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Re: Summer LEGO Building Camp Help
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Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:53:23 GMT
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In lugnet.edu, Brian Pilati wrote:
> Anyway, I would like to ask for some help on some ideas on new LEGO ideas during
> the camp.
You could expand your themes.
You should include the popular themes of City, Castle, Space and Adventure.
"Real" modeling and interacting with minifigs is very popular.
By adding these themes and Train, the fourth day could be a combined effort day.
Using the standards for Train layouts, one group works on the track layout.
Another group builds train cars. A third does Town buildings. The fourth adds
vehicles and people. They bring it all together for one large diorama that
generates a big "We did that" effect.
You could include Bionicle/Technic. But I'd reserve those for the fourth or
fifth day to force more use of the basic bricks.
A stretch for the time frame is an intro to Brick Films. Build a diorama, write
a story, and then take some pictures to make a storyboard/comic strip to go with
the story.
If you go with the eBay pounds of brick idea below, you could make the MOC
creation a cumulative building experience. The bricks would get progressively
more interesting each day. Day 1 basic bricks. Day 2 figures and slopes. Day 3
wheels, windows, and wings. Day 4 the greebles. Day 5 trading and anything goes
You could introduce BrickShelf.com. This with sharing of email addresses could
foster after the class Lego MOCs.
To lessen start up costs, you could have enough of one theme for a table or a
pair of kids. At the end of each day, that group would pick what it wanted to
build with for tomorrow. This would provide more variety of creations each day.
By choosing at the end of the day, they should come back with more ideas for
their MOC creation. I suggest pairs because two kids can make a decision more
easily than nine. A round robin picking order also helps be fair.
As TLG cannot help with the bricks given away, you could buy pounds of used
bricks off eBay. For $290, you should be able to get about 50-60 pounds. This
would take time to clean and sort. But, each kid could build something really
neat to take home. To be fair, you would have to limit how many specialty
pieces/figures each kid could have. Because of time constraints, you could let
them take home pieces to help finish their model at home.
A different alternative is to buy the discount sets at shop.lego.com. But that
may be hit or miss for $10/kid.
Andy Cross
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