10 LEGO Activities for Kids

Fun fact: LEGOs were invented in Denmark where my mom was born, and she had a set that would be quite valuable today if she had hung onto it. Anyway, LEGOs have long been a favorite tool for fostering creativity and imagination in children and we have incorporated them into much of our own learning journey. In fact, playing is how God designed children to learn! So you can just go ahead and consider it a part of your curriculum in my humble opinion. 😉

So if you’re looking to inspire those malleable young minds in your household, there are countless exciting and educational LEGO activities that can keep your kids entertained for hours (so you can actually cook and clean and do other necessary life things knowing they are not rotting their little brains out in a zombie-like trance staring at a screen).

From simple building challenges to themed creations and STEM projects, these 10 LEGO activities for kids help them develop problem-solving skills, patience, and teamwork while having a blast.

LEGO Robot Activity by Little Bins for Little Hands

Building LEGO robots is a great activity to promote creativity. I mean come on, what kid hasn’t stated their plans to build a room-cleaning robot? Robots are all the kid rage. Filtering out small, techy parts gives kids a great headstart on this engaging activity.

LEGO Animal Charades Printable Game by Life with Darcy & Brian

Here’s a fun game that incorporates LEGO for multiple kinds of play simultaneously. The printable charades cards give the kids loads of prompts, so the game can go on as long as you like.

Free Printable Lego Challenge Cards by Fox Farm Home

When it comes to LEGO activities, these LEGO challenge card printables are the perfect thing for a random afternoon. Print them up ahead of time, so when the kids have the LEGOs out and don’t know what to build, you can challenge them with one of these cards. Here’s an idea: have a contest for each card and the child with the best creation wins a little reward!

10 Frames Math with Legos Activities by A Little Pinch of Perfect

Here’s another great printable LEGO activity for younger kids. They can use LEGO blocks for number recognition, color recognition, sorting, and even basic math. (I’ve seen this done with other items, as well, including sea shells!) It’s great to use whatever your child is currently interested in.)

LEGO Football by Fireflies & Mud Pies

Paper football is a classic game for kids (and bored adults stuck in cubicles all day.) Making goalposts from LEGO adds a whole new dimension to this fun, generations-spanning pastime.

DIY LEGO Clock by Artsy Fartsy Mama

A LEGO clock is such a fantastic idea. You only need a baseplate, a clock mechanism, and some blocks to represent the numbers. This is an especially great activity for that mechanically-minded child of yours. And seeing the numbers visually represented can be helpful to younger ones.

Lego Scavenger Hunt Clues by Homeschool of 1

These printable LEGO scavenger hunt cards are a great way to spend an afternoon. You can either put a new LEGO set at the end or hide minifigures at each location on the hunt.

Lego Altoid Tins by Crafts by Amanda

I love this creative LEGO craft idea so much! Altoids tins are one of those items you just know there has to be a good use for, but whatever that good use is seems to elude most of us, so the dusty stash of multiplying tins is eventually banished to the trash.

Well, here you go, tin hoarders! Turn those old Altoids tins into fun little travel LEGO kits. Why didn’t I think of that?

Lego Snowflake Symmetry by Rainy Day Mum

Symmetry is an exciting concept that can fascinate kids…and adults. I’ve always been a fan of patterns and drew on this fascination a lot back in my day as an art major. Comparing symmetry in snowflakes and LEGO projects can help your kids explore this concept even deeper and see the beauty and math in God’s designs.

Lego Popsicle Stick Catapult Activity by Hunny I’m Home

You can do this project under the guise of studying the history of catapults in war, but we all know it’s just an excellent excuse for kids to fling LEGO pieces across the room at each other. 😉 Nevertheless, fling away!

It seems like a pretty good way to spend an afternoon…but this is admittedly coming from a mom who once turned a flopped recipe into a food fight and threw pancake balls at her kids. I may have a bit of a warped sense of the definition of a “good way to spend an afternoon.” 🤣

LEGO Activities Summary

Whether it’s summer break or just another homeschool day, incorporating play into our children’s everyday lives is so essential to their learning and development! I hope you’ll enjoy exploring and playing with them using these fun LEGO activities whenever the mood strikes.

Don’t be afraid to make some outside-the-box memories…even if it’s not as wild as pelting them with rubbery pancake balls! 😁

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Danielle Papageorgiou has been homeschooling, or “lifeschooling,” for 21 years (she counts birth as day 1!) and has blogged, spoken, and run her own conference for many of those years. She has a passion for helping other homeschoolers learn how to homeschool in a way that does not compete with family life, but actually enhances it…homeschooling done in a spirit of freedom, not legalism.