Featured, Stories - May 27, 2024
Riverina kids shine in Lego Masters School Holiday Challenge
Children from around our Riverina communities captured their ‘happy place’ through creative Lego models at Intereach’s recent Lego Masters School Holiday Challenges.
Intereach provides opportunities for community members to enhance social connections, physical and mental wellbeing, and creative expression. The Lego Masters School Holiday Challenges allowed participants to do this in a supportive environment.
“Like Good360 and Lego, we are connectors.”
Amber - Senior Child, Family and Community Worker
Intereach recognised the importance of providing avenues for local school-aged children to have a creative outlet during school holidays. These activities help them gain skills and confidence to share their experiences on what makes them feel happy and safe within their community. The donation of Lego from Good360 provided the perfect foundation for this initiative.
Participants ranged in age and experience with Lego, but all shared their enthusiasm for the activity. Brock, 12, built a model of the beach he called ‘Beach Party’.
“The reason for building this is that I used to go to the beach when I was really young with my dad, and it has always stuck inside my heart,” Brock said.
“Thanks to their support, local children and adults have had the opportunity to unleash their imagination and forge connections within their community.”
Witnessing the enthusiasm and creativity sparked by these colourful bricks has been gratifying, offering participants a fulfilling outlet for exploration and empowerment.
Amber expressed her gratitude to Good360 and Lego, emphasising the transformative impact of their contributions.
“Lego Masters School Holiday Challenges have been a real success. It has given children a real opportunity to be creative, not just with the bricks themselves but through storytelling that is meaningful to them,” she said.
“Good360’s generous donation of a variety of Lego kits, both for use to represent their happy places and as prizes for participants, has had such a positive impact on the children involved.
“Thanks to their support, local children had the opportunity to unleash their imagination, become place makers and storytellers, and really forge connections with their community.”
Seven-year-old Phoebe constructed ‘Ariel at Rowers Club’. Based on Rower’s Park, a Corowa park, it includes a model of the bridge that connects the communities of Corowa in NSW and Wahgunyah in Victoria.
Phoebe’s model features a gum tree with Ariel’s dad climbing it to scare a kookaburra away. She cleverly used a photo of her own face to become Ariel, the Little Mermaid, in her design.
Rower’s Park is Phoebe’s happy place because of the bike track she rides around at the park.
Matilda, 9, based her model on the book Dogman, a half-dog, half-man character. Matilda constructed all the characters from the book and Dogman’s house, with an added extra character of a girl in the centre.
“Dogman is my happy place. It makes me really happy to read this book,” Matilda said.
She summed up the Lego Masters experience perfectly:
“I didn’t enjoy today – I loved it”.
Intereach thanks Good360 and Lego for their support in nurturing community connections and fostering creativity for children around our Riverina footprint.
Intereach runs two weekly Lego groups in Corowa, catering to adults aged 17+ and primary school-aged children. For more information and to get involved, call 1300 488 226 and ask to speak with Amber, or email family@intereach.com.au
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