LEGO® Education

A Garden of Fairies

Try out this wonderful activity to get youngsters twisting, turning, crawling and stretching. They are going to build their own small world of fairies.

• Developing and communicating ideas
• Speaking and listening in small groups
• Investigating gross motor movements, such as jumping, crawling, running and dancing

A Soft Friend

• Developing gross and fine motor skills
• Improving hand-eye coordination
• Expressing emotions through a puppet

Hit the Box

A great thing about LEGO® SOFT bricks is that they are soft enough to throw around. Here's a great way to get youngsters using their bodies, while putting their counting skills to use.

• Developing gross motor skills
• Throwing
• Counting from 1-20

Miniature Golf

Mini Golf is a popular game for young children and it is relatively easy to build your own course using LEGO® SOFT bricks. Add a number value to each pot hole and get the children counting and working on early maths skills without even knowing it!

• Creative development
• Exploring numbers
• Exploring simple additions
• Using expressive language

Queen's Chair

Creating a very special chair for the Queen so that she sits comfortably when she comes to visit the pre-school allows for development of gross motor skills and hand-eye-coordination.

• Improving hand-eye coordination
• Developing gross and fine motor skills
• Experimenting with meeting physical needs

Treasure in the Jungle

This is a great activity designed to get youngsters really moving as well as inspiring their wonderful fantasies. Let's go hunting in the jungle.

• Developing and communicating ideas
• Cooperating with others in small groups
• Exploring paths and directions

A Garden Playhouse

Here is a great activity for investigating what can go on in the garden outside a home. Explore play equipment, gardening tools and role-playing.

• Exploring what goes on outside the home
• Developing an awareness of each others needs, views and feelings
• Investigating play equipment and gardening tools

Here's My Home

An activity focusing on exploring functions and appearances of different homes and investigating different ways of living.

• Learning about the functions of a home
• Differentiating between function and appearance
• Expressing the familiar and less familiar through role-playing and small-world simulations

Going on a Bus Ride

Try out this activity and let your youngsters explore transportation and what it means to go on a bus ride. Have them role-play around rules and conduct on a bus.

• Exploring transportation, such as buses
• Learning about rules and conduct while on a bus
• Using sequential descriptions, such as ‘first this, then this, etc.’

Waste Collection

Explore waste collection and waste disposal and have children learn about concepts of helping out in the community.

• Exploring waste collection
• Learning about waste and waste disposal
• Introducing the concept of municipal services

Ouch, a Broken Leg!

Mrs. O’Neil has just broken her leg and needs to go to the hospital! This activity allows children to explore the roles within a hospital as well as emotions related to injuries and the healing process.

Quick Put Out the Fire!

Hurry and help the firefighters rush to put out a fire! In this exciting activity children will imagine what it is like to be a firefighter and discuss feelings related to emergency situations.

Vroom-vroom: Police on the Go

Police officers are always on the move! In this activity children will explore the roles of police officers and compare and contrast the different vehicles they use including the speedy motorcycle.

Chasing Dinosaurs

This dinosaur activity provides a great opportunity for comparing life on earth in the past and present and it will set the scene for masses of storytelling and role play while sparking children's imagination.

• Finding out about past and present events
• Expressing and communicating thoughts and feelings through imaginative role play
• Interacting with others

Feely Bag

Try out this great game and develop skills like recognizing and naming different animals, develop descriptive language and learning to take turns.

• Naming animals and describing habitats
• Learning to take turns and following rules
• Developing descriptive language

In the Workshop

What happens when farm machinery breaks down? Have the children find out and learn about different farm tools and equipment.

• Learning about farm life
• Identifying crops and farming machinery
• Understanding how different farm equipment works

Animals in Trouble

During this engaging activity, children will learn about endangered animals such as the panda and explore ways people can help them.

Alike and Different

Explore similarities and differences by two attributes and make comparisons by playing this game that the children want to repeat over and over again.

• Exploring similarities/differences by one attribute
• Comparing
• Developing distinctive language

Guess Who

This is a great activity designed to help children develop their listening, comprehensive and expressive skills.

• Naming different features
• Improving memory skills and visual discrimination
• Developing descriptive language

Guess What I do

This activity provides a fun way for children to develop their descriptive language, improve their memory skills and enhance their understanding of the various community roles we have in our society.

• Recognizing and naming different features
• Developing language relating to characters and their functions
• Asking precise questions

Going for a Dip

It is too hot out and Alexis needs a healthy way to stay cool. Have children explore communities as they build a pool for Alexis and her neighbours to enjoy and use for exercise on hot summer days.

A Garden Playhouse

Here's My Home

Gong on a Bus Ride

Waste Collection

Ouch, a Broken Leg!

