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Intro to Architecture for Kids with Lego

By Jen

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At the end of the school year, my daughters brought home mountains of paper work from their classrooms. The pages were filled with drawings and stories. One particular sketch book drew my attention. As I was flipping through my youngest daughter’s sketchbook I noticed that most of the pages were filled with drawings of buildings. Page after page she had drawn buildings. The drawings were the all cross-sections  of buildings…you could see the busy activity going on inside. intro to architecture for kids with lego

Intro to Architecture for kids with Lego

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I have always known that my youngest loved houses. We used to have a bookcase specifically filled with doll houses (we called it her apartment building) where she would spend her days playing. My daughter has innate, undeniable love of buildings, houses, structures and architecture. To her, this is is simply how she chooses to play. As her mom I see this ever present passion and am always looking for learning opportunities. Enter a simple Lego game.architecture for kids on floor

First, I had my daughter find a famous building from anywhere in the world. Once she chose a building, she did a little online research about the building. We try and use our computer as an educational tool…as much as possible…computers are a powerful resource. After her research was complete the task was to build her own building, inspired by the famous one.architecture for kids

My daughter chose the White House…an interesting choice. She decided to focus on the colour of the building, or lack there of. We talked about the different ways that her structure similar to the White House. Her building is low and wide and has a state of the art security system (thus the keypad at the doorway). However, in one way her building is the complete opposite, a rainbow of colours. I loved her vision, her description of “The Colourful House” and her funny little sign. lego colourful house

This activity is a simple way to introduce architecture to kids. There is no “right” or “wrong” way to build. This isn’t about being accurate, this is all about learning about structures and being creative with what you have learned. I love child-directed activities, I find for my daughters they are always the most successful. We will come back to this same activity many, many more times this summer. Research another building, construct another building and talk about it. Learning through play…is there any better way to learn?

Here are a couple of our favourite books that introduce kids to architecture.

The Future Architect’s Handbook by Barbara Beck

Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures by Lee J.James

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty


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  1. Virginia Fynes says

    July 27, 2014 at 5:42 am

    Great idea! My little one is only 4 but she loves lego, I think this will be a great ‘game’ down the road!

  2. Steph says

    July 28, 2014 at 8:37 am

    What a great idea! I think this is one my hubby could really get behind too since he went to school for architecture. Very cool.

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