Follow the LEGO® Brick Road!

Festival participants made their mark on the National Mall. With at least 10,000 5x5 inch green LEGO plates and nearly two million colorful LEGO bricks, participants challenged their creativity to come up with designs to fit into a mega map of the United States. After the final plate was laid, the map filled a platform the size of a basketball court.

Free to build what they wished, the festival participants spelled out their initials, made symbols, or constructed their state or national flag. Some went much further, creating three-dimensional national landmarks.

"Whoa!" shouted Isabelle from Virginia as she, her mom, and brother Josh joined in the building process. Families came from near and far, thousands of people at a time, standing shoulder to shoulder around tables topped with buckets of LEGO bricks. Each group worked like a surgery operation team. "I need a yellow!" someone announced, and soon enough a yellow bricks was found and passed down the table. Adults lent a hand to fingers too little to manipulate a brick and placed it in the way their child envisioned.

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LEGO Creation Nation energized a flow of creativity which spread to other festival activities. Participants added to the flow with inspiration from workshops and performances. The manifestation of creativity in the fluid mosaic became the talk of the town, a national media story, a topic in blogs, an inspiration for all, and a touchstone of collective creativity in young hearts which shall fire children's imaginations for a long time to come.

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