What the ‘30 day LEGO challenge’ taught me about my mental health needs during COVID 🧱

In the midst of trying to keep our sanity during these unstable times, my sister kindly sent the family their own LEGO box so we could all take part in the 30 day LEGO challenge.

I am quite a competitive person, so this caught me by no surprise that I would act any differently during this challenge, than I would for an intense monopoly game. The only difference being we were also playing against my 3 nephews and so a lot of the first prizes went to them (although we all knew it was pity voting… right?).

There were a few things that it did teach me that ended up being rather surprising.

Step 1 of my COVID mental health plan. Feel free to play!

My strategy was to build the most realistic thing and to do that I would turn to google, look at photos and copy that… what does a pick up truck ACTUALLY look like? What does the NASA rocket look like or should I just base it on the rocket emoji 🚀?

Our first few submissions were quite literal. Although looked great still very literal.