11 Best Lego Gifts for Brick Builders (2024)

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  The Next Set They Want

  Lego Star Wars Droideka

  One of the reasons that Lego sets are truthful fashionable are the company's innumerable licensing deals. No substance what you're into, Lego has signed a woody to marque a Lego acceptable astir it. (And then, successful an ouroboros of advertising, the institution volition past make a movie about the Lego acceptable about the franchise.) Anyway, this is simply a agelong and roundabout mode of saying that my lad is obsessed with Star Wars and has requested respective Star Wars sets connected his vacation privation list.

  My girl is besides obsessed with Lego, but predictably, she likes antithetic sets; she wants the tiny succulents acceptable ($50). With a Lego set, you tin walk arsenic small oregon arsenic overmuch arsenic you want. We besides conscionable started the Harry Potter bid and my hubby is looking astatine the Hogwarts acceptable ($136) for the wintertime break.

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  A Lego Stocking Stuffer

  Lego Note Brick

  If you person a coworker who likes Lego and would similar to acquisition him oregon her thing tiny and thoughtful, I suggest this small notepad. It's precise cute, has 224 pieces of paper, and 1 broadside looks similar a brick. The notes themselves are astir 5 inches long, which is large capable for a beauteous important note! Chronicle Books has a full enactment of Lego books, puzzles, and stationery for your Lego-obsessed friend. You could besides propulsion successful a battalion of these brick erasers ($16) to marque a small attraction package.

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  A Big Lego Book

  The Big Book of Amazing Lego Creations With Bricks You Already Have

  Have each your sets present go disassembled, and bash you request immoderate inspiration portion looking astatine the elephantine wheelbarrow of Lego bricks connected your beforehand porch? This is my kids' favourite publication for ideas connected what to build. It has been a conflict to not “lose” it from the library.

  All of the builds are reasonably casual and truthful acold I haven't seen immoderate builds that necessitate specialized pieces. However, you volition astir apt request much than conscionable 12 reddish bricks oregon 14 yellowish ones to marque galore of the builds, truthful you should marque definite your Lego loved 1 has a important postulation already. If you privation different sources of inspiration, we besides similar The Art of the Brick ($25) and I would beryllium remiss if I did not see our ain Brian Barrett's book, The Art of the Minifigure ($22).

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  A Lego Head Mug

  Lego Ceramic Mug

  As Lego-branded toys started to rotation into my house, I bash person the caveat that my kids were precise confused. ("Why are each these Lego gifts coming successful but nary of them are Legos?") However, my lad was instantly thrilled and delighted with this mug and demands that I lavation it each greeting for him to drink.

  There are several faces to take from if your children don't privation to match. It's ceramic and tin clasp astir 17 ounces of liquid—so, beauteous large for a 7-year-old but thing his small hands can't handle. It's dishwasher-safe. We've besides received these off-brand Lego mugs ($12) arsenic gifts, but again, the clutch powerfulness of off-brand Lego bricks is unsatisfactory and the bricks don't instrumentality connected precise well.

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  The Best Lego Notebook

  Lego Stationery Locking Notepad

  Do you person an artsy small Lego lover? My girl has been obsessed with this notebook and carrying it astir everyplace she goes. It's astir 6 inches square, truthful tiny capable to acceptable successful a backpack oregon tote bag, with a decent 176 lined sheets. It has a fantastic conceit—the Lego gel pen matches the colour of the binding and clicks close into it, truthful it some locks the notebook unopen and ensures you ne'er suffer your pen. That's unless you're 9 and permission your pen connected the room table, wherever your puppy finds it and eats it (see next).

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  Add Some Lego Pens

  IQ Lego Gel Pens

  This is simply a 10-pack of licensed Lego gel pens. They travel successful 10 abstracted colors and acceptable Lego bricks, which is precise amusive if your kid decides that they privation to physique their ain homemade table organizer arsenic they draw. The ink flows smoothly and they've lasted for respective weeks. For much insubstantial and pen ideas, cheque retired our usher to the Best Paper Notebooks. My girl was truthful heartbroken erstwhile her puppy destroyed her Lego pen that my hubby decided helium had to regenerate it instantly (also, the pen was precise cool).

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  Lego Friendship Bracelets

  Lego Dots Bracelets

  These Lego bracelet enactment favors were incredibly fashionable with the second- and third-graders astatine my kids' school. There are a ton of antithetic designs, from Funky Animals ($7) to Monsters ($10), and there's adjacent a party kit ($40) if you privation to propulsion a get-together for a fewer Lego-lovin' small crafters. I'm inactive uncovering these small dots stuck to the bottoms of my feet years later. Do with that what you will.

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  A Keychain Light

  Lego Figure Keychain Light

  Far beryllium it from maine to archer you what to adhd to your bag charms, but Lego's nighttime airy keychains are quirky and useful. If you've ever dropped thing successful the acheronian successful the backmost of a car, portion you're walking connected the street, oregon adjacent if you've dropped thing successful the achromatic spread depths of your ain bag, past you cognize that having a small airy astir tin beryllium handy.

  Lego makes a ton of antithetic keychain lights, and each the figures are precise sturdy and posable. (I similar Banana Guy chiefly from his description: “He loves 2 things: Bananas and partying.”) They besides enactment arsenic a amusive small fidget if you're sitting successful a waiting country with your son.

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  Fun Lego Messages

  Lego Message Board

  This connection committee is conscionable great. It's a decent-size acceptable with 1,793 pieces aimed astatine kids that are older than 9, but my 7-year-old had nary occupation pursuing the physique instructions (he is beauteous experienced, I guess).

  This is simply a amusive evening project. You physique the frame, past constitute your personalized messages by making letters. There's adjacent instructions for adding umlauts, accents, and different peculiar characters if you're penning successful antithetic languages, and it includes antithetic stickers to punctuate your message. I've been waking up each greeting to my kids greeting maine with antithetic messages, which is very, precise cute.

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  A Fun Video Game

  Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game

  Disclosure: We play this crippled arsenic portion of our PlayStation Plus subscription, but you tin bargain it à la carte. I was beauteous amazed by however enjoyable this crippled is. The graphics are affluent and immersive. The gameplay besides strikes that good equilibrium betwixt being casual capable for 7- to 9-year-olds to master, portion inactive being enjoyable for 40-year-olds who are pushing their children speech to instrumentality turns warring successful the dojos. I americium besides mode excessively funny successful the Lego Lord of the Rings bid ($21) for PlayStation.

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  A Lego Lover's Little Face

  Lego Picture Frame

  I haven't been capable to bent creation oregon pictures successful my kids' playroom. With the fig of stuffed animals, shot balls, inexpensive drones, oregon occasional spaghetti noodles being flung around, I'm beauteous definite that immoderate frames would extremity up arsenic a heap of breached solid connected the floor. Do you person a akin occupation erstwhile trying to show pictures of your rambunctious small trolls that emotion Lego? These representation frames could beryllium the answer.

  These representation frames are made from coagulated integrative with a slide-in slot to show photos oregon art. They travel successful a wide assortment of colors, and the woody ones travel successful overmuch larger sizes.

Adrienne So is simply a elder subordinate reviews exertion for WIRED, wherever she reviews user technology. She graduated from the University of Virginia with bachelor’s degrees successful English and Spanish, and she antecedently worked arsenic a freelance writer for Cool Hunting, Paste, Slate, and different publications. She lives successful Portland, Oregon.

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