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How to Make an Awesome LEGO Shadow Box

How to Make an Awesome LEGO Shadow Box Looking for a simple way to make a LEGO Shadow Box? You're about to fall head over heels with this easy craft! Our two youngest share a bedroom and OF COURSE, their room is decorated with LEGO everywhere. Their LEGO room was a lot of fun to put together, View Post

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Ways to Find the Best LEGO Deals

12 Genius Ways to Find the Best LEGO Deals

12 Genius Ways Find the Best LEGO Deals I am sure every mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, or uncle of a LEGO-loving child is constantly on the hunt for ways the best deals on LEGO. Have you ever added up how much you spend on LEGO? (Don't... don't add it up, you won't like the number!) Over the View Post

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How to make the most awesome LEGO blanket. This blanket is an instant hit with children, adult fans of LEGO and kids with sensory processing issues.

How to Make The Most Awesome LEGO Blanket

How to Make the Most Awesome LEGO Blanket I hear the sound of eager little footsteps jumping down the stairs. The pitter-patter continues through the living room. I think “wait for it, wait for it…” - as expected, like clockwork, Jordan enters the room much more stealth-like than his descent down View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Popular

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How to Make a LEGO Minifigure Display Shelf

How to Make a LEGO Minifigure Display Shelf Our house is drowning in LEGO Minifigures. I am constantly finding yellow heads in our laundry, little body-less plastic pants in our beds, and tiny swords get sucked up by the vacuum cleaner weekly. We are slowly being invaded by these little quirky View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Life Style Tagged With: Danish, DIY, LEGO, Pin THIS!

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How to Make the Most Awesome LEGO Wreath

How to Make the Most Awesome LEGO Wreath I am wide awake while everyone around me is happily snoring. My mind is racing a million miles an hour. I have a love/ hate relationship with my brain when this happens. There is an idea brewing in my head and it just won’t stop nagging me. I MUST CREATE! I View Post

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LEGO desserts for LEGO birthday parties. Celebrate in great LEGO style with these fun brick inspired desserts. LEGO cakes, LEGO treats, LEGO desserts, LEGO party food. #LEGOMom #LEGO #LEGOParty #LEGODesserts #LEGOCakes #LEGOCandy #MamaintheNow

The Most Deliciously Awesome LEGO Desserts

The Most Deliciously Awesome LEGO Desserts If you have a LEGO lover in your house, you need these LEGO desserts. Too cute to pass up, but not too cute to eat!  I don't know about you, but LEGO in our household is a big deal - actually LEGO is LIFE in our house, it's that simple! While View Post

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Creative LEGO crafts for kids of all ages. Creative craft ideas using LEGO. Create with LEGO. #LEGO #LEGOFun #LEGOCrafts #LEGOIdeas #CraftsforKids #MamaintheNow

The Most Brilliant LEGO Crafts for Creative Kids

LEGO Crafts for Creative Kids of All Ages Parents and children of all ages know exactly what LEGO are. And with LEGO come the ability to make some truly amazing LEGO crafts. Some parents know the pain of LEGO personally from stepping on them in the middle of the night, while others may have fond View Post

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How to make an awesome LEGO Christmas wreath. LEGO Christmas decoration. LEGO Christmas stocking instructions. Decorate your home with Christmas LEGO decorations this year. This LEGO wreath can easily be adapted to any season. #MamaintheNow

How to Make an Awesome LEGO Christmas Wreath

DIY LEGO Christmas Wreath Instructions:  Happiness is combining two of your favorite things: making wreaths and creating with LEGO. We recently moved across the country, from Florida to Washington State. In order to squeeze our earthly belongings into two pod containers, we had to make some tough View Post

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Best gifts for kids in the hospital. What do you buy a sick child in the hospital. Gift ideas for sick kids. Toy inspiration and ideas for children in the hospital. #GiftIdeas #GiftsforSickKids #GiftsforKidsintheHospital #GiftsforsickChildren #Toysforkidsinthehospital #CHDAwareness #Heartmom #HeartWarrior #MamaintheNow #ToyList

