DIY Lego Board Game

We have been having lots of fun learning with Legos lately.  We loved using Legos to build sentences.  One of our activities during school this week was creating this fun DIY Lego Board game.

To make our game board, we used a large square of cardboard from the recycling box.

I covered the cardboard with a large piece of white paper, and then we started to design our game board.

The kids decided to color the rectangles on our board with bright colors you would find in Legos.

Once it was colored, I added directions to the rectangles.

One of the goals of the game was to practice reading skills, so I made sure to make the directions fairly simple for my beginning readers.   I included color words, like “Pick up 1 blue” and other simple directions, like “Put back 1 block.”

To play our Lego board game, the kids rolled a game die, moved their Lego character, and followed the directions on the rectangle landed on.

At the end of the game they had fun creating with the pieces they had picked up.

Extensions: 

Older kids could design a more complicated board, including more specific directions of which pieces to pick up.

Or, play with a bunch of 2×2 square bricks and see who can build the tallest tower at the end to determine a winner!

(This post is not endorsed by the Lego company, it was merely inspired by its awesome interlocking blocks.)

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