Trevor grew up playing Legos. More like stuck on them- for hours. Luckily my parents kept my old Legos just incase their grandkids would enjoy them. And it turns out Felix has the same love for them. During quarantine Felix would build with Legos and listen to audiobooks for hours, often protesting meals in favor of creating. This would usually lead to him bursting in the room an hour later exclaiming how starving he was in a panic. As Legos are his primary activity of choice, we used it to teach many things during our homeschool chapter. Making Lego letters that he could quickly (re)organize into words was one of his first introductions into spelling. We would make letters of  a word and then put them in a pile for him to organize by how the letters sounded. We also made models of our solar system by taping planets to the ceiling with clear plastic strings, made nature environments to talk about seasons, etc. 

And then there is the purely fun part- making Lego words with your kid. We have made collaborative Lego sculptures, vehicles, cities, secret spy headquarters hidden in the mountains, and hundreds of “sweet, sleek mech-tech-robot-spaceships”. The collaborative process is the most fun part. We mostly find a bunch of symmetrical pieces and then take turns adding them together, combining the small bits we build, trading pieces we built so the other can transform our idea, remixing each other’s remix, etc.  Collaborative art shakes up the process and gives you unexpected results. Felix has been raised with a collaborative life, and has become a great art making partner.