Awesome LEGO Link!

I posted my Wordless Wednesday-Our Lovely LEGO Creations last week and I know that many families LOVE LEGO like our family!  Besides the fact that they get all over the floor and they hurt like C.R.A.Z.Y. when you step on them, LEGOs are really great classic toys that help encourage imagination and fun for all ages!

I am grateful for the member on the Workbox Yahoo group (I'm also a member of the Catholic Workbox Yahoo group)  who shared this link that has LEGO building instructions for Easy, Intermediate, and Hard Levels.
http://creative.lego.com/en-us/Familytime/buildinginstructions/BuildingInstructionsmonthly.aspx?month=August&year=2010

Here is the finished LEGO fish from the Easy Level in the August 2010 Archives:  Cute huh?

There are instructions for each month of the 2009 and 2010 years and each month includes instructions for the 3 different levels!

I know that my children don't always have the EXACT types/color of LEGOs that the instructions call for, but that's OK because they get creative and build with what they do have and they have come up with some wonderful creations using the instructions as a guide.

I feel like I hit the "LEGO jackpot" because I know these fun LEGO activities will keep my children entertained for awhile!  So after I printed out the different creations, I put them in page protectors and I will place them in a binder so I can keep the instructions all together in one place.  Then I can easily take them out of the binder and slip them in my children's workboxes for our homeschool.  Here are a few that I have already printed out and put in page protectors: 

Children (and adults) can build a fish, watermelon, turtle, robot, school bus, lion, lioness, lion cub, globe, ice cream cone, clown, etc. etc. etc.  There are lots of fun creations to make!

For some time now I have been searching the LEGO website, knowing that somewhere there were LEGO building instructions for children in their archives, but I could not find them for some reason.

FYI:  After I saw the link from the Workbox Yahoo group, I went back to the LEGO site homepage and wrote down what to click to eventually get to the building instruction link.  It's not very easy to locate the instructions if you don't know what you are looking for (at least it wasn't an easy find for me) so I thought I would list them here for easy reference:

Go to LEGO homepage
Click on "Products"
Click on the 2nd "Products" page until you see "Bricks & More" at the bottom
Click on "Bricks & More"
Click on "Family Time"
Click on "Building Instructions"
Click on "Monthly Building Instructions"

Now I see why I had so much trouble finding the instructions :)

Anyway, I hope you find the LEGO links and this post as useful and as fun as we have!

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