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Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

February 1, 2016 by Jenae -
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Animal Mix-Up

 

Years ago I created an Animal Mix-Up LEGOs activity that was pretty much identical to this one.  Unfortunately, however, when I transferred my blog from one platform to another (Blogger to WordPress), this specific post was somehow lost (and the pictures that went with it had long been deleted–oopsies).

I have been asked several times to recreate this activity and finally did it!  It is a much simpler version of our LEGO Picture Puzzles activity and is the perfect finale for our 31 Days of Indoor Fun for Toddlers series.

 

Here’s what you’ll need:

LEGO Duplos

Double-sided tape

Xacto knife

Our Animal Mix-Up Printable

Optional:  Laminator

 

Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

1. Download, print, and laminate our Animal Mix-Up LEGOs printable.  Please keep in mind that the pictures will not fit exactly on the DUPLOs…you will need to do some trimming.  I did my best to make them fit perfectly, but ran into limitations with the original stock photos themselves.

 

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2.  Use double-stick tape on each DUPLO to secure the photo.

 

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3.  Trimming works best with an Xacto knife and cutting board…but mine is currently lost so I had to use scissors.  After I attached the photo to the DUPLOs, I trimmed around the edges and then broke apart the two and snipped through the middle.

 

Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

Ta-da!

 

Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

This is a great opportunity to practice animal sounds.  Learning animal sounds is great for your child’s language development.

 

Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

Here they are with the right tops and bottoms…

 

Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

…and here they are all mixed up.  Ideally, all animals would be facing in the same direction.  But again, I was limited by the stock photos available. :)

 

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Little Sister had lots of fun with this activity!

 

Animal Mix-Up LEGOs

“Neigh!  Neigh!”

 

Cow Mix-Up LEGOs

 

 

Check out more fun indoor activities for toddlers here:

31 Days of Indoor Toddler Fun

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  1. Shiloah says

    February 17, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Great idea! I love the simplicity of this. Would a three-year-old still find this engaging? Perhaps more blocks, a three-piece puzzle?

    Trying this when I get my laminator. Might use other animals she’s interested in at the moment, too. Thanks!

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