Quick Put Out the Fire

Vroom-Vroom, Police on the Go

How Farm Animals Live

In the Workshop

Animals in Trouble

My Favourite Place to Live

Part of the Family

Smokeys Got The Keys

This activity is all about children using their imagination and creative skills to help the firefighters retrieve the keys from Smokey, the fire cat, so they can get back into the fire station. Use the activity to cover topics such as the important roles and responsibilities of firefighters, the different jobs they do as well as the skills they have.

• Exploring community services
• Selecting appropriate resources and adapting when necessary
• Expressing and communicating ideas by designing and making things

Fire Fire!

How can we help Fred and Frank, two skilled firefighters, with putting out fires? This activity provides a great opportunity for children to explore what firefighters do, what kind of skills they have and the important roles they play in every community.

• Observing and finding out about features inside and outside fire stations
• Asking questions about why things happen and how things work
• Exploring different means of rescue in connection with fires

Prison Escape

What do policemen do? have you ever needed help from the police? This exciting activity is ideal for talking about why the police are so important and the kind of jobs they do. The story calls for children to use their creativity in order to help the police catch the escaped prisoners.

• Understanding that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people
• Responding to experiences by showing a variety of emotions
• Exploring actions related to danger and helping people

Scary Monsters

Use this great activity to spark children's imagination! The storyline revolves around Bo who's got the hiccups. The children have to help him stop hiccupping by building a scary monster. The activity allows children to make up stories, explore different words, and express their ideas and feelings.

• Using spoken language in play, making up stories and exploring words
• Expressing ideas and feelings
• Listening with enjoyment and responding

Policopter

Help the police build a fantastic Policopter they can use when they're out on police business!

• Exploring police rescue services
• Using imagination in stories
• Using speech to express ideas and events

Get Well Soon Card

A super activity for discussing what takes place at a hospital and how patients may feel. Children are given the task of helping to design a mail box for the hospital where visitors can post get-well cards.

• Observing and finding out about hospitals
• Caring for others
• Expressing and communicating ideas by designing and making things

Clang Bang Chug Chug

A fun and engaging activity for all budding designers and architects! The children have to plan, design and build a garage where trains can be repaired. The activity is also ideal for discussing topics around train travel and transportation.

• Using language to describe shapes and sizes
• Selecting tools and techniques needed to shape and assemble a model
• Using speech to clarify and organize ideas and thoughts

Dinosaur Jungle

What did the world look like when dinosaurs were still alive? How did the dinosaurs live? This activity provides an opportunity for exploring simple facts of prehistoric life, like extinction, survival of the fittest, herbivores and carnivores, and much more.

Finding out about past and present events

Finding out about living creatures and their world

Expressing and communicating ideas

At the Zoo

Here is a great activity for investigating what life in a Zoo is all about. Explore names of animals, count and categorize them and talk about differences and similarities.

• Interacting with others, planning and taking turns
• Using mathematical ideas such as counting and categorizing
• Using language to describe animals and their differences and similarities

A Visit to the Cafe

Being down town and badly in need of food and a nice place to sit and enjoy the food. Explore what a café is like, design and make one and investigate ordering procedures while using expressive language.

• Exploring temperament and attitudes
• Investigating ordering procedures
• Developing expressive language

Home Sweet Home

Explore different ways of living as to form, functions and features while exploring the concept of scale and encouraging mathematical language.

• Beginning to make comparisons and investigating the concept of scale
• Describing forms and functions
• Exploring and encouraging mathematical language

Ice-cream - Cool!

It is time for a nice big ice-cream in the park. Investigate stable structures and design and make a cool ice-cream stand that will catch people’s attention.

• Investigating structures
• Understanding people’s needs and emotions
• Making choices and interacting

Post It at the Post Office

It is birthday time and invitations have to be sent out by post. Have the children investigate the procedures of how to do so while exploring community services.

• Investigating community services
• Creating own community and exploring needs
• Exploring communication principles

Going to Hospital

Here is a great activity for exploring casualties and emergency services and learning about what happens and which categories of people you meet when taken to hospital.

Molly Stuck up a Tree

Mrs Smith’s cat Molly is stuck up a tree and she needs help to rescue her. Explore the concept of people and animals in need and the role of community services.

Police Van on the Move

The alarm goes off at the station showing a robbery at the local bank. Investigate police services, right and wrong and keeping law and order.

A Mini Excavator for the Goldfish Pond

Taking a problem-solving approach, children investigate what it takes to build a goldfish pond in the garden. Have them make choices, fulfill needs and explore safety regulations.

An Ice-cream Van

This great activity allows children to investigate the best ice-cream vehicle design for Eileen, adapting this for specific purposes and influencing purchase behaviours.

Going to Work by Bus

Being late for work, Carrie rushes to take the bus for work. With this set-up children explore bus transportation, traffic rules and municipal services.

Postman Paula's Deliveries

Being a postman and delivering letters is not always an easy job. Explore about different ways of dispatching mail and learn about vehicle designs for specific purposes.

