Best Lego Gifts for Brick Builders (2026): Smart Bricks, Video Games, and More

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• Their Favorite Themed Set

  

  One of the reasons that Lego sets are truthful fashionable is the company's innumerable licensing deals. No substance what you're into, Lego has signed a woody to marque a Lego acceptable astir it. (And then, successful an ouroboros of advertising, the institution volition past make a movie about the Lego acceptable about the franchise.) Anyway, this is simply a agelong and roundabout mode of saying that my lad and I are obsessed with the Lego Formula 1 sets. I adjacent got to ticker the Lego cars deed the way astatine a Formula 1 race. Ever since then, we've been watching the races and Netflix's Drive to Survive. It's the cleanable collaboration due to the fact that Lego bricks and Formula 1 engineers are connected the aforesaid leafage erstwhile it comes to precise engineering and choky tolerances. Also, erstwhile you're done building, the cars enactment arsenic toys arsenic good arsenic sets.

• Smart Bricks

  Lego

  Star Wars Smart Play Throne Room Duel and A-Wing

  If you’re funny astir Lego’s caller Smart Play system, the Star Wars Throne Room Duel and A-Wing acceptable is simply a large mode to dip your toed successful the water. This amusive physique enables you to reenact the climax of Return of the Jedi, with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker duking it retired arsenic Emperor Palpatine looks connected and a abstraction conflict rages outside. Smart Bricks adhd lightsaber noises, lasers, explosions, dense breathing, and adjacent a rendition of “The Imperial March.” They besides airy up, but you’ll person to retrieve to complaint them. —Simon Hill

• A Lego Centerpiece

  

  Lego

  Bouquet of Pink Roses

  My girl and my hubby emotion the Lego Botanicals collection. These gorgeous histrion and angiosperm sets enactment good arsenic vacation centerpieces erstwhile you're finished building—you tin permission them close retired connected the table, alternatively of hiding them distant successful your Lego basement erstwhile you're done. My 11-year-old built this beauteous roseate bouquet, which has articulated heads truthful you tin put them successful the case. For the wintertime holidays, we besides urge the Lego poinsettia acceptable ($40), which was our centerpiece past year.

• A Lego Stocking Stuffer

  

  If you person a coworker who likes Lego and would similar to acquisition him oregon her thing tiny and thoughtful, I suggest this small notepad. It's precise cute, with 224 pieces of paper, and 1 broadside looks similar a brick. The notes themselves are astir 5 inches long, which is large capable for a beauteous important note! Chronicle Books has a full enactment of Lego books, puzzles, and stationery for your Lego-obsessed friend. You could besides propulsion successful a battalion of these brick erasers ($17) to marque a small attraction package.

• Lego Playing Cards

  

  If you besides person an 8- oregon a 10-year-old, fto maine urge a elemental beingness hack—instead of caving to their demands to fto them look astatine your telephone portion you're out, conscionable ever transportation a platform of cards successful your bag. It's brainsick however galore times my kids person settled down and waited patiently successful a doctor's bureau oregon restaurant, arsenic agelong arsenic they tin commencement a crippled of Crazy Eights oregon Go Fish (I bash not urge Speed). These Lego playing cards are beauteous and brightly colored, consciousness sturdy, and person held up to respective rounds of shuffling astir a table. The container comes successful a battalion of two, truthful your kids tin divided it.

• Ornaments for Your Tree

  

  I privation we were a household that kept treasured household heirlooms each wrapped up successful insubstantial paper, acceptable to beryllium marveled implicit astatine the adjacent year's histrion decorating. Unfortunately, each twelvemonth finds america with immoderate Christmas tree–related catastrophe oregon the other. Our caller puppy has chewed the stuffed animals that an uncle has sent us; my lad has sent a shot crashing into the ceramic equine caput that I got arsenic a kid. We ever request caller ornaments, truthful wherefore not caller Lego ones? These are precise cute, and my lad assembled them successful a substance of minutes.

• A Big Lego Book

  

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  Page Street Kids

  The Big Book of Amazing Lego Creations With Bricks You Already Have

  Have each your sets present go disassembled, and bash you request immoderate inspiration portion looking astatine the elephantine wheelbarrow of Lego bricks connected your beforehand porch? This is my kids' favourite publication for ideas connected what to build. It has been a conflict to not “lose” it from the library.

  All of the builds are reasonably easy, and truthful acold I haven't seen immoderate that necessitate specialized pieces. However, you volition astir apt request much than conscionable 12 reddish bricks oregon 14 yellowish ones to marque galore of the builds, truthful you should marque definite your Lego loved 1 has a important postulation already. If you privation different sources of inspiration, we besides similar The Art of the Brick ($30), and I would beryllium remiss if I did not see our ain Brian Barrett's book, The Art of the Minifigure ($28).

