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    We were never allowed to keep things built for more than a few days as children. After the first few days new stuff was mixed in with old. Mostly we do this although I wouldn't make them break something up they were proud of until they were ready. I am also going to make an acception for the Lego castle they got for Christmas.

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    Oh my gosh... my son is still enamored by legos. His birthday request this year is to skip the party and just get him the new Lego Mindstorms set. He loves the technic sets and for Christmas I got him the motor kit so he can build stuff and make it move around. He loves to follow the directions and build the stuff... but it rarely stays together for more than a week. Then it's all into his giant bins and made into other things. He loves building space ships and helicopters and robots.


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    DD hardly played with the Lego except to build the kits until about a year ago when she became obsessed with making fantastical wheeled entities. She also did an after school Lego program last term called 'bricks for kids' that she enjoyed tremendously. She enjoys making all manner of structures now. Santa dropped off an EV3 Mindstorms kit that she is just staring to explore - the bricks for kids really helped her dexterity with the Technics struts and cogs used in this series as well.


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    Originally Posted by 1frugalmom
    Our DD9 and DD8 build per instructions, then play with whatever they just built. I posted previously about DD9's obsession with not wanting to take her creations apart...ever! We have been lucky enough to purchase some bulk used Legos (just a large tub full of odds and ends). For some reason it is okay to build and rebuild with these particular Legos (sometimes), but if it came in a box, with specific directions, then in DD9's opinion - that is what it was meant to be.

    The girls received several Lego Friends sets for Christmas and have put them all together now. They have an entire town set up in a corner of our front room floor. Certain pets go with certain people and they take their pets to the vet, the park, and to the stable, etc. They go to the store and everyone has a job. They only have 2 Lego cars, so some Lego families have to walk. Eventually some of their older creations will find their place in this new town and some things will morph into other things, but there is no taking things apart without causing major drama.


    Teehee - sounds like a LEGO SIMS game. I like it!!

    My older son (now 7) is only now starting to build with instructions. He prefers free form building always, although he got a BIG set that he asked for for his bday and is slowly but surely working on that.

    My middle son (5) prefers to build on instructions only and then keep what he has built. He got the Star wars X-wing set for his birthday and works on it a bit each day.

    My little one loves his duplo and prefers for now to build his own way - mostly large towers and what he calls cranes.


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    DD4 has a few sets. At first she builds them to spec and plays with them. She likes to break them apart and rebuild a few times. After she's done that a couple of times, she'll use the pieces to make her own creations.

    She also has a gigantic bag of loose lego that DH saved from his childhood which she uses to free play with.

    She's obsessed with lego in general and usually plays with them for a couple of hours everyday.

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    DS9 hasn't played much with Lego for awhile, except working with his team to build a robot in Lego League. But when he was into them more, he would want to build free form all the time. I had a rule that he had to build by the instructions once first. smile The only structure that remains intact is the giant VW Bug, but that was really for me. smile

    Recently, he has discovered the fun of using Lego for 6 second stop-motion Vine videos.

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