Chatterbox Review: LEGO Juniors

I was given the opportunity through House Party to be a "Chatterbox" for LEGO Juniors.  They sent us some LEGO sets to try out and review.  There was a smaller set and a larger set.  I decided to let Andy put the smaller set together while the older kids were at school so I could get a better picture of how easy it was for him to do on his own with out assistance (interference) from his siblings.

Andy was excited to be able to "read" the directions by himself and figure out how to put the digger together.  After he was finished, he kept taking it apart so he could put it back together again!  The car has a base that you put the other parts onto so it is faster and easier to get to the finished product.  I thought this was a really nice feature as it gave him a stable base to start with.

Once the other kids returned from school, I let them work on the Police station together.  The walls are preformed in one piece so that the set came together really quickly.  One thing that I found as a drawback to the floor base was that there weren't "bumps" in many places so the walls couldn't get put in very many places and they also tended to come off easily.  Playing on a non carpeted surface may have helped with this, too.  Overall, the kids LOVED the LEGO Juniors sets! 

Rest Time

Today, Andy wasn't too happy about having to stop playing with the "Big Guys" (aka, my Star Wars action figures) to have rest time.  I suggested that maybe the "Big Guys" could have rest time, too.....

"Make Me One, Mommy!"

I often hear that request when I make something new, whether tatted, knit, or something else! So after I finished my baby snake which I was planning on trying to sell, I decided that I would knit each of the kids a baby snake. I got out what I had in baby or sock yarn and let them pick which color they wanted. It took me 3 weeks and 1 day to get the 4 snakes done.

Sarah's

Emily's

William's

Andrew's

All of them together.

The bottom 3 are all made with the same brand, style, and size of yarn, but I had to leave out 15 rows from Andrew's snake to make it the same size!!

This shows the variety you get knitting with self-striping sock yarn! These are both from the same skein of yarn!

"Kevin"

I had been looking for a boy 18" doll for William. I found a doll the other day at Goodwill. I bought it and gave it to William. We named it "Kevin" as Sarah and Emily's doll of the same size are "Katie" and "Kita" respectively. (So I figured I'd stick with the "K" names!)























Here are some shots of his hair.

Here is what the doll looked like when I bought it:

Knit Snake

I found a pattern for a knit snake and decided to try him out.

The kids thought he was cute, but I didn't like the way the body just "dead-ended" into the head, the increases were odd, and I thought the head was too small.

So, I made up my own pattern!

side by side

Close up of the heads/necks

I thought maybe I could sell them at craft sales.

Showing off the snakes

Growing a Zoo

I'm still working on posting things from this summer!

We had some capsules that when you put them in water, "grow" an animal. We had 4 types and we've done 2 of them: Sea and Zoo/Jungle:

Sea:

Here are the little capsules.

In a bowl of water.

The capsules weren't dissolving very well, so we rubbed the foam animals to get the gel off of them faster.

Playing with the animals

Zoo/Jungle:

Because the bowl idea didn't work very well, we decided to put them in bottles of warm water and shake them.

This worked better!