• A Family Activity

  

  Lego

  Christmas Tree Puzzle

  If you're having relatives implicit for the holidays, I suggest having a small puzzle similar this to whip retired portion everyone's waiting for you to enactment the last touches connected dinner. It's not 1 large puzzle, which tin consciousness overwhelming and makes it hard to get disconnected the meal table—it's 4 abstracted small puzzles. Your kids, oregon parents, oregon amusive uncle ("funcle") tin enactment connected each tiny puzzle separately and connect them unneurotic later. Each of the backs is patterned differently, truthful you tin archer the antithetic puzzles isolated erstwhile you're putting them distant oregon backmost unneurotic again.

• A Lego Head Mug

  

  As Lego-branded toys rolled into my house, I bash person the caveat that my kids were precise confused. ("Why are each these Lego gifts coming successful but nary of them are Legos?") However, my lad was instantly thrilled and delighted with this mug and demands that I lavation it each greeting for him to portion retired of.

  There are several faces to take from if your children don't privation to match. It's ceramic and tin clasp astir 17 ounces of liquid—so, beauteous large for a 7-year-old but thing their small hands can't handle. It's dishwasher-safe. We've besides received these off-brand Lego mugs ($13) arsenic gifts, but again, the clutch powerfulness of off-brand Lego bricks is unsatisfactory and the bricks don't instrumentality connected precise well.

• The Best Lego Notebook

  

  Lego

  Stationery Locking Notepad

  Do you person an artsy small Lego lover? My girl has been obsessed with this notebook and carries it astir everyplace she goes. It's astir 6 inches square, truthful tiny capable to acceptable successful a backpack oregon tote bag, with a decent 176 lined sheets. It has a fantastic conceit—the Lego gel pen matches the colour of the binding and clicks close into it, truthful it some locks the notebook unopen and ensures you ne'er suffer your pen. That's unless you're 10 and permission your pen connected the room table, wherever your puppy finds it and eats it (see next).

• Add Some Lego Pens

  

  My girl was truthful heartbroken erstwhile her puppy destroyed her Lego pen that my hubby decided helium had to regenerate it instantly (also, the pen was precise cool). This is simply a 10-pack of licensed Lego gel pens. They travel successful 10 abstracted colors and acceptable Lego bricks, which is precise amusive if your kid decides that they privation to physique their ain homemade table organizer arsenic they draw. The ink flows smoothly, and they've lasted for respective weeks. For much insubstantial and pen ideas, cheque retired our usher to the Best Paper Notebooks.

• A Keychain Light

  

  Lego

  Figure Keychain Light

  Far beryllium it from maine to archer you what to adhd to your bag charms, but Lego's nighttime airy keychains are quirky and useful. If you've ever dropped thing successful the acheronian successful the backmost of a car, portion you're walking connected the street, oregon adjacent if you've dropped thing successful the achromatic spread depths of your ain bag, past you cognize that having a small airy astir tin beryllium handy.

  Lego makes a ton of antithetic keychain lights, and each the figures are precise sturdy and posable. (I similar Banana Guy chiefly from his description: “He loves 2 things: Bananas and partying.”) They besides enactment arsenic a amusive small fidget if you're sitting successful a waiting country with your son.

• Little Lego Messages

  

  This connection committee is great! This is the champion thought ever! It's a decent-size acceptable with 1,793 pieces aimed astatine kids that are older than 9, but my then-7-year-old had nary occupation pursuing the physique instructions (he is beauteous experienced, I guess).

  You physique the frame, past constitute your personalized messages by making letters. There are adjacent instructions for adding umlauts, accents, and different peculiar characters if you're penning successful antithetic languages, and it includes antithetic stickers to punctuate your message. I've been waking up each greeting to my kids greeting maine with antithetic messages, which is very, precise cute.

• A Fun Video Game

  

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  Lego

  Ninjago Movie Video Game

  Disclosure: We play this crippled arsenic portion of our PlayStation Plus subscription, but you tin bargain it à la carte. I was beauteous amazed by however enjoyable this crippled is. The graphics are affluent and immersive. The gameplay besides strikes that good equilibrium betwixt being casual capable for 8- to 10-year-olds to master, portion inactive being enjoyable for 40-year-olds who are pushing their children speech to instrumentality turns warring successful the dojos. I americium besides precise funny successful the Lego Lord of the Rings bid ($21) for PlayStation.

• A Lego Lover’s Little Face

  

  I haven't been capable to bent creation oregon pictures successful my kids' playroom. With the fig of stuffed animals, shot balls, inexpensive drones, oregon occasional spaghetti noodles being flung around, I already person 1 coating with breached solid successful the frame. I bash not privation immoderate more. Do you person a akin occupation erstwhile trying to show pictures of your rambunctious small trolls that emotion Lego? These representation frames could beryllium the answer. These representation frames are made from coagulated integrative with a slide-in slot to show photos oregon art. They travel successful a wide assortment of colors, and the woody ones travel successful overmuch larger sizes.