Playing with Lego is a timeless activity. Whether you have a premier 1000 piece set, or just a trusty set of classic bricks, it's a great activity to keep both your hands and brain busy.

Lego is still so fun into 2024, that kids aged 8-14 in Kindersley raced to sign up for Lego Club at the Kindersley Library.

Organizer, and assistant librarian in Kindersley Michelle Yates spoke with WestCentralOnline after the club's first meeting back on Tuesday. It's been a fun program to pick-up, but Yates had to give all the credit to retired Kindersley librarian Marilyn Shea for the starting the fun a few years back.

"She seen that other libraries were successful with a Lego club. So they had done all the applying for grants and stuff to start a club," said Yates as the pandemic came along and put a dent in things. 

They began efforts to get the club started up again in the middle of 2022. Yates is thankful to see the club thriving now entering another year.

"She did all the hard work, the previous librarian with applying for the grants, and I get to do the fun stuff! Actually getting to work with the kids and the Lego." 

Yates did her best to detail what an average day of Lego Club looks like.

"The kids, most of them are old enough they walk over after school, and then head on upstairs where all the tables are laid out, all the pieces, little figures, anything that you could use to spark that creativity."

Yates explained the kids can either free-build, or take on a more challenging project tabled by the leader.

"Not all the children want to do a challenge, because some just want to free-build, and it inspires them. But some of them are looking for inspiration, so I always have a challenge each week."

Yates chuckled when asked to recall some of her more memorable "challenges".

"I think last year, the one that got the biggest response was the vehicle one. I set up a ramp for them, they had to build a vehicle to see who's would go the furthest. Then they would go back to the table, and reconfigure their vehicle," Yates exclaimed gleefully. Other challenges included building something that would survive a simulated earthquake, and an upcoming one for the club will be "Get your way out of the canyon".

You can view some photos from Tuesday's first gathering in the gallery below. If the first day was any indicator, it looks like some fun times have been pieced together at the local library.