It’s already mid-March. Where has the year gone?
If you’re like me, you’re neck deep in March Break shenanigans with your kid(s).
Perhaps you were an early planner and signed the kids up for some kind of camp for the week while you contentedly worked in solitude from the home office.
Maybe you booked a family holiday to sunnier climes and are on the beach with them right now, building sandcastles. Don’t forget to re-apply the SPF!
Maybe you’ve already checked off your entire March Break to-do list, you’re drinking your third cup of coffee this morning, and the kids are ramping up the “antsy”.
No matter where you are during the last heavy set of holidays during this school year, there’s one friend that all parents can count on when the going gets tough, the kids are getting anxious, a parent’s batteries are waning, and the ideas have all dried up:
LEGO.
Truthfully, if doesn’t matter if you’ve got things on the go or need to fill some time for your kids this week: there’s going to be a moment when you need a break. And LEGO not only gives you that respite, but their all-ages sets keep your kids occupied with fungineering while they follow instructions and grow their creative skills. What more could you ask for on a March Break?
A quick, first-person, real-life account:
I’m just back from a couple of days of family skiing. Beautiful weather, wonderful family experiences. But it’s only two days into March Break, and the kids are full of gusto. Meanwhile, my leg muscles are sore, and my internal batteries are flashing low. I just need an hour or two to recharge.
I pull out the box of LEGO DREAMZZZ Cooper’s Gaming Controller Jet (SKU 71489), suggested for kids 7+. It’s a perfect remedy for the LEGO fever my son always seems to have – even more so today. And for the next hour and a half, he’s busy in the dining room, hard at work turning pages of the instruction manual, assembling the video game controller portion of the set, then the spaceship half, before docking together, forming Cooper’s Jet and swooshing them off into adventure!
My son, you see, is a big fan of the LEGODREAMZZZ cartoon, so today’s creative work is right up his alley.
My younger daughter, meanwhile, has taken out her paper and pencil crayons and has documented her brother’s March Break fun for colourful posterity. She’s five and once the drawing is done, there are Lego sets for her, too, including the Jurassically-cute Lego Classic Creative Dinosaurs (SKU 11041) as well as the endearing and wholly March-Break familial, LEGO Creator 3-In-1 Wild Animals: Panda Family (SKU 31165).
For the kids who are into tangible, real-life objects, there’s the LEGO City Helicopter, Fire Truck & Submarine Remix (SKU 60462). The creative building block org has got the LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Space Robot (SKU 31164) for the 8+ crowd who are into science and space. For those in the throes of video games, parents can happily get their kids to put down the controller and imaginatively build out the LEGO Minecraft The Baby Pig House (SKU 21268) or other sets from the hit gaming/builder series.
I’ll be surprising both of my kids with another box or two when needs arise this week, as they most surely will.
No matter your plans this March Break, LEGO has a set for your kids that will keep them involved with critical and creative thinking, imaginative exploration through play and an important sense of pride from their construction accomplishments. Doubly good as parents feel that pride, too!
And parents everywhere can have that much-needed and well-earned coffee break in relative peace…while they figure out the next stage of their end-of-winter family holiday.
