April Lego Club

Thanks to everyone for another successful lego club!! Thanks to all the parents for your help!!
Hope everyone had a good time building their race cars and kitties!
Here are some pictures!!

How to Start a Lego Club

I wanted to write a small note about how we got started. I was reading the Family Fun Magazine and saw an aritcle for the Lego Build of the Month. Family fun was teaming up with Lego and offers 2-3 ideas each month. I thought, "How Cool". My kids love building legos!! I sent out an email to my friends and tried to see who would be interested in participating in a lego club and I got a yes from all my friends!! At that point I had about 25 kids!! I contacted the local librarian to see if we could hold a meeting there. Carol the librarian was so helpful! We do not have to rent the room and the assistant librarian even donated a large box of legos to us!! We advertised in the library newsletter and after seeing the space we would be in, I expanded the club to 30 kids! Our first meeting most of the parents stayed and helped! It was wonderful! With such a large group I definitely needed the extra hands!!  I set the dues for each meeting at $10.00 so each kid can make something that they get to take home. The lego webiste has many ideas for each month to build and there are some sites I listed on the blog who also have old intructions and sets to get some more ideas!!
Each build varies from $4-6 dollars. I make treat bags for each theme we build so I use the money we have left to buy treats for each child! I also decided to recognize each child who has a birthday and I have been purchasing small lego set for them $5-6 dollars!!

I have a few siblings who are under 4 so I take my duplo legos to the meetings and I purchase a small duplo set for each of those kids! I have found some cute sets like zoo and farm animals!!

I also try to do some games at each meeting. I am trying to do something educational but not boring!
This month I have asked the librarian to give me a list of books that go with our theme!! I am going to list them in the small newsletter I give out at each meeting!!
If you are interested in starting a lego club feel free to contact me!!

I found these goodies at Joann Fabrics. I am putting these in the bags for the girls!

There is a bank, pencil case, note pad, stamper, markers, backpack clip, lip gloss, tatoo and lollipop.

I also printed off some coloring pages for each of the girls.

This is the lego set the girls are going to build.

These are the treat bags I made for the girls this month!!

I used my cricut to make the letters and Hello Kitty image!

I found 4 different types of racecars. Each boy will build one set!!

We are celebrating Cole S, Kyle S, Constantine and Brian R's Birthdays!!

April Lego Club

Here is a pic of the favor bags I made for the April lego club. I found these bags at 5 Below!!

I used my cricut to cut 1 1/2 inch circles to make it look like a lego block! I bought scrapbooking foam dots to make the circles stick out a little further!

Newspaper
A team member from The York Dispatch will be at our next club meeting to take some photos of us!!
The boys are going to build some race cars and the girls are going to build a Hello Kitty Model!
We are going to talk about Earth Day!
We will play some Earth Day Trivia and if we have have enough time, BINGO!
We will also be playing a guessing game where we will have 3 containers filled with Legos and the
person who guesses the closest to the actual number of bricks will win that container!!
Looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting!
Remember no snack this month!