1 A City

My kids and I once spent an entire afternoon building a city out of Legos. We had a great time adding new features and coming up with fresh building ideas for legos. It didn’t stay together for long, but it was one of the best things to build with Legos that we’ve ever come up with. If you want to turn building things with legos into an immersive experience, make sure your sprawling metropolis includes all the essentials:

You can even connect your city grid to other projects on this list, such as building custom Lego robots to act as city guardians or constructing tall Lego towers as downtown skyscrapers. You will never forget how much fun this is to put together.

2 Cruise Ship

You don’t have to have an expensive boxed set to put together an epic cruise ship. Designing ocean liners is one of the most creative uses for legos because you can expand the decks as far as your brick collection allows. Use flat base pieces to construct your ship's hull and overall shape, then add traditional bricks for the outer walls and cabin dividers. Then add all the features that make a luxury cruise ship so great: a top-deck swimming pool, a bustling buffet table, comfortable cabin rooms, and even a mini amusement park ride to make your ship perfect for a Lego vacation. Don’t forget to populate the decks with minifigures and vacationers enjoying the sunshine.

3 Space Station

There are lots of Lego shapes that make them perfect for building something futuristic. If you are looking for a cool thing to build with legos when you want an imaginative project, use all those fancy angled and translucent pieces to make an orbital space station. Build control room computers, solar panels, and specialized scientific equipment. Next, construct a sturdy landing pad for the space shuttle or rocket you’ll inevitably be putting together. Add surrounding planets, asteroids, and stars made from colorful bricks to round out your galaxy creation.

4 Food

What kid doesn’t like snacks? Most official sets from the LEGO Classic collection come with extra bricks that you need to do something with so you aren’t stepping on them in the middle of the night. Using leftover bricks for play food is one of the best stuff to make out of legos when you want quick, satisfying projects. Use them to make juicy burgers, golden french fries, ice cream cones, stacked sandwiches, pasta bowls, sushi rolls, or any of your child’s other favorite meals. You can make lots of tiny pieces of food and then use them to play pretend cooking or run a toy restaurant. You can even serve these snacks in your miniature Lego city. Fun times!

5 Robots

The great thing about robots is that you can make them any size, shape, and color that you want. That gives kids free rein to design a futuristic bot that looks any way they want it to. Make them sleek and monochrome or use a rainbow mix of bricks to assemble fancy colorful robots with mechanical arms and antenna heads. No matter how you choose to assemble them, don’t forget to add gadgets, laser tools, and control dials to make them look realistic. If your kids love futuristic builds, they can dock their robots right at the space station launchpad. Your kids are going to love this!

6 Animals

Imagine a zoo or safari park made entirely of bricks! Making animals and their custom enclosures is one of the most rewarding things to make with legos. My kids love animals, so building a zoo is a perfect way to indulge their curiosity while playing with their favorite toys. Here are some fun creatures to construct for your brick zoo:

You can even build a specialized aquatic habitat for sea creatures right next to your Lego cruise ship dock. The creative possibilities are endless!

7 Towers

Nothing is more fun than impressive stuff to build with legos easy enough for all ages, like a tower that is taller than your kids! In fact, I can still make my kids smile by doing this on a weekend afternoon. Just grab a giant pile of square and rectangular bricks and start stacking them together with a sturdy wide base. Keep going block by block until the skyscraper reaches above your child’s head. If you want to check out sets and building ideas for your next family project, visit the official LEGO website for more inspiration. What fun!

What do you like to make with Legos? The options for cool stuff to make out of legos are virtually limitless, so use your imagination and get your kids in on dreaming up new things every day. Making these memories together while building things with legos is something you’ll never regret! Which one of the things on this list is the next Lego creation in your house?