Hello, hello, hello! Glad you’re back to see what’s behind Door #6 today of our Lego City Advent Calendar! 🙂
Here it comes…are you ready?
Here are the pieces we have to put together…
I do believe it’s a radio controlled toy boat! That would be fun, wouldn’t it?
Let me know if you think it’s something different. 🙂
See you tomorrow! 🙂
We’re back and ready for Day #5 of our Lego City advent Calendar! Here’s the door…
Let’s see what we have for today!
Yay! Another friend! 🙂
Putting the pieces together and we get this!
She is all set for some snow skiing! And our fella is happy to have someone to hang out with! I bet they are talking about how much snow there is. 😉
Don’t forget to hop back on here tomorrow for Door #6! 🙂
Aaannnd we are back for the next exciting door opening with our Lego City advent calendar! 😉 It’s Day #4!
Ready?
Whoa! It looks like a skateboard and a helmet!
Just pop the 2 sets of wheels on and you are ready to go!
Now our guy that we found on the first day can choose between a snowboard and a skateboard! I think he’s pretty happy about that. He looks happy, doesn’t he? 😉
That was pretty quick and easy! Check back again tomorrow for some more fun!
Hello again! Are you ready to peek behind the next door?
Here we go!
Awwww! 🙂 Here are the pieces for today.
There’s not much “putting together” to be done today, but isn’t this puppy adorable? He looks very much like our dog!
There’s a rug on the box background that our puppy looks quite comfortable on. 🙂 And he shouldn’t be hungry any time soon with 2 bones to eat.
That’s it for today! See you tomorrow! 🙂
Welcome back to Lego advent calendar day #2!
Opening door #2…the suspense is building! Ta dah!
These Lego pieces are included in today’s cubbyhole.
So I got it put together but I’m not sure what to call it. Is it a drill maybe? My husband says maybe it’s a post hole digger or a machine used to break up concrete? Hmm… What do you think?
And now it’s added to our Christmas scene. 🙂
Very fun! See you tomorrow for door #3! 🙂
Wow, I can’t believe its been such a long time since I posted! The days are flying by so quickly! We’ve had a run of health problems here and even though I wanted to post, the time just got away from me! So…I hope I can get back into the swing of sharing some fun ideas with you! 🙂
For the last 2 years, we have done a Lego Advent calendar here together and it’s that time again! Whoohoo! Lego Advent calendars are such fun and give you and the kids a little something to look forward to each day of December. In case you’ve never done an advent calendar, this one comes in a colorful box that has little doors and you open one door each day of December through the 24th. Inside each door is a tiny surprise Lego set to put together. (My apologies that the first day is getting posted so late, but we were gone all day today.) But let’s get the fun started!
This year I decided to go with the Lego City Advent calendar. Here’s a couple pictures of the box…the front…
The back side…
Then there is a flap that lays down to create a background for all the fun little Lego sets we will discover as we go along.
It’s time to open door #1!
Drum roll please! Ooo, what do we have here?!
It’s a cute little guy with his snowboard and helmet!
You can swap his hair for his helmet and he’s ready to go snowboarding!
That’s a great start to this year’s Lego City advent calendar! Be sure to check back tomorrow for the grand opening of door #2! 🙂
Halloween is almost here! Have you gone trick or treating? Have you been to a Halloween parade or party? Have you laughed at any Halloween riddles? We can definitely help you with the Halloween riddles! Here’s some spooky jokes that will be sure to tickle your funny bone!
#1.) Why do ghosts never lie?
Answer: Because you can see right through them!
#2.) What kind of music do mummies like?
Answer: Wrap music!
#3.) What do you call a skeleton who sleeps all day?
Answer: Lazybones!
#4.) What fruit does Dracula like?
Answer: Neck-tarines!
#5.) What musical instrument do skeletons play?
Answer: A trom-bone!
#6.) What kind of pants do ghosts wear?
Answer: BOO jeans!
#7.) How do you fix a broken jack-o-lantern?
Answer: With a pumpkin patch!
#8.) How are vampires like false teeth?
Answer: They both come out at night!
#9.) What do you call a ghost that gets too close to a fire?
Answer: A toasty ghosty!
#10.) When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
Answer: When you are a mouse!
I hope you share some of these funny Halloween riddles with someone else and they make someone else smile too! Have a great Halloween! 🙂
Calling all Dungeons & Dragons and LEGO fans! There’s a new minifigures series available! I spotted this one at our local Barnes & Noble store! They are also available for purchase online through the LEGO website.
Let me confess right up front that I know very little about Dungeons and Dragons. But I do know some of our grandkids play and so these minifigures are very cool to me! haha! Here’s the whole gang that is available in this LEGO minifigures set: (Picture copied from the LEGO website)
Don’t they look pretty cool?! Here’s a little closer look at the characters offered. (Pictures copied from the LEGO website)
I bought one package today and here is what I found inside:
I believe this is a Gith Warlock. 🙂
You will also find a sheet with the pictures of each character that is available so you can check each one off as you collect it.
Looks like another fun minifigure series from LEGO! Have fun collecting! 🙂
I just came across the Crayola Education Facebook page and saw that they will be hosting a fun online event for kids! It centers around the book “Hello, I’m a Quokka” and it’s happening tomorrow, September 4, 2024 at 7:00pm Eastern.
https://www.facebook.com/share/tH9joUSLsMa1Kw8J/?mibextid=9l3rBW
If you can’t make it at that specific time, the event will be recorded and you can find it later on the Crayola Education Facebook page or YouTube page later.
I’ve never seen a Quokka in person but wow, they are cute! They look like they are always smiling! Should be a fun event for families! 😃
Here’s a picture from the Facebook page…
The days of summer are slowly coming to an end, though the temperatures here this week have felt very warm! Let’s take a walk in nature together and see what fun things we can find. I call this “finding joy in nature and in the simple free things in life”. If you have a camera or a cell phone with a camera, take some pictures of the interesting things you find. Kids love to take pictures of special things. 🙂 I’ll show you some of the cool things I found on my walks in nature lately.
It can be fun to see how many different colors of wild flowers or weed flowers you can find. Here is a light blue flower that grows along the roadside where we live.
You can also make a note of what size the flowers are that you see. For instance, these little yellow flowers are very small.
While the yellow flowers on this plant are quite large.
Here we have a little feather that I almost missed seeing, but look how pretty and soft it is!
This is a dandelion whose days of being yellow are gone and all that’s left are the seeds. But look how pretty and perfect it looks! Some people call these “wish flowers” because they pick the flower, make a wish and then blow all the seeds and their wishes into the air.
These tiny, tiny pink flowers are on a weed, but they are so delicate and pretty!
We even found a little friend hopping through the grass!
We added another color of flower to our list when we found this purple weed!
And who do we have here? Why hello, there, little caterpillar! You can make up a story about where the caterpillar came from and where he is heading now. Why is he running so quickly through the grass? 🙂
These flowers were also growing along the roadside but they look very much like the Black-eyed Susans that are growing in my flowerbed.
Keep an eye out for butterflies! We have lots of these little ones flying around our house. I think this might be a Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly. So pretty!
You never know when you might spot a man raking hay… 😉
Taking a walk in nature can be so refreshing and calming and gets you away from screen time and gives you quality time together. You can take it a step further and print out your pictures and make a scrapbook together. I hope you’ll take a few minutes out of your busy last-of-summer days and enjoy some time outside. 🙂
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