Everyone's beloved and recognized all over the world, the Lego constructor can not only lure children for a long time in collecting various fakes, but also contributes to their development of both imagination with the logic of construction and hand motor skills.
And, frankly, not only children love to recreate and play with bricks from this company.
Adults also often show no less interest in this activity, which has long turned from simple fun into whole construction of practical things or works of art.
Why is LEGO so popular?
This brand distinguishes it from all the rest by the highest quality characteristics of both the material itself from which the small parts are made, and the very shapes of these very details: you can step on them as much as you want, but it is extremely difficult to break the discrete part of the designer itself.
And given the high assortment of various forms and types of components, any designs from them can be made very beautiful.
Here we will consider a wide variety of DIY Lego crafts so that parents and children can together do something cool for the child, and something useful for everyone.
Crafts for children
If parents want to teach their child to make constructions from Lego, then a good option would be to buy not specific models at an increased price, but to purchase creator sets: in them you will find a lot of parts of different shapes and colors, from which you can assemble almost anything.
Usually a large number of instructions for different structures are attached to them, but here you can also find many schemes of Lego crafts:
- So, for example, you can assemble a typewriter. Moreover, thanks to the variety of components, it is possible to make any model: from a simple passenger car to a KAMAZ.
- The next photo of Lego crafts shows how you can construct a robot. They are especially popular among boys, therefore there are specialized kits with which robots and their components are easily built. However, if you try and use your imagination, then you can make them from simple cubes.
- Houses are the lightest crafts, but at the same time they can be the most beautiful. It is enough just to build walls, floors and a roof from cubes and the structure is ready. But children of any gender will happily use them for their games and gatherings. And if you try, you can create such large-scale and complex structures, then many adults will not refuse to have this miracle at home as an interior or just a beautiful model in the collection.
- Lego animals are truly nice and cute toys that children will be happy to play with outside the home. There are, as well as ready-made animals in the format of one part from certain sets, and models from many elements. You can make both simple and small animals, as well as more complex and large ones. On the next selection of photos, you can see ready-made solutions for creating a giraffe, a chameleon, a crocodile and others.
- Further, another popular building theme is military equipment. There are also no restrictions on the possibilities, since different shapes of the details will allow you to design a tank, an airplane, a helicopter, and so on.
Of course, the list is far from limited, but here are collected basic things that will help both children and parents to develop in their design abilities.
To find much more design variations, you can refer to the video of making crafts and Lego, there is a lot of interesting and exciting.
LEGO building rules
A separate point worth mentioning is the rules on how to make Lego crafts with children:
- When you buy construction kits in the store, be sure to look at the recommended age, as it affects the size of the parts and the simplicity of the buildings for the child.
- If you buy a designer kit for a small child, then you need to purchase sets with larger parts and make sure that he does not take them in his mouth.
- Children should not immediately acquire complex and large sets - it is better to start with something simpler and gradually teach them how to make crafts and constructors.
- At first, you should adhere to the instructions in the kits. So children will be able to understand the logic of the structure of crafts and in the future they will learn to build their own designs, looking back at the imagination.
Practical crafts
In addition to structures designed exclusively for games or collections, you can build more practical structures to use. This will be useful not only for children, but also for adults if they want to diversify their home with things made from a bright and beautiful construction set.
First of all, when we talk about the practical application of Lego, we mean a variety of organizers: boxes and not only with many compartments and other things.
- It can be a housekeeper, and stands for pencils, pens, toothbrushes, etc.
- The color scheme can be as variegated as it is strict and monotonous, depending on the needs and the general interior in the house.
Flower vases are also often made from Lego. There are, as well as simple square or rectangular vases, and more specific and elegant forms.
And thanks to the multi-colored cubes, you can build any beautiful pattern for any taste and preference.
Another striking example is the lampshades from the designer for any lamp: they only limit the number of details and the imagination.
If you want a truly original design for a lamp, then the constructor and many instructions from the Internet will help in this matter for creating cool Lego crafts.
New Year's buildings
Often during the New Year holidays, children, and not only them, want to decorate their home with something extremely unusual and here New Year's crafts from Lego come to the rescue.
Any standard items from the New Year's festive everyday life, which will be made from a colorful constructor, will look beautiful and delight the eye.
It can be compositions from a decorated Christmas tree, gif.webpts, Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden, a snowman, a sleigh, etc.
You can use the following selection of photos for beautiful and original home decorating ideas.
Photos of lego crafts
