I expect you’ve got a LEGO lover or two in your house? LEGO is such a wonderful resource to spark creativity, imaginative play and fun! Today I’m sharing some exciting Family Fun Minute To Win It LEGO Games and the chance to win an awesome new book 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks.
These minute to win it games are great fun for all ages making them perfect for birthdays, Christmas, New Year’s Eve or any family gathering.
These Family Fun Minute To Win It LEGO Games are perfect for family games nights and kids play dates and are easy to set up using LEGO bricks you’ve probably got already. These LEGO games come from a fun new book 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks and we’ve adapted them with a fixed timed challenge to make them family fun “Minute to Win it” games. I’m super excited to say that we have a copy of this book to giveaway to a lucky reader too!
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All About 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks
New on the shelves this Autumn, 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks is a must have for LEGO fans young and old! The book is bursting with 365 activities to get kids using their LEGO bricks in creative, new and exciting ways every day of the year!
The fun activities range from games like the ones I’m sharing with you below, to challenges, to imaginative play and build ideas. Each activity is clearly described and supported with bright and colourful photographs.
What I really liked about the book was that it fired up my kids enthusiasm for LEGO again and got them excited to try new things.
Most of the activities don’t need a huge amount of bricks or take a long time to complete. We didn’t have all the brick types used in all of the builds but that really didn’t matter because this book is all about getting creative with the bricks you have got and it even has advice on how to simplify or adapt ideas if you don’t have the exact bricks.
It’s a book that steps away from the idea of buying a LEGO kit to make just one thing and instead encourages readers to branch out, experiment and get creative!
365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks even comes with it’s own activity selector and timer built into the cover. My boys liked letting the book choose which activity to try next and then they used the timer to race against the clock to complete the challenge in a given time. The timer also lets you time your own builds which is great fun for trying to beat your own speeds or for competing against a friend.
So whether you fancy our version of Minute To Win It LEGO Games like the ones below, building your own pet, crafting a bedroom door sign, creating an optical illusion or masterminding your own LEGO movie, this book has something for everyone!
The lovely team at Dorling Kindersley are letting me share with you 3 family fun LEGO challenges from the book below, so you can get a real taste for what it’s like and start enjoying the fun ideas today!
I’m delighted to say that DK are also giving away a copy of 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks to one lucky reader. To be in with a chance of winning scroll on down to the bottom of this post to enter. (UK only)
Can’t wait to get your hands on your own copy? UK friends can buy it here and US friends can get theirs here. Enjoy!
Play Family Fun Minute To Win It LEGO® Games Today
#1 Minute To Win It LEGO® Game – SORT AT SPEED
This is a great game for all ages and really easy to set up and play.
- Every player has a bowl of random LEGO bricks and takes it in turn to choose a way to sort them in a minute. The first player to sort all their bricks is the winner!
- We sorted our bricks by size.
- Then we sorted our bricks by colour.
- Players can choose any way to sort them they like, maybe colour, shape, brick type, number of studs on the top, number of holes on the bottom?
#2 Minute To Win It LEGO® Game – CHOPSTICK CHALLENGE
This was one of our favourite activities from the book and loads of fun for a family games night.
- Start the game by making a pair of LEGO chopsticks from long thin plates and smooth the studs off with tiles.
- Then each player has a minute to pick up as many LEGO pieces from a random pile and move them to a new pile.
- This sounds easier than it is! But those LEGO chopsticks are smooth and slippery and some LEGO pieces are tiny or round!
- We played this game loads and ended up adding an extra layer of difficulty by calling out a colour that the player had to pick up next!
#3 Minute To Win It LEGO® Game – MAKE A TOWER WITH JUST ONE BRICK
- For this fun game you have one minute to build the highest LEGO tower you can.
- Sounds easy? Don’t be fooled!
- This is no ordinary tower building…for this game you are only allowed to touch one brick at a time!
- So no holding your tower while you place your next brick on! Tricky!
Win Your Own Copy Of 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks
I hope you enjoy these Family Fun LEGO® games as much as we have, and I want to say a huge thank you to DK for letting me share them with you.
Don’t forget to enter the giveaway below to be in with a chance of winning your own copy of 365 Things To Do With LEGO® Bricks. Good luck!
Win awesome new book 365 Things To Do With LEGO Bricks
LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2016 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.
Manufactured by Dorling Kindersley under the license from the LEGO Group.
(This is a sponsored post and I received a copy of 365 Things To Do with LEGO® Bricks free of charge for the purpose of this review.)
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Jess Powell says
November 27, 2016 at 11:02 pmWe love building cars and rockets with Lego 🙂
Julie Scattergood says
November 27, 2016 at 10:58 pmMy son enjoys building cars and dinosaurs with his bricks
Tammy Neal says
November 27, 2016 at 9:09 pmBuildings x
Louise Fairweather says
November 27, 2016 at 8:54 pmMiddle man is currently obsessed with nexo knights
Hayley Todd says
November 27, 2016 at 8:22 pmMy daughter loves building houses and fairy castles.
