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Tips and hacks to ensure a great time at LEGOLAND Water Park. Know what to bring, what to wear and what to do - for the whole family.

Have The Most Awesome Time at LEGOLAND Water Park With These 10 Tips

Have you found your "happy place"? The location you go with your family to make memories and have fun? Head to LEGOLAND Water Park and use these 10 tips! (Thank you LEGOLAND Florida Resort for having us visit for the day. LEGOLAND Florida Resort provided us the tickets, but the opinions are 100% View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Parenting, Reviews

Don't miss the latest press release from LEGOLAND® Florida Resort - announcing the future opening of NINJAGO® World!

LEGO® NINJAGO® World at LEGOLAND® Florida Resort

This is the latest press release from LEGOLAND® Florida Resort. This announcement is incredibly awesome for NINJAGO® fans, young and old!  Become the Ninja When LEGO® NINJAGO® World Opens Jan. 12, 2017 at LEGOLAND® Florida Resort Groundbreaking Interactive Ride to Highlight Immersive New Theme View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews

Making your own LEGO minifigure and brick candy is perfect as party favors or decorations for a LEGO party. Click for complete directions.

How to Make The Most Delicious LEGO Candy

Creating beautiful and delicious things doesn't have to cost a lot or take a long time to make. This LEGO candy was quick, easy and oh so delicious! You should have seen Jordan's eyes light up like a Christmas tree when I walked through the door with a big bag of Jolly Ranchers and announced that View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Life Style

Over 500 fun Pokemon templates and patterns for pixel art. Perfect for LEGO building inspiration for tweens and teens.

Over 500 of the Best Ideas For Pokemon LEGO Pixel Art

The summer is coming to an end, rather quickly. We checked most of the things off our summer bucket list, and we had a blast doing so. The kids are slowly, ever so slowly starting to climb the walls. Now even the toddler has learned to say: “what are we going to do today? I am bored!” I smile and View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Perler

Everything is Awesome With a LEGO Bathroom

Everything is awesome when you have a LEGO decorated bathroom. This is every LEGO-loving child's dream bathroom! They will WANT to wash their hands! The kids came running towards me, their arms stretched out, ready for a big hug upon landing. "Mama, THANK YOU SO MUCH" - I wasn't quite sure WHAT View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Life Style, Potty Training Tagged With: LEGO, Pin THIS!

"Our kids were beaming with pride, they had found their calling in life" - or so they thought. Click to read more - it is adorable.

Our Kids Have Found Their Calling in Life – Or So They Think

Thank you, LEGO® for sending us “Clay’s Rumble Blade” in return for our honest feedback and review. Spoiler alert: The kids LOVED it! - But then again, I have yet to find a LEGO® set that they don’t love! Our Kids Found Their Calling in Life Nap time! The most sacred time of day for parents View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews

Play your way to more creativity. Tips and ideas from LEGO for adults and children to become more creative.

Play Your Way To More Creativity

Pinterest moms, we all know one or two in our circle of friends, right? They are able to effortlessly make a school lunch look like a work of art, and they know every stain-removing trick in the book. These women are creative ninjas, and yes, I must admit I wish I was more like them. They make View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews

How to make a classic Ghostbusters LEGO pixel mosaic art. LEGO brick art is a great craft for adults and kids alike.

How to Make a Classic Ghostbusters LEGO Mosaic Pixel Art

Family movie night is a great idea - in theory only. Once you actually sit down with all the kids, it becomes a management and logistical nightmare trying to please every age group and interest represented. Which is exactly the situation we were in last weekend. I was in the kitchen making the View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Our Life

How to Safely Play Pokemon GO at LEGOLAND Florida Resort. Safety Guidelines for all the Pokemon GO players and LEGO fans.

How to Safely Play Pokemon GO at LEGOLAND Florida Resort

Pokémon GO is taking the country galaxy by storm. Everywhere you turn, kids, tweens and millenials are aimlessly walking around, pointing their smart devices at invisible friends and objects. As the world adjusts to the latest fad, public landmarks and private property alike are swarmed by the View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews

50 awesome ways to have fun this summer! Our bucket list items are both realistic, well-balanced between structure and free-play. This list is a motherhood win.

50 Awesome Ways To Have Fun This Summer

The late afternoon sun is beating down on my face. I am soaking up the warmth, taking in the sounds all around me. The kids are playing nicely (not quietly) in the backyard, while I am relaxing after a full day of memory-making fun. This is my first summer as a stay-at-home mom. The magnitude of View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Motherhood, Our Life, Summer

How to create, play and have fun with LEGO DUPLO. Lots of inspiration to learn and enjoy free-play with your child. Hands-on learning tips.

How to Create, Play and Have Fun with LEGO DUPLO

I am SURE you have been in this situation several times if your kids love LEGO DUPLO like ours do. Here we are, on the floor of their room, surrounded by a sea of red, blue and yellow LEGO DUPLO bricks. Jansen (4), Jonah (2) and I, in-between incomplete sets, half assembled buildings and View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Reviews

Upcycle an old glass into an awesome LEGO vase. This is a great STEM project for preschool and elementary school children.

How to Upcycle an Old Glass Into an Awesome LEGO Vase

“What is THIS? The things hanging from this plant?” Jansen was holding up a yellow DUPLO brick with a picture of a potato plant. His little forehead wrinkled, with an inquisitive look in his brown eyes. He titled his head to the side and looked at the brick, then at me and then back to the brick… View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Reviews

The Special Needs Family's Guide to LEGOLAND. A personalized approach to making your vacation a reality and a success.

The Special Needs Family’s Guide to LEGOLAND

You have a child with special needs, your day is filled with medical jargon and concerns. “Vacation” means something very different to you than it does to your friends. You travel with luggage no family should ever have to tote around, but after years of doing it - you are a pro. You manage the View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Special Needs

Look at the awesomeness that happens when Disney joins forces with LEGO and create Minifigures! These Disney LEGO Minifigures are in stores May 1, 2016

Disney and LEGO Create an Incredible Line-Up of MiniFigures

“MAMA! I got it! I FINALLY got IT!” That squeal, the exclamation and ensuing excitement can mean a number of things in our house! Either someone, caught a PigMan in Minecraft (or whatever is necessary to achieve the next level of greatness in the game that baffles me.) found their View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews

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