This past Christmas I decided to build my own Christmas tree
out of Legos. The previous year I made a
small tree, but the branches were not very strong. So I wanted to make a larger and stronger
tree. First I started by testing a
couple of branch ideas and came up with a design to have different branch
layers with 4 branches, one going in each direction but still connected
together. For the branches I had to take standard bricks and then put a layer
of flat bricks on each side. This basically made a sandwich and made pretty
strong branches. Then I had to build the brown tree trunk around the branches. Underneath
the tree I made a pretty solid base and built various different color and sizes
of packages/ supports. Then we found various
Legos; clear, colored, round, squares to decorate the tree. By the time I was finished my tree was 30
inches tall and I used about 2,100 Legos
This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. I can’t wait to start my next bigger and better Lego project which might possibly be a saguaro cactus.
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