Karl Borowy says
November 27, 2016 at 8:12 pmspace rockets
Libby Noack says
November 27, 2016 at 6:33 pmA Village and Tunnels for my sons Train Set to go through : )
Stacey Leigh says
November 27, 2016 at 4:54 pmme and my son like building houses 🙂 that’s my fave but he also likes to build robots x
Jo Blackhurst says
November 27, 2016 at 4:16 pmMy son loves building a range of things with his lego including buildings, vehicles, robots etc.
Emma says
November 27, 2016 at 3:37 pmLots of things but mostly castles
Clare Tate says
November 27, 2016 at 2:48 pmmy son loves playing with lego. he loves building things for his batman figure like prisons, bat bikes , space ships and more
Rebecca roberts says
November 27, 2016 at 12:44 pmBuilding cars and houses
angela edmonds says
November 27, 2016 at 10:45 amvehicles mainly x
Anna Cheetham says
November 27, 2016 at 10:06 amSpaceships and Star Wars related models here
andrea e. says
November 27, 2016 at 6:29 ammy son loves building cars, airplanes, and fire station 🙂
Richard Tyler says
November 27, 2016 at 4:11 amHouses, Cars, Ships!
leanne perrett says
November 26, 2016 at 10:33 pmmy boys love building all sorts with lego they create dinosaurs and space rockets among other things
Rachel King says
November 26, 2016 at 10:15 pmMy son like building most things in lego, especially cars and helicopters
Mel Turner says
November 26, 2016 at 9:22 pmWe like to build a garage and park cars inside
Sarah Robinson says
November 26, 2016 at 8:48 pmWe love to build houses and space rockets.
James McLaughlin says
November 26, 2016 at 8:46 pmTowers, Houses or our new favourite of mine and my daughter. The Pirate Ships
Diana says
November 26, 2016 at 8:32 pmWe love building houses and cars 🙂
tina Glover says
November 26, 2016 at 7:30 pmWe all enjoy lego in our house 🙂 but our daughter plays with it all the time! She loves building houses and schools most but has built ships,hairsalons and loads of other things. Looks like a fab book thanks for the chance to win x
Beryl drake says
November 26, 2016 at 7:23 pmThey enjoy building space related models the best
Sarah Wilson says
November 25, 2016 at 10:50 pmWe love building castles!
katy bulcock says
November 25, 2016 at 9:23 pmmy son loves building his lego train set 🙂
Lisa Wilkinson says
November 25, 2016 at 9:09 pmWe build houses and shops and cafes
Lynsey Buchanan says
November 25, 2016 at 4:39 pmhouses and animals
michelle o'neill says
November 24, 2016 at 7:48 pmmy gradaughter loves to build houses x
Paula Cheadle says
November 23, 2016 at 11:18 pmI like to build houses, but son is making the fire engine station at the moment with my hubby
Emily Hutchinson says
November 23, 2016 at 11:20 amcities, big ones!
Rebecca Smith says
November 23, 2016 at 11:02 amSpaceships, houses, castles -anything and everything
C Parkin says
November 20, 2016 at 6:46 pmCastles
Ella L says
November 20, 2016 at 11:01 amMy Grandson and I like to build cars and a garage to park them in
Jessica M says
November 19, 2016 at 1:54 pmWe love building animals with our Legos.
Kat Allinson says
November 18, 2016 at 1:49 pmMy youngest daughter loves building towers, she’s only 2 though, my eldest daughter likes building castles, houses, towns and cars
Nannette says
November 18, 2016 at 12:41 pmI love to make Lego marble mazes.
Sarah Lambert says
November 18, 2016 at 11:15 amMy son loves to build buildings he makes all sorts 🙂
Rachel Ray says
November 15, 2016 at 10:16 pmMy two build all sorts of things, hotels, houses, trains, space ships,
Louise Meyers says
November 12, 2016 at 3:25 pmMy nephew is obsessed with Legos and creates his own projects all the time! All of his free tiem is Legos!
Vicky Lewis says
November 11, 2016 at 10:25 pmI like building hotels! I make all the individual bedrooms with ensuites, and a dining room and kitchen. And of course a pool with a waterslide and palm trees they’re always pretty tropical hotels! lol. The kids mostly make ‘rocket-car-boats’ or ask me to set up a basic house with them.
