Merry Christmas from Kids Bricks

In the spirit of the season, my kids worked on some fun Christmas builds to celebrate.

Enjoy!

An Elf on the Shelf alongside a snow globe

Wishing you and your families a merry Christmas and a happy New Year – may your 2023 be filled with creativity and fun.

Guitar Guy’s House

After my son built an evil ninja’s lair from his minifigure pick, my daughter took up the challenge to build a house for the character that she selected and dubbed “Guitar Guy”:

Yes, I know he’s holding a lute, but the name “Guitar Guy” stuck.

Since Guitar Guy’s defining feature is his guitar, the house my daughter built was themed along those lines. She built a multi-storey abode designed to look like a guitar – body, neck, and all.

I really love how this turned out!

Here’s a closer look at the house from the bottom up to the top:

Delivery driver out front with a cart full of packages

Guitar Guy’s well-appointed bedroom

Study with desk, chair, and pot plant in the corner

A couple friends enjoying coffee on the deck

Kitchen with fridge and oven

A lonely dining room

Chilli Girl catching up on Netflix in the TV room

Guitar Guy hanging out in his rooftop garden

Just a great build all around – I’m really proud of her work on this one.

An Evil Ninja’s Lair

We had some fun recently, with both kids picking a mini figure out of a hat and then building an appropriate home for it. Here is my son’s work after selecting this Ninjago figure:

My son decided this was an evil ninja (although I think Ninjago canon says this is actually a good guy named Cole) and that he needed a lair suitable for his needs. Here is an overall look at it before we dive into some of the neat features:

There’s a lot going on in this build, so here’s a breakdown:

An external look at the lair itself

A look inside

His ship parked and ready for action

The landing pad for his ship (“sh” is short for “ship”)

Working on his laptop – no doubt crafting more evil plans

Every evil villain needs a bookcase to study new villainy

And finally, the build has some moving parts, so here are a couple of GIFs illustrating how they work.

Firstly, the entrance booms:

And then the feature that all evil lairs need – a roof-mounted “mega weapon”:

This was a really fun build and using the mini figure pick as a way of generating a build idea was great. It was inspired by watching LEGO Masters, and I’m stoked with the creativity that it inspired. My daughter built something even bigger, which took her a long time to complete, so that’s coming soon!

Some More Micro Builds

Some more small builds once again inspired by suggestions from Brickit – some fun little ones that I think came together quite well.

A bat

Baby elephant spraying water

A simple couch

Duck on a couch

A character from Among Us

Robot

My daughter is currently hard at work on a pretty cool project of her own design, and we received our first build request – very exciting for the kids! Those will be published soon, but if you want to suggest some builds in the meantime, then please do so from this form.