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A keyboard layout made with colorful LEGO bricks placed on a grey LEGO baseplate. Each brick represents a letter or symbol, including accented characters, in a visually organized grid.

Tips & Tricks

How to make the best use of the bricks

Preparation is key not to lose any of the time allowed with the students. The 300 bricks of the box are not sorted, so get prepared with these tips and tricks.

Organising the toolkit

The bricks are loose in the toolkit. Sort them so that you have quick access to letters and numbers.

It’s important
to sort the bricks to save time.
There are only four letter Ps in the box,
so it’s impossible to find them quickly.
And it’s even worse when you’re searching
with your fingers and not your eyes.
Here is a way to sort
all the bricks in the box,
following the order
written on the overview card.
Each letter comes in multiples of four.
We recommend that you make stacks of four bricks.
For some letters you will have several stacks.
Here five stacks of letter A.
You start placing them at the top left corner
and you follow the first line.
Five stacks of As, two of Bs.
3 stacks of Cs, 3 piles of Ds.
When you finish the first line,
you have to go to the second row
and leave space.
1 or 2 studs, so it will be easier
for you to reach the bricks in the middle.
When you’ve placed all the letters,
you still have the last row
with the capital sign.
Comma, apostrophe, period.
And all the math symbols.
Put the alphabet baseplate, the two baseplates
in the box. And you can close easily
the entire toolkit.
For children who are just starting to read and write,
prepare a lighter baseplate with one column of letters.
It will be easier for them
to access the letters one by one,
with space between the bricks
and between the rows.
And for math activities, you do the same with numbers.
So one column and one stack of each number
and one row
with all the mathematical signs.