Jasmine Johns says
November 9, 2016 at 11:20 pmI use to love building houses when i was younger, my son loves building cars and lairs for his Lego people. x
Jo Carroll says
November 9, 2016 at 8:59 pmI always say the the thing about Lego is that the possibilities for creating things is limitless…strange then ho wmy little boy seems intent on just building garages for his cars 😉
Beky Austerberry says
November 9, 2016 at 8:55 pmWe like to build space ships or houses
Carolsue says
November 9, 2016 at 6:55 amMy son likes building Star Wars stuff with his legos
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Solange says
November 9, 2016 at 2:14 amSpaceships and castles
Lynn Heath says
November 8, 2016 at 7:47 pmMy son spends hours building cars and planes!
Debbie Smith says
November 8, 2016 at 4:17 pmforts and castles xx fab giveaway thankyou
Helen tovell says
November 8, 2016 at 4:16 pmOur daughter builds wheelchairs for her polly pocket dolls
Sarah Lee says
November 8, 2016 at 2:26 pmMy son likes to build bridges for his trains and garages for his cars
Thomas buchanan says
November 8, 2016 at 12:50 pmPrincess castles are my daughters favorite
James Harris says
November 8, 2016 at 12:23 pmMy son enjoys building strange vehicles with different size wheels and odd attachments.
Pauline says
November 8, 2016 at 11:56 amBRIDGES
Emil says
November 8, 2016 at 10:46 amAwesome games! LEGO is such a fantastic toy – Thanks!
Clair Dukes says
November 8, 2016 at 10:43 amLittle vehicles and spaceships.
Hayleyw1 says
November 8, 2016 at 10:29 amhouses
sharon stanley says
November 8, 2016 at 10:26 amMine liked making little cities and pretending the own it. They also love creating creatures
Rebecca Morton says
November 8, 2016 at 10:09 amMy Youngest Nephew Likes Building Spaceships With His Lego
Kellie Steed says
November 7, 2016 at 11:14 pmMy little one is still quite young but has already developed a love of Lego, mainly the mini figures, but with blocks he likes to build up towers as high as possible. He’s not quite 3 yet and has asked for more for Christmas so I think this will develop over the coming year!
laura pyper says
November 7, 2016 at 10:59 pmmy daughter likes to build houses
Corinne Henson says
November 7, 2016 at 9:42 pmMy eldest son enjoys building little houses
Inga Andersen says
November 7, 2016 at 9:24 pmAnything and everything! Cars and made up vehicles seem to be the favourite though
Thebigmango says
November 7, 2016 at 8:05 pmHouses. Always houses!
Danielle Spencer says
November 7, 2016 at 7:50 pmMine like making spaceships, and random star wars type builds 🙂
Laura Banks says
November 7, 2016 at 7:44 pmmy son has made himself a sweetie vending machine
Natasha M says
November 7, 2016 at 7:37 pmMy children love to build castles with daddys old lego 🙂
Jo Glasspool says
November 7, 2016 at 7:26 pmCars and houses.
Barbara Knight says
November 7, 2016 at 6:43 pmRockets and castles are our favourites here.
Hayley Colburn says
November 7, 2016 at 6:34 pmmy daughter builds houses and my son loves making cars and rockets
Soph H says
November 7, 2016 at 6:15 pmThey like to build cars or rockets
olivia kirby says
November 7, 2016 at 6:14 pmMy kids love Lego – they make aircraft, spaceships, houses, robots, all sorts!!
Catherine Pawsey says
November 7, 2016 at 5:37 pmOver half term we had lots of fun building a lego castle together.
Joanne Baldwin says
November 7, 2016 at 5:12 pmFantastic! The last thing my daughter made was a halloween graveyard with monsters and ghosts!
Allie Jackson says
November 7, 2016 at 5:10 pmMy nephew is ALL about boats (especially the Titanic) and submarines! He would adore this book 🙂
Kelly Glen says
November 7, 2016 at 4:52 pmHouses are a favourite thing for us to build
Barbara Handley says
November 7, 2016 at 4:41 pmMy grandson likes building spacecraft.
Liz Hardie says
November 7, 2016 at 4:40 pmMy 5 year old nephew loves superheroes so he’s trying to build the BatCave
Keri Jones says
November 7, 2016 at 4:22 pmMy son loves building towers, very, very tall towers, lol. He also likes to build castles. This book would be great for him 😀 x
caroline walliss says
November 7, 2016 at 4:22 pmIt’s a mixture of buildings and cars, thanks.x
emma walters says
November 7, 2016 at 4:17 pmmy eldest like designing buildings & my youngest son likes planes
Tracy Smith says
November 7, 2016 at 4:11 pmMy son loves building pokemon with his lego at the moment.
Ali Thorpe says
November 7, 2016 at 3:59 pmWhen I was little, it was all about houses! Vehicles seem to be popular with the boys.
Wendy Becker says
November 7, 2016 at 3:55 pmTrains
Rebecca Nisbet says
November 7, 2016 at 3:52 pmmy daughter likes building little lego houses.
Tracy Nixon says
November 7, 2016 at 3:16 pmMy boys love to build space stations and my grls love to build houses and farms!