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rich_jackoYesterday was an epic day for Lego building at the Jackson Towers kids club.
Tim dropped Bryony off around 10:30am. Then Jamie came round an hour later (so Ju and Paul could build a bed) and Evie brought my assistant builders to three an hour after that (so Ed could do car runs).
Our task for the day - building a Lego Christmas market, all 2,878 pieces of it according to the boxes. The kids all played well together. There were enough different things to build that we could all gather round the table and help without getting in one another's way. The one-person-find/one-person-build technique also worked well.
It wasn't all building. Jamie and Evie wanted to play with other things, so the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings Lego and Doctor Who pseudo-Lego also came out to play. This meant the growing marketplace occasionally got invaded by Ringwraiths and Daleks...
We broke for lunch and watched 'The Christmas Invasion' (B's choice). We broke again for an afternoon snack and watched 'The Empire Strikes Out' (B's and J's choice). Yes, in the latter case we took a break from Lego by watching... more Lego. Lego Star Wars cartoons should really carry a health warning though. I think B nearly choked herself to death from laughing.
The kids were collected by their respective dads in the reverse order they arrived in. Evie wasn't pleased about having to go as there was still more stuff to be built. Jamie wanted to stay too when it was his time to go. Liz rang about 5pm to check we were still alive/the phone was working. Yes, but we weren't quite done yet! We finally finished around 6:30pm, and here it is completed (B's layout):
It was a fun day. The kids all enjoyed it a lot, and I did too.
Unfortunately but inevitably, this happened this morning:
Tim dropped Bryony off around 10:30am. Then Jamie came round an hour later (so Ju and Paul could build a bed) and Evie brought my assistant builders to three an hour after that (so Ed could do car runs).
Our task for the day - building a Lego Christmas market, all 2,878 pieces of it according to the boxes. The kids all played well together. There were enough different things to build that we could all gather round the table and help without getting in one another's way. The one-person-find/one-person-build technique also worked well.
It wasn't all building. Jamie and Evie wanted to play with other things, so the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings Lego and Doctor Who pseudo-Lego also came out to play. This meant the growing marketplace occasionally got invaded by Ringwraiths and Daleks...
We broke for lunch and watched 'The Christmas Invasion' (B's choice). We broke again for an afternoon snack and watched 'The Empire Strikes Out' (B's and J's choice). Yes, in the latter case we took a break from Lego by watching... more Lego. Lego Star Wars cartoons should really carry a health warning though. I think B nearly choked herself to death from laughing.
The kids were collected by their respective dads in the reverse order they arrived in. Evie wasn't pleased about having to go as there was still more stuff to be built. Jamie wanted to stay too when it was his time to go. Liz rang about 5pm to check we were still alive/the phone was working. Yes, but we weren't quite done yet! We finally finished around 6:30pm, and here it is completed (B's layout):
It was a fun day. The kids all enjoyed it a lot, and I did too.
Unfortunately but inevitably, this happened this morning:
