Build a Creature!

How to use this activity with your own learners:

Build a creature activity 3 - from Curious Lighthouse
  1. Hand out the same six bricks to each of your learners.

  2. Instruct them to 'Build a Creature.' (Give no other instructions.)

  3. Once everyone has built their creatures ask them to share what their creature is.  (Depending on the size of the group, get them in pairs, groups or simply go around the room.)

  4. DEBRIEF as a group - use different questions to hone in on what you want the activity to achieve, such as:

    • ​Who built a duck and why? (The bricks lend themselves to the look of a duck, so it's the easiest option.  Link this to discussions about when given instructions our brain often takes the quicker route to an answer based on past experience... Those who created a different creature have a different filter.  This filter could range anywhere from creativity to rebellious!

    • Who had the most creative creature? (Let the team decide and link to a discussion about what makes it 'creative'. 

Get more ideas for using LEGO in with your learners

​‘Training activities that support LSP methodology’ is an 80-page digital download eGuide with a range of different activities all using construction bricks to use as discussion starters or embedding learning. 

There are 26 purposeful activities all with design considerations, timings, workshop preparation, step-by-step walk through, and suggestions for debrief, so you can run, or adapt to suit your own learners and the needs of your session.

Training Activities that Support ​LEGO® Serious Play® Methodology​ (Digital Download).
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As a trainer, facilitator, coach, or educator, you’ll know the value in having engaging activities for different learners to help engage them and focus on the key takeaways.  ​This digital download, ‘Training activities that support LSP methodology’ is an 80-page eGuide with a range of different activities all using construction bricks to use as discussion starters or embedding learning. 

Training activities that support LSP methodology (An 80-page Digital Download)

There are 26 purposeful activities all with design considerations, timings, workshop preparation, step-by-step walk through, and suggestions for debrief, so you can run, or adapt to suit your own learners and the needs of your session.​

  1. What is LSP (A brief overview)

  2. Activities for Introductions and Icebreakers

  3. Activities for Communication skills

  4. Activities for Team Dynamics

  5. Other stuff! (Build a business case, which bricks to use, the importance of the debrief, and FAQs.

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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Open-source guidelines made available by the LEGO Group under a Creative Commons licence.