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LEGO Balloon Race Cars

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What better way to start the day than to build Lego balloon race cars? Our homeschool enthusiasm has slowed to a crawl lately.  Maybe it's because one gray day follows another, every day is cold or colder, and we have to spend 20 minutes putting on layers of clothing just to walk to the car. I spotted this idea on Pinterest the other night and we just had to do it! 3 Supplies Needed:  Extra bucket o' Legos, Balloons, Creative Kids After a half hour or so of constructing our own individual race cars, (ok - so Bram and Kylie played while I built all three of ours, but that's to be expected) we built some pretty awesome cars (if I do say so myself), but then we needed to come up with a way to attach the balloons.   We built up the back of each car and created a hole in each of the back stacks to insert balloons. It is also important to insert the balloon with the air escaping out the back.  Unless you want the car to go backwards...