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A wonderful zoo!

If your first grader just read Charlotte's Web at school, they'll love seeing the story come to life in this classic animated feature that is sweetly true to the book. We watched it for family movie night at my first grader's request, and it was a fun trip down memory lane, as my husband and I both remember watching it when we were in elementary school. I was surprised by how sad my preschooler got when Wilbur first found out he was destined to be killed, so beware for sensitive younger kids who don't already know there will be a (mostly) happy ending!

Use colors instead of numbers to play a game of LEGO Sudoku! The tutorial from Frugal Fun 4 Boys & Girls uses a six square grid, but if you want an additional challenge, you can build it as a nine-square grid as well.

Set up a variety of LEGOs on a baseplate. Use more or fewer LEGOs to adjust the difficulty level, but 7-10 pieces is probably a good place to start. Give players time to look at the set up; 10-20 seconds should be enough. Once the time is up, take the base away (or cover it), and have players try to recreate what they saw on their own baseplate.

See who can build the tallest tower, with a catch! Every piece you add has to be bigger than the last. This game is my favorite on Frugal Fun for Boys and Girl's list of awesome LEGO party games, but I also really like her Treasure Tower game, which is sort of like the "Pass the Parcel" game with LEGOs.

Frugal Fun 4 Boys and Girls has so many cool ideas for LEGO builds, projects and activities, but my favorite is her tutorial for making a marble run out of LEGOs. The cool thing is that she provides plenty of helpful tips and ideas for how to make it, along with photos of the one she built, but does NOT give you step by step instructions to build it exactly the same way. That way, kids can enjoy the challenge of a making their own unique and creative LEGO build.

We used to have one of those wooden marble mazes when I was a kid, where you had to tilt the board to move a marble around a series of paths to get to the end. I loved playing with it, and never realized how easy it is to make a DIY version of the game using LEGOs!