How to Play Creatively with LEGO Bricks and Mini Figures

Playing with LEGOs offer tons of opportunities to get creative. From building a medieval fort to using mini-figures to create a family, your imagination is the limit! It's easy to lose touch with your creativity in the bustle of school, but with a bit of effort you, your friends, and your family can have plenty of fun playing creatively with LEGO bricks and mini-figures.

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Creating Unique Worlds and Stories

  1. Start with a flat surface and build a castle using regular bricks or arches, doors, and special windows. Try and make secret passages, a moat and drawbridge, a tower, and dungeons! Stick some crocodiles in the moat and create a battle with your mini-figures. Give characters roles like kings, queens, princesses, emperors, dukes, duchesses, fairies, castle guards, and servants. [1]
    • Develop a storyline. Ask questions like: how does the battle play out? Is the frog a lost prince in disguise? Do mercenaries appear and backstab their friends? Who organizes the jailbreaks? Does anyone become a traitor?
    • Use a minifigure as a scale reference when building structures to maintain accurate proportions.
    • Add horses, chariots, catapults, and anything else you can think of.
    • Buy LEGO Kingdoms Joust and LEGO Castle Medieval Market Village for the most relevant pieces.
  2. Use thin brown and orange bricks to make the sand and add some LEGO palm trees as scenery. Add some pirate ships, merchant vessels, and boats. Use mini-figures as pirates, royalty and rich families, peasants, and stowaways. Decide which way the wind is blowing so that you know how to guide your boats through the water. Name important characters and begin creating a storyline that connects the characters in boats with those on the island. [2]
    • Ask questions like: how does the story begin? When ships spot each other, do they become friends or raid each other? Does anyone have cannons to fire? Who is taken hostage? Is anyone shipwrecked? Do the island animals join the fray? How do personalities collide? Does a thunder god turn the tides of the sea?
    • Buy the LEGO Prince of Persia Desert Attack Set or the LEGO Minecraft Creative Adventure—The Desert Outpost for the most relevant pieces.
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  3. Imagine it: people wake up in a land full of nothing. No homes, secret passages, or even rocks to stumble on. What do they do? Do people pick teams? Is the weather rainy and intense, or sunny and calm? Do the characters get along, or begin to fight? These scenarios give you lots of freedom to do whatever you want!
    • Create a secret overlord that can create walls and scenery, alter with the weather, or abduct people. Decide if the people know about the overlord, or if the whole thing is just a mystery. Use the overlord to swap people's heads and locations!
  4. Choose your favorite movie or TV show and try and create some of their characters! Study pictures of your favorite people—real or fictional—and play around with legs, torsos, heads, and facial hair to make models. Get some markers or paint and color your figurines to give you even more customization options. Draw on some accessories like belts, watches, and ties! [3]
    • Save money on official LEGO sets by using your imagination. For example, if you can't afford to buy a set of the Hobbit LEGOs, try making characters on your own!
    • Try to make a LEGO mini-figure that looks like you! You can even dress like your LEGO mini-figure and carry it around in your pocket.
  5. Have everyone pick a team of LEGO people, grab a giant pile of bricks, and let the wars begin! Construct buildings to boost your defense. Scavenge for weapons and tools and attack your enemies. Use potions to turn invisible. Dress up like a serving girl and sneak into the dungeons to free your friends. Recruit ancient dragons to help you. Anything is possible!
    • Don't be selfish when selecting your LEGO pieces!
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Playing LEGO Games

