Building with Lego is a classic way to spend time together as a family. It is also one of the best STEM skill learning tools that doubles as a classic toy. Lego movies, blocks, action figures, and large-scale models provide endless entertainment on regular days.
Another great use for the pile of Legos in the toy bin is using them as an entire birthday party theme! Read on for Lego party game ideas that will keep party guests busy and having fun!
1. Lego Guessing Game
This simple challenge is a guessing game sometimes played with candy during holiday parties. Fill a big jar with some Lego mini-bricks, and have guests guess how many there are as they arrive for the party. The person closest to the correct number of colored bricks wins the game!
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2. Lego Memory Game
Another game similar to the guessing game is this memory game. Set a time limit for each player to be able to observe what is placed on the Lego display. After time expires, have them recreate the baseplate with bricks as best they can without looking.
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3. I-Spy Mini – Figures
This is another classic-style game that will win big with birthday party goers. Hide the little guys all around the party area and have players collect them as they see them! Whoever has the most after the timer goes off, wins!
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4. Lego Donkey Game
A twist on the donkey game played by many over the years, this version of the game involves placing the head of a Lego mini-figure where it belongs! Grab the blindfold, spin around, and build the Lego figure!
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5. Lego Tower Game
Build a tower larger than the other players in two minutes with blocks from your team’s container of Legos. It has to stand tall without falling over, and the team that builds the tallest one conquers all.
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6. Lego Mini-figure Game
Set a timer for a 5-minute challenge and give each party-goer their own inexpensive bag containing a mini-figure. They should try to construct their little Lego guy within the time limit. Make it even more fun by playing a song instead of setting a timer. When the song is over, time is up!
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7. Lego Mini-figure Bingo
Since mini-figures have become one of the favorite parts of Lego play for children, continue the fun after building them with mini-figure Bingo! Use a variety of brick squares as markers, or use candy for a sweet twist. The best part is that everyone can eat their candy pieces at the end of the game!
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8. Life-size Lego Tower Game
Build even bigger with life-sized Lego bricks! The tower game idea would be even more of an engineering contest if the bricks were large and could be built up to child height! Make colorful bricks with shoe boxes and shipping boxes by adding the dots on top. Birthday party games are always more entertaining when challenges get bigger!
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9. Create Your Own Lego Mini-figure
Another popular game choice is to create your own caricature mini-figure. Little kids will love using mixed media to draw, scribble, and color in their idea of themselves as a Lego character! Get out the markers, crayons, paints, and stickers and let party guests get as creative as possible with their art. Have the adults judge whose art looks most like them! Having a top 3 with prizes would be exciting.
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10. Lego Ring Toss Game
Make a basic ring toss game to a different level by using Lego pieces to build the sticks. The rings can be hair elastics, or glow stick rings–depending on the style of gaming and how large the sticks are built. An added learning bonus is that kids will build their own board so they decide how challenging their ring toss will be!
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11. Lego Color Sorting Game
Fun for family game night or for a child’s Lego-themed party game, sorting colorful bricks by color for a certain amount of time is the perfect game to bring some laughter to the party. Make the chopsticks out of flat, skinny Lego, or use some real chopsticks! Use paper plates to sort by color until the song ends, or the timer runs out. As a modification, use a stopwatch and see how long each team takes to sort their supply!
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12. Fill the Base Plate Lego Game
Fill up a base plate with Lego in this fast-paced game! All that is needed is a couple of dice, a base plate the size of your choosing to make it fair, and a large selection of colored brick pieces. Roll the dice, add them up, and find a Lego with the right amount of bumps on it to cover the base plate. Sound simple? Make sure to have plenty of “ones” in the pile for those odd numbers!
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13. Make Lego Man Keepsake Jars
Let the birthday party guests get creative! You could use painted jars, or simply put yellow candy or other items inside. Provide googly eyes, Sharpie markers, sticker mouths, and accessories!
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14. Lego Building Relay Game
Kids are always wanting the pricey, large Lego sets that are from their favorite movies and TV shows. Without them, they act like they don’t know what to build at all. So, give them these free printable Lego building challenge cards and they won’t ever say they don’t know what to build again! With party-goers, make it relay race style. Draw teams out of a hat and set a number of cards to get done.
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15. Lego Piñata
Have a Lego piñata and let the classic game of getting the candy out begin! A piece of candy makes everything sweeter on a child’s birthday.
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16. Marble Maze Game
Marble mazes are a great way to incorporate some thinking and engineering into the party games. Using Lego base plates and a bunch of bricks, make a path for a marble to travel, and then vote on who made the best one!
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17. Mix It Up with the Mini-figures
Mix it up with the mini-figures again. Use this printable file and get full-color bits and pieces of Lego men to cut out and mix and match. Give the policeman the body of a space guy. Give Emmet a hat like Abraham Lincoln! Display the creations around the party to add to the decor and have adults vote for their favorite mix-up!
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18. Lego Drop Game
Another classic version of a birthday party game is the drop game. For Lego drop, use small buckets and have players stand on a chair. Holding the Lego by their nose, then drop it into the bucket from up high.
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19. Lego I-Spy with a Twist
This is kind of like the game where you guess how many Legos are inside the jar–but it has a different twist. Play I-Spy with the jar or tube of Legos. Provide a list of objects (that are NOT Legos) that are hidden in the jar and have children find all the objects for a piece of candy!
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20. Lego Memory
Lego Memory is a fun way to play a game where individuals don’t have to team up. Younger children sometimes don’t function well in team games, so this will be a treat. Use colored card stock to draw Legos and put different letters on the back of each card. The first person to collect L-E-G-O wins!
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21. Lego Ball Toss
Take the party outside and play ball toss into some homemade Lego! Each player gets three attempts with each ball and tallies up points.
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22. Lego Tic-Tac-Toe
This Lego birthday party game incorporates several things from the other games we have mentioned so far, so you’re sure to have them on hand. Leave a Lego-style Tic-Tac-Toe board on a table that everyone at the party passes by. Players will be encouraged to stop and try their luck!
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23. Blindfolded Lego Building
Another awesome party idea is to build blindfolded! Kids 7 and up will love being silly trying to piece bricks together with a blindfold on and then seeing what they created when they remove it.
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24. Lego Disaster Island
Teamwork makes the dream work in this awesome Lego-inspired game called Disaster Island! Set a timer for this building challenge and teams make an island. Then, a card tells them what disaster they have to fix!
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25. Lego Candy Land
At your family game night, you’ve probably played a classic game like Candy Land or Sorry. This Lego-inspired party game is made in the same style and is great for a small party of 5-6 people. See who ends the game trail with the most bricks in hand!
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26. Free the Frozen Lego Mini-figure
This could be our favorite one on the list! Freeze the little guys in ice cube trays and have children figure out how they’re going to free them! What a great strategy game!
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27. Lego Car Racing
Another one of our favorite games on this list is Lego car racing! Create your car, make your mark, and watch the cars race down the ramp at the sound of the bell!
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28. Lego Spoon Race
Another relay race-style game to play at a Lego-themed birthday party is a spoon race! Scoop up the Lego, run it across the room to a bowl, and be the first to finish all of them!
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29. Lego Sensory Bottles
Use regular bricks to make a really cool visual party favor! Save some water bottles (Voss bottles have a great cylindrical shape) and fill them halfway with water, put in the bricks you want, and then the rest with clear glue. Viola! Instant fun Lego party favors!
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30. Lego Bowling Game
Get “bowled over” with this birthday party bowling game! The classic game of bowling is made more interesting by becoming a tabletop game or even using Lego Duplo bricks (which are larger), to make it a floor or outdoor game!
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