Games and Challenges to Make with Lego

December 22, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Sometimes when the kids are home from school you need some little games and time fillers to keep them entertained while waiting for some event or something else is going on. Since most people seem to have a cache of Legos, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some Lego games and activities you can try with your kids.

The first thing I found was this post on minute to win it style games you can do with Lego bricks from Kids Craft Room (there’s a review of a Lego book at the top but just keep scrolling and you’ll find the ideas). One of my favorites is the chopstick challenge, where you have to pick up bricks from a pile and move them to another pile one at a time using chopsticks.

Another really cool idea that takes just a bit of prep is using Lego pieces to make sudoku challenges. I originally found this idea on a website that is not in English, but I did successfully download the printable game boards there if you want to give them a try. The pages use four colors of bricks and 2×2 grids that are partially filled in so kids can figure out what bricks go in the other spaces.

Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls has a version with 2×3 grids but instead of using a printable you design the game board then take a few bricks off and let the person playing solve it. You can make the board any size you like if you’re building it in this way as long as you follow the rules (all colors must be present in each section, and they don’t repeat across the same row or column).

This last one isn’t really a game but with the nations of the world posts that I’ve been doing I wanted to share it, too. I found this pin on Pinterest that doesn’t like to a website but its credited to Meredith Anderson of Momgineer but I’m not finding it on her website. Still you get the idea I think. Just pick some flags that have simple colors and designs and try to build them with bricks. Then you can also find those countries on the map or play a guessing game where other people try to figure out which flag was made.

Check out the kids craft section on Craftbits.com

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Learning Activities with Snap Cubes

A classic manipulative in the preschool and early elementary classroom is the snap cube, also known as math cubes, unifix cubes or unit cubes. These little one inch cubes often come in a set of 100 in 10 different colors, and they snap together so they’re easy to use for all sorts of math learning, measuring and more.

No Time for Flashcards has a cute robot printable to use with cubes to measure the height of each robot. That one is free but they also have other printable cube mats that are a paid resource.

Catherine & Co uses math cubes to teach kids about measuring volume. They make a letter from cubes and then measure the volume (there’s a printable worksheet in the post).

Pattern recognition is another fun and easy activity you can do with the cubes. You can use printables like these from Planning Playtime, or just make a pattern from cubes and have kids repeat it or figure out what comes next. There’s another good set of pattern printables at English Created Resources.

Because there are 10 sets of 10 cubes in a pack, these are great for teaching one to one correspondence, counting, sorting and basic addition and subtraction. English Created Resources has great printable number mats you can use to form the number from cubes and count out the number of cubes that corresponds to that number.

ParenTutor has a great collection of snap cube activity ideas, most of which are just pictures, but it’s work taking a look through the post for ideas for using them at home or in the classroom.

To give just a few of their examples, you can match linked blocks to the corresponding number of pieces, use blocks to find different ways to add up to 10, compare numbers and determine which one is more or less, skip counting and weighing different numbers of blocks.

You can also use unit cubes to learn letters, like with these super cute alphabet mats from Fun Learning for Kids. Kids can trace the letter, make it out of cubes and practice writing a word that starts with that letter.

Of course you can also use them to build things, since they are blocks, and there are tons of pattern mats on Teachers Pay Teachers. I also love these dinosaur themed mats from Lets Go to Learn on Etsy.

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