News Bites - National Geographic Kids: Search Results

Friday, August 7, 2009

Giant LEGO Light Bulb

Posted By NG Kids

Photo: Kids build blocks for the LEGO light bulb

August is National Inventors Month. To celebrate, the National Museum of American History built a giant light bulb model out of LEGO bricks on August 3. Museum visitors worked with LEGO Master Builders to assemble the multicolored model. The light bulb is 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall and contains over 300,000 bricks!

Get LEGO tips from a LEGO Master Builder on National Geographic Kids.

Visit the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center Invention at Play website.

Photograph courtesy of the LEGO Group

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

House of LEGO Bricks

Posted By NG Kids

James May is building a new house in Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom. This isn't an ordinary house, though. This house will be made entirely out of LEGO bricks--bathroom included! May has received over 3 million LEGO bricks from the Czech Republic to build his house.

May is building the house for his BBC series, James May's Toy Stories. On August 1, May is hosting a building day! The public is invited to work on the project.

Read more about the LEGO house on the Get Surrey website.

Check out the winning entries from the "Win a Trip to LEGOLAND" contest.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

President Obama Inaugurated in LEGOLAND

Posted By NG Kids

Photo: A replica of President Obama's Inauguration built with LEGOs

Photo by Sandy Huffaker/LEGOLAND California

President Obama's Inauguration has been recreated at LEGOLAND California! A crowd of over one thousand mini figures can be seen in front of LEGO brick Capitol building. Temperatures at this mock swearing in ceremony are much warmer than at the real ceremony.

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

National Geographic Kids