d be building the city of Jericho as part of our homeschool history lessons and then destroying it (I’d never do this as a Sunday School lesson because too much chaos for our class of 30). As you can imagine, that immediately led to…

  • Lego organization

    Lego organization

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    My kids have all been working very hard at keeping their rooms clean and their beds made. Each week if they’ve done that every day they get $2, one for the bed and one for the room. They’ve been saving for a month, and they proudly went out and bought their first Lego sets (sadly…

  • Encouraging Imagination and Pretend

    Encouraging Imagination and Pretend

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    I loved making up games growing up. Lots of free time was great for encouraging imagination and pretend. As kids in California, my best friends and I would play BFG:ButterFly Girls. We would run all over our backyards and the nearby playground pretending we had wings when we were up in the sky and when…