Eight-year-old Liberty Bridger of Fort Meade didn’t build a castle but stuck with the royal theme when she used tiny blocks to create a princess with brown hair that matched her own. On a recent Saturday morning at Port Discovery, several kids worked with parents and grandparents on their designs. “Kids and parents love creative building,” says Cathy Hamaker, exhibit developer at the Indianapolis museum, noting that they “build some fantastic and elaborate stuff.” The exhibit, which is traveling around the United States, will be at Port Discovery through September 20.įor older kids, the most popular part of the exhibit is the building workshop. The Lego exhibition was created in a joint effort between the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and Lego workshops in the United States and the Czech Republic, in Eastern Europe. (You can read the story Adam wrote about his castle at Ask a parent before going online.)Ī big dragon made of bricks is part of the “Lego Castle Adventures” exhibition. When he was 13, Adam designed and built a kingdom that took over his bedroom and that went on to win a Lego contest that attracted hundreds of entries.Īdam’s kingdom includes jousting knights, gardening ladies, a tax collector and an invading army approaching the castle. One of them is Castle Dushgree, created by an Ohio boy named Adam Hansen. Some master builders might find inspiration in the four complicated Lego castles on display. While toddlers and preschoolers try jousting on play horses and piecing together plastic bricks, kids older than 7 work as “master builders” who design castles on a computer, test various defenses and create fortresses. But the real fun is in what you can design and build yourself. Lego designers have used thousands of tiny bricks to build 6-foot knights and an even taller “baby” dragon. Kids can design, build and test defenses of castles equipped with secret passages, throne rooms and crown jewels. That’s the challenge in “Lego Castle Adventure,” an exhibit now commanding the top floor of Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore. Want to design and build your own castle?
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