Rainbow Tower

Putting our new rainbow deck of playing cards to good use with this fun tower building Lego game.

Rainbow Tower.

What you need:

- deck of rainbow playing cards (we got ours at the dollar store, UNO cards would also work)

- selection of Lego bricks

- we played this game on our DIY Lego table using a Creative QT peel-and-stick baseplate

How it works:

I gave the deck of cards a good shuffle and placed them on the Lego table next to a selection of bricks.

The set up.

My son and I took it in turns to turn over the top card and say the colour of the card and the number on it. The person who flipped over the card then had to add that many of that colour bricks to the tower. After each turn we put the card down on the table. If it was a colour card that we did not have Lego bricks of then we simply chose the next card on the pile.

The rainbow tower got pretty big!

My son got more and more enthusiastic as the tower got taller and taller. After each new colour section was added we said the pattern of colours and counted the total number of bricks in the tower (over 20 required some help!). He couldn't contain his excitement when he turned over the 10 green card! Unfortunately it was the 4 blue bricks that were just too much for our tower and it toppled over!

Timbeeerrrrrrrr.....

We decided to play this as a co-operative game but with older children they might like to make it competitive with the loser being the one who causes the tower to tumble.