LEGO birthday Party

[Follows Closely]

This weekend my oldest daughter is turning 9, and is having a LEGO Birthday party. I am looking for some party games that involve LEGO. Has anyone played, or have any ideas of good LEGO party games?

Some examples:

Build Name Collage / Free Build

Each child will build their name using LEGO blocks on one large collage.

Build and Pass

A child will add one block to a creation and pass. This will continue until the creation is complete.

Great Tower Build

A bag containing blocks will be used to pick partners. Matching colors will determine teams. In sets of two, each team will attempt to build a tall tower. This event will be timed.

Hot LEGO

Hot potato with LEGO. Each child will have to add one block to the structure before passing.

Blind Build

Each child will attempt to build a set by looking at instructions, but not the blocks.

[davee123]

Racers

Less for girls, but build cars and race them down a ramp (you probably want a specialized ramp that will race multiple cars at a time). I've done this with some kids at an event-- it was fun, and an interesting challenge. You can also get kids to see whose travels the furthest, or whose can go the straightest or whatever.

Tower Topple

Each player takes turns adding one brick of their choice to a tower, which they then must balance without it falling over. Never tried this, but it's an idea.

Mosaics

If you've got enough of them, LEGO mosaic kits can be a fun activity. We've done these at a couple events, and it's pretty neat. Only caveat is that kids can build these at extremely different rates, so be prepared for some to finish early or late.

Lazy Slide

Each player/team builds a "thingy" out of LEGO. A minifig (or whatever) is dropped onto it. The minifig MUST slide, tumble, or fall all the way to the floor. The winner is whoever's minifig takes the longest to do so (no intervention while tumbling of course!) Never tried this either, but it sounds kinda fun.

Collaborative Creative Builds

Everyone builds (say) a small house, and everyone's houses are all placed into a gigantic town. Repeat with everyone building a car, a tree, or whatever, until you've got an impressive display that everyone's contributed to. They've done these at various LEGO events, although I've never really paid much attention to how the kids find it-- might be worth a try.

Collaborative Planned Builds

Similar to the mosaics that LEGO does at events, everyone builds a pre-planned section of something larger. A model, mosaic, or whatever. Then, at the end, everyone gets to behold the awesomeness. This can be pretty fun-- we even did this at our wedding with a large LEGO mosaic :)

DaveE

Edited November 5, 2010 by davee123

[Follows Closely]

Thanks Dave! I will be adding a Collaborative Planned Builds. My Daughter loves to build houses. I see a 12 story house in the works here.

[Follows Closely]

The party went well. The kids had a lot of fun. Here is a picture of the collaborative tower build.

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Edited November 8, 2010 by Follows Closely