L-EGG-O Surprise Builds

Adding a fun Easter twist to our LEGO challenge builds this week!

Both my kids love building bricks regardless of the size or style. I often create little build challenges for them to help freshen up our play sessions. Today I decided to make some 'L-EGG-O Surprises' and it was such a hit for both ages!

What you need:

- small building bricks (we used LEGOs but any style would work as long as they are small)

- plastic Easter eggs

- I also used our fun StoryBricks Letter Board, a basket and some fake grass for the set up

How it works:

Start off by filling the eggs with a selection of LEGO pieces. Try and include a few basic bricks, a minifigure or similar, and then a fun selection of pieces and accessories such as trees, lights, chairs etc. Place them in a basket and invite your kids to choose an egg!

Once everyone has an egg the kids can crack them open and see what they have to build with. Both my 3 year old and 6 year old were pretty excited when LEGO pieces came tumbling out of their eggs.

Now it was time to get creative and build something with the pieces from the eggs.

It was fun to watch baby sis and big bro carefully creating. They were really using their imaginations to make something cool with the few bricks they had.

I had planned that each egg would be a new build, but once big bro finished his first egg he excitedly cracked open another and started adding to his space station creation with it. His way actually worked out great and it was a fun way for him to expand on his ideas and problem solve when he didn't have the pieces he 'needed'.

This STEM activity was a great way to work on engineering skills. You could see both kids thinking carefully about how to use the pieces they had. Big bro was determined to use every single piece in his eggs, while baby sis tended to just use some of them.

I also loved watching how they dealt with wanting to swap pieces. There were some serious negotiations and huge compromises! Such a fun way to enjoy a mini STEM challenge with materials you likely already have.