Lego Brickworld Convention, 2013: Part One

Last weekend I took a trip with my husband and daughter to Schaumburg, IL to see the Lego Brickworld Convention.  My husband is an avid Lego collector and builder.  As an art teacher, I saw some fun things I snapped pictures of to share with you.  It was really great to see kids and parents together enjoying a fun hobby.  Many of the exhibits were made by adult Lego builders and others were made by parents with their kids.  Here are some of the highlights and I also took a few short videos to show the moving parts on some.  I broke this up into 2 posts, because there were so many pictures.

Here is the model of the capital building in Madison, WI that my husband built for the exhibit.  Isn’t it great?

The Lego mosaics were among my favorite pieces at the convention.  There were a lot of great mosaics made from flat Legos.  Do you recognize this famous artwork?  I hope so!

Here is a detail shot of this mosaic, so you can see the type of Legos used to create it.

More great mosaics:

A Mondrian inspired Lego house:

Another artist inspired mosaic.  This one was The Figure 5 by Charles Demuth
Here is a video of a Lego dance party! I love this!

There were a lot of awesome city scenes.  All of the exhibits were original designs, not made from kits.

Here is a video of a train in a city scene.

Daria and her cousins were really entranced by the trains.

I found the Dunkin’ Donuts!

And, of course, the Starbucks!  I had to take a picture of that.

Part Two will be coming soon!