{"id":1236,"date":"2014-11-05T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:51:22","slug":"lego-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creating a LEGO Wall in our library was one of the things that I was most excited about when planning our library makerspace. I knew this would be the centerpiece of our space and that it would be a big draw for my students. All of my inspiration for this LEGO Wall came from Diana Rendina and her photos, video, and blog posts about her own Epic LEGO Wall.<\/p>\n

Diana has written an awesome how-to post that I followed in the construction of our LEGO Wall. You can find all of the information you need on her blog<\/a> — I followed her instructions exactly and everything came out perfectly. I also love that she made a timelapse video<\/a> of the wall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s installation. When I was trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sell\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the idea of the wall to my administrator, this video really helped me explain what this was all about.<\/p>\n

With the help of my awesome parents, it took us less than two hours to put up the LEGO Wall. I would recommend assembling the wall on a Friday afternoon so that things can dry over the weekend. We put the wall together on a Sunday afternoon and it was tough keeping the students away from it on Monday so the glue could set!<\/p>\n

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We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still working out how time can be made for students to use the makerspace and create on the LEGO wall. Each day we have a 20 minute Advisory\/Intervention time, and my group is able to access the things in our makerspace to create, tinker, and play.<\/p>\n

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They also helped me organize and sort out our LEGOs:<\/p>\n

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I love seeing what our students create! Our school is in a somewhat rural\/country area, so I was not at all surprised to see the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a pin with a cow in it within the first 24 hours of the LEGO Wall being open for students:<\/p>\n

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And I was really excited to see that during a slow time on our parent-teacher conference day, our band and choir teachers stopped in to do a little making of their own:<\/p>\n

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So many students, teachers, and parents have shared their excitement about our new LEGO Wall. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a great place for students (and teachers!) to express their creativity and just have a little fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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