Best Gifts for Kids in the Hospital

*) The toys marked with a (*) were generously donated by the toy company in support of this toy drive benefitting the children in the CICU at Seattle Children’s Hospital. A heartfelt “THANK YOU” goes out to every donor, as they helped support my dream of brightening the lives of the children in the View Post

Filed Under: Gift Guides, Heart, LEGO, Parenting, Popular, Special Needs, Winter

LEGO gifts for kids who have a lot of LEGO. A mother of four LEGO-loving boys gives her best shopping ideas and gift inspiration when LEGO is on the wish list. #LEGO #LEGOGifts #GiftsforBoys #LEGOGiftsforBoys #GiftsforGirls #GiftsforKids #LEGOIdeas #GiftGuide #GiftIdeas #MamaintheNow

LEGO Gifts For Kids Who Have a Lot of LEGO!

I just finished our Christmas shopping for the kids! (I know, don’t hate me for it!) There were of course a lot of LEGO sets on the list, and with good reason. Our kids live and breathe LEGO. But what LEGO gifts do you buy kids who already have a lot of LEGO?!  Here are my favorite sets of the View Post

Filed Under: Gift Guides, LEGO, Life Style, Popular, Reviews, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Danish, Kids, LEGO, Mama's Quotes, review

What do you buy the LEGO nerd in your life? Not the child, but the Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL) - These gift ideas are sure to please the LEGO fan, child at heart in your life. Click to get inspiration and LEGO-inspired gift ideas.

The Most Awesome Gifts For Adult LEGO Fans

Do you have someone in your life like me? The person who grew up on the outside, but on the inside he’s stil a child! Get a gift for your adult LEGO fan! “Mama, you have been so busy buying our presents. What’s on your wish list?” The question was asked so sweetly by Jacob, as he offered to spend View Post

Filed Under: Gift Guides, LEGO, Life Style, Reviews, Winter

STEM Activities with LEGO. Learn math with LEGO, do science projects with LEGO, learn engineering with LEGO. STEM activities for young engineers. Learn with LEGO. #STEM #LEGO #Engineering #TeachingKids #TeachingChildren #LearningTools #LEGOMom #MamaintheNow #LearningActivities

13 LEGO STEM Activities for Young Engineers

13 STEM Activities with LEGO It’s no secret that we all love to play with LEGO.  And it’s also a well-known fact that LEGO is the ideal medium for experimenting and learning about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ("STEM").  We’ve collected some great activities for you and your builders to View Post

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12 Absolutely Fantastic Lego Ideas. Creative LEGO ideas, ways to use LEGO around the house. LEGO uses in the home. LEGO ideas for older kids. #LEGO #LEGOIdeas #LEGOMom #LEGOFun #AFOL #MamaintheNow

12 Absolutely Fantastic LEGO Ideas

12 Absolutely Fantastic LEGO Ideas I have yet to meet a person, be it a kid, or someone who use to be a kid, that does not love LEGO. With the exception of the piece that gets stepped on of course. However, that aside, kids of all ages have been building and playing with LEGO for pretty much ever. View Post

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60 fun LEGO facts to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the LEGO brick! The coolest toy ever created: LEGO! Learn little-known facts about LEGO, the LEGO Group and the LEGO bricks. LEGO trivial for the true diehard LEGO fan and AFOL. #LEGO #LEGOfacts #60thAnniversary #AFOL #FunFacts #LEGOMom #MamaintheNow

60 Fun LEGO Facts Every LEGO Fan Needs to Know

Thank you to the LEGO® Group for sending us a fantastic Anniversary box of LEGO bricks. The honest opinions stated in this post are 100% mine. 60 fun LEGO facts every LEGO fan needs to know Our kids had a BLAST building creatively with the bricks contained in the LEGO Anniversary box, while I View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Reviews

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