HeyJaredFree to Build: A LEGO Therapy Substack
A substack about my LEGO Freebuilding therapy groups for children and teens in mental health treatment.
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Lego Fidgets (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowAlright, my last two posts have been about ‘functional’ Lego builds. This is similar, but I think I can safely say this is the ‘fan favorite’ of all my functional lego prompts with the kids I work with. The prompt, again, is simple:Build a Lego ‘Fidget’For those of you who don’t work with kids / aren’t around kids recently, I’ll start by explaining what exactly a ‘Fidget’ i
Lego Bookends (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowMy last post was about using Legos to make something practical, functional, usable. That’s a large umbrella that can encompass a million different ideas, which I encourage my clients to explore whenever I do that prompt. But sometimes I’ll run a few different variations of this prompt, which I’ll be talking about in this post as well as my next post. For this one, the challenge itself is very simple and self-explanatory: Build a pair of Lego b
Practical Builds (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowMost Lego projects I use (and honestly most official Lego sets or even MOCs out there on the internet) are ‘representational’. As in, this Lego model is supposed to look like this character, or that plant, or <a href="https://asherfarkas24.substack.com/p/lego-animals-building-creatures-real?r=e9y8m
Album Covers in Lego (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowA few months ago I posted a few variations on my “Lego Animals” prompt by discussing how you could do a whole week doing just SEA animals or SMALL animals/insects. Now I want to discuss another variation — this time a play on my MUSIC prompt, which I posted about a while ago. This is…<h3 style="text-al
Grayscale: Working Without Color (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowMy last post was about totally uninhibited imagination, so now I want to type up this brief post about an extreme creative restriction that I use as a prompt from time to time:Working in GrayscaleThis is pretty self-explanatory, but basically what I do is I bring in a special Lego bin that I’ve set aside that has NO colored pieces. Just black, white, and gray pieces. Here’s what that looks like:<a class="image-link image2 is-
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