Lego Mismatch
- busylittleturtle
- Jul 9
- 2 min read
Steal this idea (it's free AND fun!)
I've always had a reputation for having a massive collection of Lego minifigures.
They've been used in various games and activities, but this is a favourite!
I would keep this back until the last week of term before the summer holidays.
I'd set out:
🌸A3 board with 8 flowers. There was a different musical letter in 7 flowers and a smiley face in the 8th.
🌸 On each of the lettered flowers, there were various Lego mini-figure parts.
🌸 Note reading question cards
At a random point in the lesson, I'd announce, "Lego time!" and we'd pause what we were doing, put 5 minutes on the timer, and start Lego Mismatch.
The student would...
🌸 Turn over a note-reading card,
🌸 Identify the note,
🌸 Find something on the matching lettered flower.
This could be a head, a torso, legs...Anything!
We would repeat this for the entire 5 minutes, with the student getting a lot of note- reading practice in while creating a weird and wonderful-looking Lego figure!
Sometimes I'd switch it up:
🌸 They could pick anything off any flower BUT they had to trade in a note-reading card that matched
(so if they picked something off the G flower, they had to look through the pack of cards to give me a G)
🌸 Once they'd identified the note and chosen their minifigure part, they had to play me the major scale (or pentascale) of that letter.
If they didn't, I would steal the minifigure part for the creation I was building (and that was just the worst - they didn't want to lose out to me!)
Did it make me sad pulling apart all the different Lego figures? Yes.
Did it take ages to put them back together? Yes.
Was it all worth it? Absolutely!
If you want to play Lego Mismatch in your studio, here's a free download of a flower board (so you don't need to make one yourself!)
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