Sunday, April 17, 2011
Lego blocks and Super Glue
The boys are always wanting the elaborate Lego kits that have buildings or cars or space ships and the like. That's fine because they play with them alot, and it's a quiet toy though it has a million pieces. We have a rule that they must keep Legos upstairs in their room due to the choking hazard for the baby and the puppy. Jonas just got some Harry Potter Lego kits for his birthday. Now we have had Spongebob and the Krusty Krab and we have had numerous sets of Star Wars ships and some Indiana Jones sets, and they have all ended up the same way. I spend 30 minutes or more building this thing (because they are too small to decipher the directions exactly) and they play with it like a solid toy until someone drops it or they "crash" or something. That makes us all sad. I don't mind rebuilding a few times, but it gets old after a while. That's when I got an idea with the new birthday Lego sets, why not super glue them together? The boys like them because they are Lego, not because they want to build with them. They have tubs of basic Lego blocks that they can build with, but they really want the sets to stay together. I am not sad that I "ruined" the new sets. The boys will play with them much more that way than if they fell apart. As a matter of fact, I'm going to the store to get more glue and we're going to have a reconstruct and glue fest after they get out of school. All of the Lego sets will stay together, and because they have been apart for so long it will be like brand new toys. As bad as it sounds, I might even be able to play with my children without getting angry.
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Hey, if that's how they want to play with them, go for it.
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