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Earlier this week, we challenged you to build a treehouse. Maybe yours had secret rooms. Maybe it had a rope bridge, a zipline, or a lookout tower. Or maybe it looked nothing like a real treehouse at all. That’s the beauty of open-ended building. A pile of LEGO bricks doesn’t just become a model—it becomes…
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What’s the Goal of Family Rules? Obedience? Or teaching your kids how to make good decisions for themselves? As parents, it’s easy to think of ourselves as the rule-makers. After all, we’re the adults in the room. But have you ever stopped to ask what those rules are really supposed to accomplish? Are they simply…
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When parents ask me how to organize their child’s LEGO collection, one of the first questions that comes up is: Should we sort by color? At first, it sounds like the obvious choice. There are far fewer LEGO colors than there are different part types, so sorting by color feels simple and manageable. But here’s…
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You walk into the kitchen fifteen minutes before dinner… …and the entire table is covered with LEGO. Instruction booklets. Tiny colorful bricks. Half-finished spaceships. A minifigure smiling proudly from the middle of the chaos. Sound familiar? It might be tempting to decide that the dinner table and LEGO simply don’t mix. But maybe the dinner…
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Treehouse:“If you could sleep in your treehouse for one night, what special features would you add?” Maybe it has secret rooms, rope bridges, a zipline, a lookout tower, or even a hidden treasure chest. Let your imagination go wild! 🧱 Parts to Gather Bonus Challenge: Can your treehouse have three different levels?
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If you’ve ever taken your family to a LEGO fan convention, you’ve probably found yourself staring at enormous castles, towering spaceships, and entire cities built from hundreds of thousands of bricks. There are often giant Great Ball Contraptions—motorized chains of LEGO machines that pass little orange or white balls from one invention to the next…
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Every family has little victories worth celebrating. 🧱 Maybe someone finished a set. Maybe you built something together. Maybe you finally sorted that one bin. Maybe cleanup happened without any reminders. 😄 What’s one LEGO win your family had this week?
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How did this week’s building challenge go? Did your family build a beach? A pirate ship? A swimming pool? A submarine? Or did life simply get busy? That’s okay. At Brick Surfers, the goal isn’t to finish every challenge. It’s to create opportunities to build together whenever you can. Even 15 minutes spent imagining, laughing,…
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The Impending Mess Every parent has a mental movie that plays out when their child asks, “Can I get the LEGO out?” You’re probably not imagining the next thirty minutes of happy building. You’re imagining what happens afterward. The bricks on the floor. The half-finished spaceship. The cleanup battle. The barefoot trip through the living…
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Besides accidentally stepping on LEGO pieces at home (which I definitely do not recommend), the first time I ever heard of someone intentionally walking across LEGO bricks was at a fundraiser. The organizer explained that they had created a long path of LEGO pieces. Participants would walk across it—either barefoot or in socks—and the farther…
