At the beginning of the summer we went to the Lego Brickworld Convention and saw some awesome things built with Legos. I wrote two other posts about the convention. I had written up a draft about this convention and forgot to post this one.
We went to the Lego Brickworld Convention a couple
weekends ago and I wanted to show you some of the fun things we saw!
The first post about this is here.
One of the most fun part for the kids were two areas set up just to play with Legos. They had two huge tables full with regular size gray Legos and then an area on the floor for Duplos. Daria and her cousins spent about an hour just playing in this area.
The Lego mosaics were on of my favorite types of Lego projects to see. There was a wide variety of these mosaics, built with flat Lego pieces.
Do you recognize this artwork by George Seurat?
This is a close-up so you can see the type of Legos used to build the mosaic.
And how about this one? Do you recognize Charles Demuth's The Figure 5. Awesome!
Those faces are superb!
A Lego house inspired by Piet Mondrian
Silly rabbit!
Magritte mosaic, astronaut, and I think Star Wars... (I don't know.. there were a lot of projects like this, but I'm not really into them, but they were impressively large and intricate!)
Lego superman, doggie, Batman and Alvin & the Chipmunks
Last weekend we went to the Lego Brickworld Convention in Schaumburg, IL. My husband Andrew is an avid Lego collector and builder. We made the trip with Daria to see the Lego convention exhibits. As an art teacher, I found some very interesting displays! It was really great to see all the kids engaged in building and designing their own Lego exhibits. Such a better hobby than sitting and watching TV or playing with video games (not that there's not a place for that either, but moderation, right?) Many of the exhibits were built by adult Lego groups and others with parents and their kids. All of the designs were original, not built from kits.
We took so many pictures and I tried to cull them down to my favorites. I split up the pictures into 3 blog posts.
This is a model of the capitol building in Madison that my husband designed and built for the show. Isn't it great?
There were a lot of awesome city scenes built with Legos. I found the Dunkin' Donuts!
Of course I found the Starbucks also!
There were a lot of fun little pieces within larger scenes. I love the mermaid in the fountain.
This was part of a huge interconnected piece that went around the entire table. There were little soccer balls that moved throughout the parts. This was a giant ferris wheel type thing where the soccer balls went around until they moved to the next piece.
Daria and her cousins were fascinated by the Lego trains.
