Help Your Kids Think Outside the Box by Throwing it Out (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

I’ve heard many times from parents and kids to “Just build it the way it’s supposed to be. ” The beauty of The Lego Lost and Found Box is there’s no picture on the box. Whenever she’s looking for some building fun, she dumps the box on the floor, sits down amongst the pieces and lets her imagination take over. In my house we have a spot for errant Lego called “The Lego Lost and Found box”. In that box there are leftover Technic Pieces, Gears, Bricks and those little translucent caps. The box serves two purposes, the first one being the obvious. The second purpose is one of my daughter’s favorite uses if the box. Sometimes I’m called in as a consultant to handle an engineering problem or attend a design meeting, but the final creation is all hers. Sometimes she has an idea, such as the “Death Bot” pictured here.