One thing I HAVE discovered – which every Lego-loving dad will appreciate – is that you can now download instructions for thousands of new and old models at the official Lego website. Brilliant news if you, like me, have the pieces for lots of models but not the crucial instructions. Also, and slightly worryingly for me, I’ve discovered that you can order individual pieces from the “Lego brick shop“. I’m now giving serious consideration to downloading instructions for models that I have almost all the pieces for, sorting them out and ordering the leftovers – then having the fun of building the whole thing with Robert. It’s creativity on a budget! Well, sort of anyway…

Anyway, back to the point of this post. If you’re as big a fan as me, you may well enjoy seeing people doing creative things with Lego – the photo at the top of this post has been doing the rounds on Facebook this week, much to everyone’s delight. Over the past few years I’ve found a number of great people to follow on Flickr who do just these sorts of things – so I wanted to share some of my favourites with you here. Click the picture for a link to the creator’s Flickr page…

Image courtesy of Bruceywan on Flick

Image courtesy of Kalexanderson on Flickr

Image courtesy of Kaitan Tylerguy on Flickr

Image courtesy of LDM on Flickr

Image courtesy of Captain Spaulding on Flickr

It's Zoidberg! Image courtesy of -infomaniac- on Flickr

Image courtesy of bikicsmilan on Flickr

Image courtesy of Lego Josh on Twitter

Image courtesy of Tervlon on Flickr

Image courtesy of Monsterbrick on Twitter

Image courtesy of Chris N Parsons, from the group "Lego Album Covers"

Image courtesy of Brickmodified on Flickr

Seems to work though!