Lego Creations

My Hubsta picked up a box of lego at a garage sale a few years ago. We have been slowly adding to it over the years with little cheap projects. Miss 7 has been enjoying it for a while now and now Master 4 1/5 is loving it too. They have both developed so much in their creativity. Initially they would bring us up their little projects and I would think to myself "What is it?". Now they bring up an elaborate house or a car...and I think..yes that really looks like... something!

From this site I learned the other things they are learning are:

• Learning about Numbers through Play
• Social development
• Shapes and Colors
• Ideas and Creativity
• learning by doing, also referred to as hands-on learning or learning by making things
• Getting a feel for [a grasp on, literally] the qualities of the materials at hand
• learning about the powers of progressive refinement (trial-error), and of starting over (doing-undoing)
• patience, determination and self-esteem

And here I was thinking it was just a nice way to get some peace and quiet!
Are your kids into lego?