  1. Use your mini-figures as player pieces and keep a pile of LEGO pieces close-by for currency. Give each person 20 currency pieces to start. Place another 20 into the "pond" to start. Take turns to roll the dice and move along the board, following the instructions on each panel until someone reaches the finish line. [4]
  2. Attach a flat, narrow LEGO brick (8x1) vertically onto a LEGO baseboard, and add another directly on top of it to create a vertical line 16 notches long. Create another vertical 16-notch line to the left or right of it so that it runs parallel, with about 4 notches in between each. Connect the lines horizontally using 2 long, narrow 4x1 pieces and attach 4 more to the outside of the horizontal lines to finish your Tic-Tac-Toe board.
    • Use square bricks (4x4) as the pieces. Make sure the pieces are the same size and have each player use a different color
    • Replace the square bricks with mini-figures to switch things up.
  3. Get a LEGO baseboard and round up some friends. Each of you take turns placing a piece onto the board to create your own individual tower. But the rule is this: each piece must be bigger than the last in terms of notches! The player who makes the biggest tower wins. [5]
    • If you have an even number of people, play team-based games. For example, 4 people can make 2 groups of 2 players. Each player takes turns adding to the tower and discussing the best move!
  4. Use a large, thin, and flat square as the baseboard. Create a perimeter around all 3 sides of the board using long, thin LEGO pieces (no more than 1 notch wide), and leave the other side open. Attach more long, thin pieces vertically around the playing board within the perimeter to act as the pieces the ball will bounce off. [6]
    • Attach 1x1 pieces, 3x3 corner pieces, and long 4x1 and 6x1 pieces within the perimeter of the board for your pinballs to hit.
    • Try to keep an even spacing distribution between to pieces within the perimeter to ensure the ball has enough pieces to bounce off of.
    • Use 1 to 2 small marbles as your pinballs and gently move the board around to guide them. Assign each piece a certain amount of points and try hitting them!
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Learning with LEGO Pieces

  1. Film a stop-motion LEGO movie. Think of a brief storyline—about 3 minutes or less—and create your characters and environment. Obtain a digital camera, smartphone, or webcam with the appropriate software. Start with the first scene and take your first picture. Afterward, move the characters slightly and take the next picture. Continue this process and be sure to use consistent lighting. Add some funny voices and sound effects if you want!
    • Use software like Dragonframe, iStopMotion, and Stop Motion Pro to create videos from your pictures.
    • Post your video on YouTube, or just keep it as a home movie
    • Add hilarious captions to your pictures and post these photos online or use them as your screensaver.
  2. Gather a variety of LEGO pieces in different sizes. Be sure that you have enough pieces to match each color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Align the pieces into the shape of each arch of the rainbow.
    • Alternate the sizes of the colors in each rainbow arch to create different textures.
    • Draw a rainbow on a piece of blank white paper using colored markers and use this as a guide for your LEGO rainbow.
  3. Gather as many kinds of pieces as possible. Be sure you have a color for each planet and star. For example, orange for the Sun, yellow for Mercury, red for Venus, green for Earth, red for Mars, orange for Jupiter, brown for Saturn, green for Uranus, and blue for Neptune. [7]
    • Print out a map of the different planets and do your best to match their unique shape!
    • For example, create the sun out of 2x2 thick yellow blocks. Make it as big as you want!
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    Start with a city corner: LEGO City Corner (7641). Expand it from here with more buildings, roads, and people.
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      • Make weird characters! Dress mini-figures so their outfits clash. Try giving a beard or mustache to someone who is obviously a girl. Be creative!
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      • Try boosting your LEGO spirit by decorating your room with LEGOs. Have LEGO patterned bedspreads. Paint your walls with LEGO scenes. Glue LEGO mini-figures to your light switch. Put LEGOs all over your room. Or dress up as a LEGO for Halloween!
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      • Watch The LEGO Movie for some game ideas for using LEGO creatively.
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      1. ↑ https://www.lego.com/biassets/bi/4549347.pdf
      2. ↑ https://www.lego.com/biassets/bi/6129417.pdf
      3. ↑ https://www.brothers-brick.com/2012/03/14/how-to-tools-of-minifig-customization-confessions-of-a-customizer-part-ii
      4. ↑ https://confidencemeetsparenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Lego-Game-Directions.pdf
      5. ↑ https://frugalfun4boys.com/2017/02/18/lego-party-games/
      6. ↑ https://spaceshipsandlaserbeams.com/blog/boyish-charm/17-ways-to-play-with-lego-this-summer
      7. ↑ https://www.kitchencounterchronicle.com/lego-solar-system

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      To have fun playing with LEGO bricks and mini figures, trying building a medieval realm with a castle. You can include a moat, a drawbridge, a tower, and even a dungeon! If you're not up for building a castle, try making a desert island instead. You can build palm trees, boats, sand dunes, and more! Once you've built the setting of your LEGO story, bring in the mini-figures and start creating the characters. For example, you could make one figure the king of the rest, or you could make the figures a crew of pirates stranded at sea. To learn how to play board games using LEGO pieces, scroll down!

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