In this household, we love our Lego. Or, more accurately, the husband and the kids love their Lego, and I… love not accidentally stepping on any. Because, you know, OUCH.
But sometimes, having a lot of Lego can come in quite handy.
Here are two bible stories that we were able to bring to life with our Lego blocks and have a lot of fun learning too:
1. Joshua & the Walls of Jericho
This story is fairly straight-forward: God commanded the Israelites to march around the walled city of Jericho once a day for 6 days, with the priests blowing their horns. Then after marching around the city 7 times on the 7th day, Joshua commanded the people to SHOUT… and the walls came tumbling down.
~ Joshua 6:15, 20
2. Feeding the Five Thousand
It was DD’s idea to use his many many (many) Lego figurines to illustrate this parable. We had previously read this parable — where Jesus took just the lunch of 5 loaves and 2 fish of one little boy and fed the multitude — to Noey before but it was hard for him to grasp the concept of five thousand people.
We don’t have five thousand lego figurines. At least, I sincerely hope not! But we have enough DD took out enough from his stash to make the point. He even managed to rustle up 2 lego fish!
Wah that's a lot of Lego people!!!!!! Sean loves his Lego too though our collection is nowhere as big as yours!<br /><br />PS. Incidentally, one of his favourite pieces is the red plane you got for him for his first birthday – there are always at least 6 Lego folks sitting on it at any one time 😉
Wow!! so many figures! and the FISH! so impressed. i never even knew lego fish existed. :)<br /><br />great job on using them to make the bible stories come to life!
So fun and so useful for the story telling! We have 2 huge boxes of lego and very random pcs of built up stuff. and alot of wheels! Zzzz.
Woah. I wasn't expecting a wall that tall nor that many people. D's collection really makes my old one look paltry. *must not show J and K!*
@<a href="#c6505916991942594849" rel="nofollow">olimomok</a> yay, i'm glad he likes the plane! it was Noey's favourite for a long time too. we used about 50 mini figs that time, and i don't know that it's scratching the surface of what DD has!<br /><br />@<a href="#c6479625344149798030" rel="nofollow">lynklee</a> i know right? after he showed me the fish, i was half expecting him
There's this series of books where a guy used Lego to make biblical scenes. Think if you do a search on amazon, you should be able to find it. I chanced upon a copy at Waterstones when I was living in the UK several years back. Sounds like a book your family would love.
Great way to learn about the Bible Stories through play 🙂 No wonder it's great for cultivating imagination in kids.
@<a href="#c3944467343089077488" rel="nofollow">Chen Chen</a> Hi there! Thanks for dropping me a note! Do you mean <a href="http://www.thebricktestament.com/" rel="nofollow">The Brick Testament</a> or something like it? I love that site! I'd forgotten about it till you mentioned it. It would indeed be a good place to mine for ideas — thanks!<br /><br />@<a href="#c3024785234013211976" rel="
That's so lovely! You know, I saw a "lego" lunchbox the other day and actually thought of you guys 😉
Yes, Brick Testament! That's the book. Love the site too! =)