Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls. Learning, Play, STEM Activities, and Thing to Do! October 20, by Sarah Comments. This Lego candy dispenser uses pieces that are pretty easy to find. If not, maybe your kids can find another piece to substitute, or come up with an awesome design of their own!

This project has been updated and is featured in our new LEGO book. The candy dispenser below can be found in the book, along with a parts list and instructions. If your kids like building projects like this, they will love our new book!

Check it out here: Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have affiliate link. If you need to order these pieces, the red and black element is actually two bricks. You will need a 2 x 2 rocker plate and 2 x 1 rocker bearing.

Assemble the pieces like this. This will be a ramp for the candy to slide down. Find pieces that look like this. This will be the door that lets the candy out. Add two 2 x 6 bricks to each side. Add one 1 x 6 to each gray piece with holes.

Add two 2 x 6 bricks behind the ramp. Add two flat 2 x 10 pieces above the ramp as shown. Add two flat and smooth 2 x 2 bricks. These bricks will allow the arm that lets the candy out to slide back and forth. Add a 1 x 6 brick to the left side as shown.

Build the sliding arm as shown — one 2 x 10 flat brick and one 2 x 4 flat brick. Add height to the candy chamber. We used some window pieces so that you can see the candy level inside.

The jingling in the background is the dog scratching and making his collar jingle. Scroll down to the comments and check out the adorable candy dispensers that Suzi put together for her grandkids!

Since she needed to order the pieces, she made two fun color schemes and added more windows. They are SO cute. You can find a HUGE collection of our LEGO projects here: Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have.

This book makes a great Christmas or birthday gift! Ages , Ages , LEGO. Lisa This Pilgrim Life says. October 21, at 3: November 10, at November 22, at November 23, at 9: February 1, at 8: You can just improvise.

I too barely have any of these pieces. October 21, at 5: What an awesome idea! Now all I have to do is find all those pieces-I think my little brother will love this! October 22, at 1: Such a fun idea! I might not show my boys how to do it and see if they can figure out how to make one on their own. It would be a fun engineering project! Thanks for sharing the idea. October 22, at October 22, at 3: This is great, my daughter will love it! A perfect activity to fill a rainy afternoon.

October 22, at 6: My 8 year old daughter does things like this all the time repurposing her legos into planes stairs cars and other things. Of course girls would enjoy doing this! The name of my blog is Frugal Fun for Boys because I have four boys. October 24, at 8: Vanessa — I agree!!!!

I, too, have an 8 year old girl that can build just about anything out of legos. November 21, at For the benefit of the boys, we do need gender specific project ideas! At a certain age, or development level, boys crave opportunities to identify with other boys—by doing what boys their age are doing.

Right after that stage, they want to identify with boys older than themselves by doing what the older boys are doing; followed by imitating the men in their lives. The message that girls can do what boys do has been successfully publicized.

I applaud the author for both the content and the title of her blog! October 22, at 9: October 23, at 9: I realize the door is there, but I still see the potential for mass candy exodus. A 1 x 2 plate on the left edge on the underside of the slider should allow it to open far enough to let the candy out, but prevent the slider from being pulled all the way out.

It looks like there should be enough clearance above the ramp and the smooth piece on the right hand side will act as the stopper. I love the design, but the engineer in me saw possibility for a tweak to make it a little more kid-safe.

October 23, at 2: We tried it right away. However, there is actually not enough clearance. There is actually a low risk of emptying all the candy at once because of two things. Studying candy flow would be a pretty interesting physics project! It would be really fun to design different sizes of candy dispensers and compare the candy flow for each one.

Your idea of a stopper would likely work well on a larger model. Thanks for stopping by! October 24, at 9: Thanks for trying it out. I was hoping it would open just wide enough for a small amount to come out at a time, even if it took a little shaking. Our son gets frustrated when she does, so I figure it would be good to be proactive before trying it out.

I agree that candy flow would be an interesting experiment. My anecdotal evidence is that it flows too much when you want it to stop, and too little when you want it to come out. December 15, at 5: Thanks for the idea! I am a 53 year old lego fanatic. I have bunches of legos, and also a large collection of technics as well so who knows what will happen when I start adding gears and stuff!

Thanks again for sharing! January 19, at 5: October 24, at 1: October 25, at 2: October 28, at 5: I love all the creative building activities you have! October 31, at November 2, at 2: November 2, at 6: I made 2 dispensers with the Grandkids in mind.

I plan on giving these to the children as part of their Christmas presents. I changed your concept a wee bit to streamline it to cut down on the brick count as I will need to make about a dozen of them. Included will be all the pieces needed to build it, candy and instructions.

November 2, at 9: Wow, those are ADORABLE!! And do you mind if I add a link to your picture in the main body of the post? I think people would love to see these! November 2, at Window — you can get them from LEGO. I ordered some of mine from different stores on Bricklink at http: So you can see using 4 windows per dispenser can really be a budget buster.

Yes to adding a link to the picture in your main post. I took a 2nd picture side view which shows the difference from your build. I used built a 6 x 12 stud base to streamline it. Thanks again for the inspiration…. Forgot the link to the 2nd view…. November 22, at 1: Do you have instructions or a list of parts available?

