Genius LEGO Inventions with Bricks You Already Have: 40+ New Robots, Vehicles, Contraptions, Gadgets, Games and Other Fun STEM Creations - Softcover

Dees, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624146783 ISBN 13: 9781624146787

Publisher: Page Street Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Calling All Tinkerers, Experimenters & Inventors! Unleash Your Creative Powers with Exciting LEGOŽ Innovations

Use science and engineering to transform your bin of LEGOŽ bricks into amazing, movable toys, machines and gadgets. Bestselling author Sarah Dees is back with an all-new collection of projects featuring ingenious designs and simple scientific principles that real engineers use every day. Make yourself a robot pal whose legs move as he rolls along, or a drummer who really plays the drums. Build a wind-up car complete with a flywheel that’ll send your minifigures zooming. Or challenge your friends to a game of pinball on a LEGOŽ pinball machine you built from scratch. Each project is cooler than the next!

It’s easy and fun to build each of these awesome contraptions and games by following the clear step-by-step instructions and photographs. Think you have a different way to build something? Exercise your inventing muscles and tinker away! You’re in charge of your designs, so experiment and tweak to make your inventions personal to you. No matter what you end up creating, you’ll learn exciting new things about science, impress your family and have a blast along the way.

Collect the whole series with Sarah Dees' other bestselling LEGO books:
- The Big Book of LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have
- Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have
- Epic LEGO Adventures with Bricks You Already Have
- Incredible LEGO Creations From Space with Bricks You Already Have

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Dees is the creator behind the popular kids activities blog Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls and the author of the bestselling LEGOŽ Creations book series. Sarah and her family live in Fort Worth, Texas.

From the Back Cover

Sarah Dees? first two LEGO books have launched into bestseller status, with over 80k copies sold combined. Her latest book hits on the popular subject that draws many kids into LEGO in the first place?tinkering, engineering, building, experimenting, solving problems and inventing. This book shares fun and exciting new science-powered creations, following the storyline of two fictional LEGO minifigure kids who are inventors. As the minifigures explore LEGO world and go on adventures, kids at home learn to build the scenes and amazing inventions step by step. The projects are fun toys that kids can play with, but they also teach the important science concepts at work behind levers, pulleys, suspension bridges, skyscrapers, gears, motorized machines, magnets and more. Kids will love that they are creating cool and unique gadgets all on their own. And parents will love that their kids are learning important science facts that help them in school, developing critical thinking skills, and, let?s be honest, keeping themselves entertained for hours on end! This book makes the perfect gift any time of year for science lovers, fans of Sarah?s previous books and, really, anyone who loves LEGO!

Edition details

• Publisher: Page Street Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1624146783
• ISBN 13: 9781624146787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192