Lego Toss Party Game
This LEGO party game is a cornhole inspired themed activity, perfect for your next party! Find more LEGO birthday party ideas and then check this out. This post contains affiliate links.
The cool thing about having two kids with similar interests close in age is that you can repeat party themes. The cool thing about repeating party themes is that you can get super creative the second time around – or at least you need to – to avoid too much repetition.
For Y’s sixth birthday, he chose a LEGO theme and we did a few fun activities. This LEGO party game was hands down the winner. It was easy to set up, fun to play, and highly entertaining. The kids did it again and again.
Sadly, I did not document this well enough (I wasn’t planning on making a standalone post until I saw how successful it was!)
But I’ll do my best to share.
The game makes kind of a flipped over LEGO brick and includes a fun scoring challenge.
How to Make the LEGO Party Game
You’ll need
- Plastic bowls in a solid color
- A poster board in the same color.
- A frame. We repurposed one from a broken toy. You can use a cardboard box that’s large enough, build one from pipes or wood, or borrow a frame from anything.
- Hot glue gun – see my recommendations here
- A permanent marker
- Scissors
- Pen
- Loose bricks
Putting it together
1. Arrange your bowls on the back of your poster board so that they are evenly spaced in two rows. I fit six.
2. Trace around each bowl.
3. Cut around each bowl, a little smaller than you marked. It doesn’t need to be neat but you want it to be a bit smaller than the outer rim.
4. Hot glue your poster board to the base. It can simply be stretched over the opening of a cardboard box. You just want to make sure that it’s sitting a bit above the ground so that the bowls sit nicely, stretched out to make the bowls accessible. And ideally, it’ll be a bit lower in front (you can trim the front of the box to accomplish that).
5. Hot glue around the rim of each hole, and place your bowl inside so that it sits in place.
Mark a point count on each bowl to up the ante for this LEGO party game!
How to Play the LEGO Toss Party Game
Have participants stand a designated distance back from the game (we placed ours in a not-yet-planted garden bed).
They are then given however many turns you’d like and told to toss their LEGO bricks in. Someone should be in charge of keeping score.
We had a few kids line up and did not choose a winner. We just tallied it up for each kid. They sort of had a mental image of a leaderboard going on, but it was low key.
You can allow them to keep whichever bricks they get in, if you are using loose bricks and want a built-in prize.
You can also make it more competitive and keep a total score.
I simply called out scores as they did it, getting theme excited. The kids kept on getting in the back of the line to play again, and again.
It’s an open-ended party game that had the kids excited, let out some energy, and didn’t cost much as we used bricks we had!
Got another LEGO party game to recommend? Comment below!
DIY Lego Toss Game
Materials
- Plastic bowls in a solid color
- A poster board in the same color.
- A frame (You can use a cardboard box that's large enough, build one from pipes or wood, or borrow a frame from anything)
- Hot glue gun
- A permanent marker
- Scissors
- Pen
- Loose bricks
Instructions
1. Arrange your bowls on the back of your poster board so that they are evenly spaced in two rows. I fit six.
2. Trace around each bowl.
3. Cut around each bowl, a little smaller than you marked. It doesn't need to be neat but you want it to be a bit smaller than the outer rim.
4. Hot glue your poster board to the base. It can simply be stretched over the opening of a cardboard box. You just want to make sure that it's sitting a bit above the ground so that the bowls sit nicely, stretched out to make the bowls accessible. And ideally, it'll be a bit lower in front (you can trim the front of the box to accomplish that).
5. Hot glue around the rim of each hole, and place your bowl inside so that it sits in place.
