Lego Games and Teamwork

The sound coming from the other room was so enjoyable! I heard lots of silliness and giggling. When I went to see what the source of all the joyful sounds, I discovered my three youngest children sitting at the kitchen table playing a game I hadn’t seen before.

As I pressed in to find out what they were doing I discovered that they were playing a LEGO game. Daniel, my 9-year-old, had created three game boards with the LEGOs. The first had a volcano on it, the second an island and the third was a robot castle. The point of each game is to collect the fire crown from the top of the volcano, the emerald staff from the robot castle and the water sword from the island by spinning a wheel made out of Legos. This is done by moving the little peg-styled man the number of spaces indicated by the spinning wheel through various obstacles, pick up the item and bring it back to their original spot.

As I continued to listen I learned that Daniel came up with the game ideas and built the game boards. He invited his sisters, Tiana (14) and Alina (12) to play with him and they, over a period of time, helped him improve this and tweak that until they came up with the game I was seeing. I was so blessed by their ability to work and play together in a productive and enjoyable manner!

A few days later Alina and Daniel wrote up directions for the Volcano version of the game. Alina typed as they both brainstormed on how to word the instructions. When the instructions were done and printed out I sat and played all three games with Daniel.

I was so impressed with how much fun the games were to play! We came up with some modifications to their game directions and they are in the process of editing them.

In the meantime, Daniel is adding a 4th part to his game which involves a cave. As it turns out he has decided to combine all three games into one big game and will be adding the fourth, the cave, when it is done.

The creating and game playing and teamwork continues!