Kids turn into LEGO characters. School International Day.

International Day is celebrated in many schools around the world. It welcomes diversity and aims to share different cultures from different countries. My Year 3 class chose Denmark. We chose this country for 2 reasons, 1. it had never been picked before and 2. an often unknown or forgotten fact was usually ignored.

LEGO comes from, and was first created in Denmark. No matter what culture you are from or what age- you have almost definitely come across LEGO.

Students wasted no time bringing in size appropriate boxes to paint and wear for their themed costume. They selected their own LEGO character and penciled in the design.

Recycled white paper was needed to cover the cardboard boxes first to hard the dark print of the boxes since the paint wasn't thick enough to cover it.

Masks were cut out from a standard template to ensure all students matched.

As we progressed through the costume building, the students had to complete worksheets on the history of LEGO. Only upon completing and retaining knowledge could they continue to the next step of cutting, sticking, painting or decorating.

It was necessary for the class to have basic knowledge of what they were creating and the history of such a famous brand because class presentations would be given on the actual day to the rest of the school.

The class understood the journey Ole Kirk Christiansen took between 1934 - 1947 in developing his toy company. The name, LEGO was first given to Ole's wooden toy brand but later grew into the plastic block product we all know. The plastic blocks were first produced in Billund, Denmark and sold in shops from 1947.

Becoming a research topic for an ICT class, students discovered some interesting facts about LEGO. These got printed and hung up on our stand. The facts were:

If all the LEGO figures stood side by side, there would be enough to circle the planet 4 times.

For every single person on Earth, there are 80 LEGO bricks.

LEGO produces more car wheels/tyres than any other company in the world- in fact, they produce twice as much as the second competitor.

The fact that interested the most people was pretty amazing- You would need 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked one on top of the other to reach the moon! Since 1958, over 400 billion pieces of LEGO have been produced!

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