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)

Quest #3.1 - Nativity

December is here and with that comes our next Lego Quest!

Quest #3.1: Build a nativity
You could include any of the following:
Stable, Mary & Joseph, Baby Jesus, shepherds, star, wisemen, animals, etc.

I don't have any examples since once again I'm going off the official "Lego Quest for Homeschoolers" grid.

Pinterest or Google Images have lots of examples if your kids need some inspiration.

Please submit your photos to: 

legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com 

by Friday, December 16th, 2016.

Happy building!

P.S. I realize this is could be a bit of a challenge so if anyone wants to submit a Lego ornament as an alternate challenge, I'll post those as well!

Results Quest #2.1: Lego Gun

I bring you the results for our Lego gun quest:

Norah, Age 5, MN

Haydn, Age 13, MN

Layne, Age 8, MN

Ethan, Age 10, MN

Nice work Lego builders!

Quest #2.1 - Lego Gun

We're on to Challenge #2.1

My boys have been building Lego guns like crazy around here. They're on the coffee table, kitchen table, in the bathroom, everywhere. 

So with that said, our challenge this month is to build a gun.

We're going off the "official" Lego Quest for Homeschooler's grid with this challenge so I don't have any examples to show you, I'm sure you'll do fine anyway!

As a reminder, "this can be simple or extremely complex, it's up to you. The only real rule is that it has to be custom built. Your own creation, not a pre-designed one."

Please submit your photos to: 

legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com 

by Friday, November 18th, 2016.

Results Quest 1.1 - Car

Well done builders! Take a look at your great work:

"Food truck"
Dieter, age 6, Minnesota 

Sage, Age 5

Dayton, age 7

Maleah, age 3

Horse Ice Cream Truck

Norah, 5, Minnesota

Police Security Van

Layne, 8, Minnesota

Haydn, 13, Minnesota

Quest # 1.1 - Car

We're going to start things off nice and easy with a repeat challenge from years past.

"Get your LEGO out, it's time for LEGO Quest Challenge #1.1

This can be simple or extremely complex, it's up to you. The only real rule is that it has to be custom built. Your own creation, not a pre-designed one."

If your kids need a jump-start for ideas, see here!

Please submit your photos to: 

legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com 

by Friday, October 21st, 2016.

We're back in action!

Hey! We took a break for a year but we're back in action and ready for a new year (2016-17) of Lego build challenges!

This little blog club is for homeschoolers to show off some of their awesome building skills.  See this post for our original "welcome" info.

Welcome old and new builders!

Results #14 - Hearts

The long awaited results for the heart quest are in. My apologies to those who submitted these photos so long ago.  You did a terrific job with you're builds!

The Battle for the Planet Heartia

Micah, Age 13, WI

Heart Farm

Isaiah, Age 10, WI

Building from the "Heart"

Caeden, Age 10, WI

Quest #14 - Heart or Hearts

Hey builders, this month you get to build a heart or a structure made of hearts!

You could stack your hearts into a tower, line them up, build a bridge with them, wear them, etc. There are some ideas here at Little Bins for Little Hands or a quick search on Pinterest yields lots of results.

Please submit your photos to: legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com by Friday, February 20th, 2015.

" Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
I Corinthians 13:4-7

Results #13 - 2 Cups of Random Bricks

Drum roll please . . . and the results of the 2-Cups of Random Bricks are:


Connor, age 9, MN

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Joseph, age 6, MN

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Layne, age 6, MN

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Abigail, MN

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Haydn, age 11, MN

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Quest #13 - 2 Cups of Random Bricks

"Take a measuring cup and fill it with 2 cups of random LEGO bricks. Please, no choosing pieces, just scoop them out. What you get, is what you get.

Create anything you like out of this amount of bricks. The idea is, everyone will have the same volume of pieces to work with.

Can you create a design that is representational? Can you make it look like something?

With this random selection of bricks, try to create something. Do it a few times. Choose your favourite construction.

Did the design come to you before you started building or did the object appeared before your eyes as you were working?

Here you can see what other kids from around the world made for this challenge." Please submit your photos to: legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com by Friday, January 23rd, 2014.

Results #12 - A Christmas Scene

Here are the results from our December Quest, A Christmas Scene!

Averie, MN
Getting ready for Christmas

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Ethan, age 8, MN
Santa and a Candy Cane

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Niall, MN
Stable and a snake on a cow with baby Jesus

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Haydn, age 11, MN
Christmas lights and a wreath on an airplane

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Caeden, age 10, WI
The 4th Annual Christmas Relay Race

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Isaiah, age 10, WI
A Star Wars/Super Heroes Christmas choir

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Micah, age 13, WI
Christmas Morning at the Star Wars house.

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Layne, age 6, MN
Christmas ornaments

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Quest #12 - A Christmas Scene

Design a Christmas scene.

You may build a house decorated for the holiday, a wreath on a door, an evergreen tree, an airplane hanger with some special Christmas flare (for all you plane/rocket/space ship lovers - my kids included), a present, a part of the Christmas nativity, it's your build and your imagination!

I don't have any examples to show you from the original Lego Quest but if you need some inspiration here are a few and there are lots more on Pinterest or Google.

How to build a Christmas Tree:  http://www.chrismcveigh.com/cm/christmas_tree_part_list.html

How to build a gingerbread house: http://www.powerpig.ca/lego_ornament_guides_2013/gingerbread_house_2.0.pdf

How to build a creche:
 https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/l.dorst/lego/nativity.html

Please submit your photos to: legoquestforhomeschoolers@gmail.com by Friday, December 19th, 2014.

Merry Christmas!

Quest #11 - Results A Loved Book

I bring you our submission to this month's quest, A Loved Book.

Haydn, age 11, MN
The Hobbiton based on the books The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.