Make Your Own Lego Ornaments With These Free Instruction Booklets

October 30, 2015 by Shellie Wilson 2 Comments

Let the kids loose this Holiday season with these festive Christmas Lego Decorations. The printable Lego building guide is available for free. Each guide comes with complete instructions just like a normal Lego Manual. These Lego Christmas Ornaments would be great for gift giving too.

Lego Christmas Building Guide (note there are multiple years you can click through at this link)

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Robyn says
September 26, 2021 at 7:55 pm
Where are the instructions for the train?
Sarah White says
September 29, 2021 at 6:33 pm
There are several years of patterns but it looks like that one is here: https://www.chrismcveigh.com/cm/building_guides_-_holiday_2016.html

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Fall Sensory Ideas for Kids

A few years ago I shared some pumpkin themed sensory activities for kids, but I wanted to get a little more general and do some fall sensory ideas that can take you from Halloween al the way to Thanksgiving.

Playdough is a classic sensory activity, especially if kids can help make it, too. These playdough recipes from The Montessori Twin Mama are fall colored and scented with cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and apple pie spice (I honestly don’t know what the difference is!). Or try this fun maple playdough from Happy Toddler Playtime.

Throw together some cookie cutters, googly eyes and other fun things to make an easy fall playdough tray (similar to what I did on this Halloween playdough activity).

How about some fall themed slime? Natural Beach Living gave a basic slime recipe a fall twist with food coloring and glitter. Leaf shaped sequins make it even more fun. Little Bins for Little Hands also has a cinnamon slime, which is great for fall but can also carry you all the way through Christmas.

Raising Wild Things Sensory has some great easy to make fall themed sensory bottles, which you can add fall things to, or pompoms or whatever kind of I spy items you might want to include. They also have a fun apple moon sand sensory bin that has me wondering if you could add something scented to moon sand (I always hated the smell!).

And of course there are all kinds of sensory bins you can make for fall. I like this apple picking one from Happy Toddler Playtime that uses fake leaves and little apple toys. It has the added challenge of trying to pick the apples up through a mesh of branches — kind of like a low-tech game of Operation!

You can also do a short-lived sensory bin with real leaves, or use any kind of beans, brown rice, oats or lentils to make your base. Some more great ideas can be found at Fab Everyday. Their post includes some specific Halloween and Thanksgiving themed sensory bins, too.

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