Seals Basking in the Sun

This activity allows children to investigate animals living underwater, to sort and name these and specifically about seals and their preferred preoccupation; basking in the sun.

Shearing Sammy the Sheep

This great activity allows children to investigate which animals live on a farm, to sort and categorize and specifically about the notion of shearing sheep.

Tanya the Missing Three Horn

This great activity allows children to investigate pre-historic animals, to sort, categorise and name these while exploring their optimal living conditions.

The Cute Baby Elephant

This activity allows children to investigate animals on the savannah and find out about their different habitat and living conditions.

Checking In

It is a busy summer day at the airport and a lot of passengers are ready for holidays. This activity allows children to investigate checking in procedures and safety and security at an airport.

Polly in the Air

Taking a problem-solving approach, children can explore different airborne devices, investigate take off and landing and fulfill Polly’s dream of ‘flying like a bird’.

Space Buggy Explorations

What is it like to be an astronaut and travel in space? Have the children explore different space vehicles and how these travel best on different surfaces.

Space Calling Earth

Two scientists at the space station have a problem with their satellite transmission. Have children help them sort this out while learning about outer space communication devices and the data collection.

Fishing at Sea

What does it take to get seafood on the table? With this activity children explore the mechanisms of fishing at sea, auctioning and preparing the catch.

Going to the Beach

With this great activity children explore leisure time activities at the beach and define safety aspects of beach life.

• Exploring life at the beach
• Learning about safety at the beach
• Developing leisure time activities

Roger's Rally Car

Roger is all up for winning the yearly rally but he needs a fast car. This activity focuses on different forms of transportation devices and allows the children to design and make and test streamlined cars.

Danny the Dazzling Dragon

From a storytelling approach, children are encouraged to explore fairy tale scenarios, to use fantasy and imagination and develop expressive language.

Forest Forever

Taking a problem-solving approach, children design and make solutions to hide-and-seek games while developing spatial awareness and storytelling.

The Rescue of Princess Amelia

Princess Amelia is in despair and has fled to the old tower. With this activity children can develop appropriate language and narrate by designing and making rescue devices for Prince Richard to sweep her off her feet.

The Witch in the Gingerbread House

With this great activity children get to know about well-known fairy tales, retell and reproduce while exploring colours, patterns and different building techniques.

Spinning Top

One day at the park Sam and Sara saw some other children playing with spinning tops. Their tops spun for a long time before falling over. Great fun! Sam and Sara thought about how to make some tops themselves and in no time they were spinning their own tops. But their tops didn’t spin for long and soon their fingers started to hurt from all the spinning. They needed a device that could make the spinning tops spin faster and better! Can you help Sam and Sara build a device that can make the spinning tops spin?

9314 Fire Station Tower

9314 Fire Station Truck

9314 Helicopter

9314 Large Ambulance

9314 Prison

9333 Dumper Truck

9333 Garbage Truck

9333 Ice Cream Van

9334 Gorillas

9334 Mammoth

9334 Octopus

9334 Sharks

9334 T-Rex

9334 Tractor and Trailer

9335 Cargo Plane

9335 Helicopter

9335 Passenger Plane

9335 Space Shuttle

9335 Trolley and Luggage

9385 Castle

9385 Dragon

9385 Fishing Lake

9385 Garden

9385 Ginger Cake House

9385 Hot Air Balloon

9385 Kitchen

9385 Tower

A Visit to the Cafe

Home Sweet Home

Post It at the Post Office

Going to Hospital

Molly Stuck up a Tree

Police Van on the Move

A Mini Excavator for the Goldfish Pond

Going to Work by Bus

Postman Paula's Deliveries

Rogers Rally Car

Seals Basking in the Sun

Shearing Sammy the Sheep

Tanya the Missing Three Horn

The Cute Baby Elephant

Checking In

Polly in the Air

Space Buggy Exploration

Space Calling Earth

City Building Set

Download an overview of all the elements in the 9311 City Building Set

Communication, Language & Literacy

Skills covered for Communication, Language and Literacy (inc. 8 ideas):

• Communicate ideas and listen
• Explore reading and early writing
• Use imagination and role play

Creative Development

Skills covered for Creative Development (inc. 8 ideas):

• Imaginative role play
• Explore art and design
• Communicate ideas
• Work with colours and shapes

Knowledge & Understanding of the World

Skills covered for Knowledge and Understanding of the World (inc. 10 ideas):

• Problem-solving and critical thinking
• Prediction and observation
• Explore communities and cultures
• Early Science & Technology concepts

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

Skills covered for Personal, Social and Emotional Development (inc. 10 ideas):

• Develop positive sense of self
• Respect for others
• Team work
• Explore culture and community

Problem-Solving, Reasoning & Numeracy

Skills covered for Problem-Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy (inc. 16 ideas):

• Counting 0-20
• Measure and make comparisons
• Colour and shape recognition
• Explore pattern making