Share with LEGO your children’s most imaginative creations - £200 LEGO voucher to be won

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Watching your children's creativity develop can be incredibly rewarding. Spaceships, princess castles, pirate ships - We want to know about your children’s most imaginative LEGO creations.

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Our six year old son is autistic and Lego is his special interest - to the extent the psychologist he recently saw recommended Lego is used at school to help him regulate himself when overwhelmed.

He isn’t creative and has weak literacy skills, so using the pictures in the book gives him a sense of achievement without us having to overly support. We love the 3 in 1 models as he struggles to make creations himself without instructions.

The only downside is we are running out of space to store/display his models as he won’t pack the away/undo them when complete - we even have them in the bathroom!

This is one of my favourites, a submarine!

And this, which is a replica of the Titanic with a mechanism to make it move up and down on the waves.

This is my 3 year old DD's car wash... inspired by taking our car for a clean!

3yo DD is still new to LEGO, but her favourite thing to do is to take all the 2x4 blocks and stick them all on a flat LEGO sheet as a 'rainbow'. Her second favourite thing to do is to sort the blocks by colour and put them in the matching colour stacking cup. Her third favourite thing to do is to look in the instructions booklet and point out the model she will "assist" to build.

My children love building Lego together. They recently made a city with a rock concert, shops and parks - so cute seeing the little details. They’ve also made a castle and a battleship and this week some animals for the garden including this robin!

I have three children, aged 7, 10 and 11. They all adore Lego and spend hours on imaginary play with it. Favourite creations are aircraft (they set up an airfield on the living room carpet), and tanks. We've also used it to create an Egyptian pyramid that opens for a school project. Great stuff!

5 year old daughter made herself her dream jungle bedroom, compete with hammock, slide and friendly pandas.

Windsor castle, with the queen

My son adores lego and is always making unusual things, it is brilliant for his imagination! He is amazing at making things that transform such this cube that transforms into a four legged mech.

I am on a fix until March 24. I'm going to give my £400 to my parents to help them as they will struggle. My DD is only £95 and I am in credit by a quite a bit.

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My 2 kids are obsessed with Lego, they used to just build things out of plain blocks stacked on top of each other, but since making most of the Harry Potter sets and binge watching the LegoMasters TV programmes they are now much more adventurous in their own makes, using a lot more SNOT (studs not on top, not bogeys!!) and using shaped pieces for different uses - tiny croissant as a moustache, gear sticks as eyebrows, hinges to create angles in their buildings.

My 7 year old daughter has created 'The Door of Time' (centre on the first photo below) and a Now house and Future house which we inter-dimensionally travel between all the time!

In the Now House the super-heroes live next to the villains. The villains always have an evil plan up their sleeves, but then they are always foiled by the good guys!

In the Future House it's the same lego people but in the future, they have a big house with robot security on the doors, children of their own, they run a cake business and they have lots of pets including flying dogs. In the future, the villains are still around - but they've upgraded too and have a lair of their own!

DS age 10 is literally obsessed with lego. He loves a new kit and following the instructions, and has a complete craze for bionicles thanks to our local second hand lego shop. He also makes his own creations, including a spinosaurus and a rancour

My 6 year old daughter has recently fallen in love with dinosaurs. We went to our local Lego Store, to let her have her first go at filling up a tub of pick & mix Lego bricks. She looked at all the bricks on offer, spotted the yellow fence-style ones, and declared she was going to build a dinosaur enclosure. And that's what she did! It includes a watering hole, a fire pit to keep them warm, a den, and an electric fence! She was so proud of herself for making this, completely from her imagination.

We genuinely love our DD designs. This one has bunk beds, a drinks/cake/smoothies area, a nice little bathroom, a TV. There is so many details in her design. It is always changing and she likes to add other pieces on.

My two boys love lego! One of my favourite creations they made was of Robin ‘on the decks’ in his own little lego disco! 😂

DDs dad is an AFOL so Lego has been in our house since she was tiny. Duplo for her first birthday, then she moved on to the little Lego friends animal home bags by the time she was two and a half before she started getting proper sets later on. I think it helped a lot with her fine motor skills.

Over the years we’ve had all sorts of creations - from houses to space stations, mechs to animal rescue clinics, triple decker live in buses to mosaics. All had to be proudly displayed until I could smuggle them back into the brick hoard 😀

Now she’s getting older, her use of Lego is changing too. She’s started using it for stop motion animation, creating backdrops and taking characters on adventures. For a school project to retell the story of King Midas with illustrations, she used Lego to set up and photograph scenes from the story.

She and her dad regularly now discuss the merits of different building techniques and get very excited together when they spot a new brick in a set. It’s great to see their shared enthusiasm.

DD made an aquarium with upstairs cafe & a swimming pool lined with cling film so she could fill it with actual water ☺️

The pool even had a lifeguard chair for safety but the lifeguard was swimming in this photo!

My five year ds usually builds several versions of the Titanic. He’s just made the front end ship wreck version. Often builds various Britanic creations. He’s just made these this week. My favourite thing he built was a windmill where the sails turned round. Sadly he dismantled it before I had the chance to get a photo of it.

DD loves Lego, she enjoys follow the instructions to create a model but she also likes to make her own thing. Inventions, toys, buildings/layouts for characters. She's very creative.
This is a pen pot she made herself.

3yo DS wasn't impressed when DD started crawling and getting into all his toys. He used his Duplo to build himself a wheeled 'baby stinger' as a deterrent. Predictably, DD loved it and it didn't work at all, but the thought was there!

My son loves to make monsters