Building Emotions LEGO Activity

We've been working on emotions at our house with a variety of activities, mostly with a LEGO theme. For instance, the kids recently drew emotions on 3D LEGO heads and played this printable LEGO I spy game. As another way to use LEGO to explore emotions, I set up this simple fine motor activity for my youngest son.

This fine motor LEGO activity for kids encourages kids to explore, build, and recreate some common emotions.

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LEGO Activity for Kids to Build & Explore Emotions

For this activity, I used:

• LEGO bricks: green base plate, yellow bricks, single black dots, black dots connected with strings, two black lever type pieces (clearly using the official names for the pieces here...haha)
• LEGO head emotion cards from this free printable Today I Feel LEGO chart

Before presenting this fine motor LEGO activity to five year old K, I built a LEGO head out of yellow bricks on a small green base plate. I then placed the finished LEGO head and the LEGO emotion cards on a tray. You could either present the activity with an emotion already built (like below) or leave the LEGO head blank.

The idea is to recreate the emotions on the cards by building them on the LEGO head. It's a great way to work on social-emotional development, while encouraging fine motor skills practice. K wanted to start with happy.

Then he worked his way through the other emotions, pausing only occasionally to show off his creations on the LEGO head.

Then K explored a variety of other emotions not available on the printable emotion cards and experimented with making his own creations. He was quite proud of this little guy!

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