We spent last weekend in Indianapolis. Lego KidsFest was the reason for our trip. It was amazing. It was huge. It was, according to the brochure, over three acres of Lego fun.

They had the convention center divided in to different areas. The first one we went to was the monochromatic build. Adam was so excited to see so many green bricks.

Here’s a picture I took at the end of the day of some things that were not built by us.

There were some incredible life-sized Lego models. I loved that the kids were able to touch (most of) them and see them up close.

One area was called “Creation Nation” and had a large outline of the United States mapped out on the floor. Adam and Dave each started with a blank baseplate and built whatever they wanted.

When they were done, they gave their creations to one of the staff members to place on the map. On Monday, this picture was posted on the Lego KidsFest Facebook page, showing the completed map after the five sessions of KidsFest were over.

There was a Lego Duplo build area. I think we probably spent most of our time there.

There was a big pile of bricks. Luke loved running through it. They had an even bigger pile of the regular size bricks, but it was more crowded and mostly older kids (plus those bricks aren’t exactly Maggie friendly).

They had some easy instructions on the tables for the kids to follow. Adam was pretty proud of his ninja turtle.

And of course, more models to play on and enjoy.

The models, whether made out of Duplos or regular sized bricks, were just amazing.

I can’t even imagine the creativity that goes in to building these things. They even had a fan under Batman’s cape, so that it was constantly moving.

They had a Ninja Turtle Pizza building challenge. The kids had a relay race to get Lego bricks to top their pizza. They had to use tongs to carry the pieces.

They was another area where they built cars and then raced them down ramps.

One of the last areas we visited was the Lego Art Gallery. Maggie was asleep in the stroller at this point, so she and I walked around while the boys made their art.

When they were finished they added them to the gallery wall.

I’m not sure what Luke made, but Dave’s is a little monster guy, and Adam made a car. I was so impressed with how he did the wheels. He placed them on an angle, so that it would look like they were turning.

It was so fun to see what other people made. Here are a couple of our favorites.

The whole event was run fantastically. It was sold out, but didn’t feel too crowded. The staff did a great job engaging the kids. I really loved how they had display cases in a couple of the areas, so the children could show off their work.

We took a ton of photos (no surprise there). I had a hard time narrowing it down to the ones you see here.

If we’re ever lucky enough to be near one of these events again (this one was about a two hour drive for us), we’ll definitely be going back.