Quest #2.2 - Watercraft

Our second challenge for 2019: Watercraft. 

The dictionary says a watercraft is: a boat or other vessel that travels on the water. 

Ideas: Jet ski, pontoon, naval craft, speed boat, canoe.  If it travels on water, you can build it and submit it!

Please submit your photos to: 

legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com 

by Wednesday, February 27th, 2019.

Happy building!

Results Quest 1.2 - Snowflake

Results Quest #1.2 - Snowflake

". . . Silent, and soft, and slow 

        Descends the snow."

      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great builds kids! Here they are in all their winter wonder:

Ernest, Minnesota

Anonymous, Minnesota

Norah, Minnesota, Age 8

Layne, Minnesota, Age 10

Snow-flakes

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Out of the bosom of the Air, 

      Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, 

Over the woodlands brown and bare, 

      Over the harvest-fields forsaken, 

            Silent, and soft, and slow 

            Descends the snow. 

Even as our cloudy fancies take 

      Suddenly shape in some divine expression, 

Even as the troubled heart doth make 

      In the white countenance confession, 

            The troubled sky reveals 

            The grief it feels. 

This is the poem of the air, 

      Slowly in silent syllables recorded; 

This is the secret of despair, 

      Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded, 

            Now whispered and revealed 

            To wood and field. 

Quest #1.2 - A Snowflake

Welcome or welcome back! 

This month's Lego challenge for homeschoolers is: Snowflake

To review, your snowflake is your own design. You may build it out of Lego or Duplo, any color or multiple colors,  any size. You get to interpret this project however you like.

When you're done, snap a close-up photo and submit your photos to: 

legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com 

Submissions are due by Wednesday, January 23th, 2019.  Within a week (hopefully) we will post all the submissions to the blog here.  You're welcome to join our Facebook group for notifications: Lego Quest For Homeschoolers.

Happy building!

2019 Lego Quest!

Welcome to a new year of Lego Quest for Homeschoolers! Need a refresher or maybe you're new to us, click HERE to see our original welcome post to find out more about what happens around here. Feel free to ask questions.
Happy building!!

Results Quest 4.1 - Buoyancy

So did your Lego builds float or sink?  Here are the results of our buoyancy quest:

                                                      Eden, age 7, MN

                                                     Liam, age 5, MN

                                                    Layne, age 8, MN

                                                        Norah, age 6, MN

                                                       Haydn, age 13, MN

                                                    Ethan, age 11, MN

A special thanks to my son Ethan who helped post the photos to the blog this month!

Quest #4.1 - Buoyancy

Welcome back! I'm picking a quest from the original Lego Quest this month. 
This month's Lego challenge is: Bouyancy!

"Can you create a marine vessel out of LEGO that floats?

You may need to experiment with several designs until you create one that works the way you want it to.

I would like your photo submission to show your creation in water, either floating, or perhaps in its sunken state, whichever you choose.

If you would like to take this a step further, you can place heavier objects like marbles or coins in your boat to see how many it can hold before it sinks. I'd love to hear all the details and so would everyone else!

Here is some great information about buoyancy to get you started.

Here you can see how other kids from around the world responded to this challenge."

Please submit your photos to: 

legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com 

by Friday, January 20th, 2017 (Happy New Year!).

Happy building!

Results: Quest #3.1 - Nativity

We are just days away from celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus! The Lego nativities turned out very sweet! Well done builders!   Merry Christmas from our home to yours.

Bella and Abby, age 10 and 8, Minnesota

Layne, age 8, Minnesota

(The white Lego guys on horses are angels guarding the baby king 

and the bowing storm troopers are sheep)