I hate just giving kids junk, but I have enough time to order pieces for everyone. November 26, at May 23, at I would love to build one of these for my candy loving boyfriend.

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Would it be possible for you to share a list of all the parts you used? November 14, at Suzi do you have a link to the instructions you are going to put with this as I would love to do the same for my kids?? Any ideas on where you found all these pieces?

November 17, at 1: I used LDD Lego Digital Designer to make the instructions for the Candy Dispenser build. In order to view them you would need to download the application from the LEGO. I printed out the directions…but it was quite a few pages. Sorry, I see now about the LDD program.

I have downloaded it and would love the file. November 24, at 6: We are having a handmade Christmas this year and these would be great gifts for my son to make his cousins. November 26, at 1: You can find the links for 3 LDD Files here as well as 3 links to the screen shots for the parts list. To address the question about pieces. The link is posted above in a previous post. I would love to make these for my boys with your simplified instructions and parts.

Could you post them? November 7, at I also have 4 boys, and they would love this. I appreciate your step-by-step tutorial.

You make it look so easy. November 13, at 6: November 16, at November 21, at 2: My daughter and I are gonna make this today! November 21, at 9: My kids love legos and love candy dispensers, I am SO going to do this with them! My son loves LEGO and was checking out candy dispensers at the store the other day. I made a part list in Rebrickable. You can then export it to BSX and use Brickficiency to find the best prices on BrickLink. November 22, at 7: Andrea, I scrolled through allllllll the pieces on Pick-a-Brick lego.

You need a 2 x 2 rocker plate and a 2 x 1 rocker bearing. They are both available on Pick-a-Brick, but keep in mind that orders from Pick-a-Brick can take up to a month to arrive because they are shipped from Europe. I think this is a neat idea.

I might have to try and develop one of my own. Would be a fun little side project after my next Lego Church Project build. Also this is more for the other people posting. Which I see nothing wrong with. November 23, at December 15, at 2: He did some modifications though.

December 24, at 3: We have thousands of legos but still didnt have all the pieces. We do have imagination, however, and built an excellent substitute with multiple ramp levels and hinged window for the top as well. December 30, at 9: We were able to follow your instructions quite easily and made a few minor modifications to work with what we had. It works great and my son is thrilled! January 1, at 1: January 1, at 6: I just wanted to say thank you for posting this cool project.

My 8 year old daughter and I built one this afternoon. January 2, at Thanks so much for this. I just built this with my two sons and they loved it. We used the bricks we had on hand and used the only candy we had a available and that would fit. Tic tacs works great. January 4, at 8: I am 12 years old and I have just built this with my 6 year old brother and he found it easy peasey.

It is a great creation and whoever came up with it is very clever. January 12, at January 17, at 1: This is a really neat idea. My so is a few weeks shy of being 4 years old and said momma can we buy that kit and build it. January 17, at 2: Is it possible for you to list a complete list of each part needed. I would like to put together two kits of just the pieces and instructions to send to a couple lego fanatics. These projects are awesome! January 18, at January 18, at 7: January 23, at 7: I made this with my daughter and we love it!

Thanks for the fun! February 13, at I just made one of these with my younger brother and it was so cute! I hope its okay that I linked this page in my blog post about it. March 5, at This would be a great compliment to my lego phone-charging station on my desk at work.

March 19, at 2: I just went to print this project for my son, but it is 22 pages!!! Do you have a more printer-friendly version? May 7, at 6: I will be having my grand kids here for the summer. Do you have a list if the parts? May 9, at 6: August 5, at 4: This is super cool! September 7, at 9: October 5, at 2: Love the step by step instructions! Will have kids do this. I am sure they will enjoy building and the final outcome! May 3, at 4: As a parent I see how much we are influencing our own kids!

My son is looking at me creating all these face painting videos and started to do his own stop motion Lego movies as well! They are not ideal and he has a lot to learn… but he it trying hard and he is only 10 y.

If you would like to support his little creativity, please, Please, PLEASE … share his video, give him a like, or even subscribe! June 17, at 2: They are so excited to give it to Dad for his desk at work. July 2, at 1: August 7, at 9: November 24, at 8: February 22, at 1: June 18, at 1: You can see it here:.

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Comments Lisa This Pilgrim Life says October 21, at 3: If you go on lego. You can also use bricklink to buy the parts as well. Would be cheaper over all. I love doing similar builds with my kiddos. Here is a link to a coin-operated Lego candy dispenser.

Building one with the little one when the school bus shows up tomorrow. Hi Melissa, I used LDD Lego Digital Designer to make the instructions for the Candy Dispenser build. Hi Suzi, We are having a handmade Christmas this year and these would be great gifts for my son to make his cousins. Hi Rena, You can find the links for 3 LDD Files here as well as 3 links to the screen shots for the parts list.

Suzi, Thank you so much for answering all these questions! Thank you for this, my son and husband made it today! Do you have a supply list for the original version on this post?

It would be nice to have a picture of all the parts needed for this project. This is really a cool project! Would love to do this with my 2 young daughters!

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