Happiness comes in small coloured bricks

Author Abbie Headon’s latest book calls on adults to embrace the pleasures of building with Lego sets

A NEW book is encouraging adults to release their inner child and rediscover ways of playing with Lego.

Build Yourself Happy: The Joy of Lego play was written to bring joy into adult life in different ways from TV and social media, and to encourage people to play for the sake of it.

Penned by Southsea writer and publisher Abbie Headon, the book shows some of the fun things you can do with a small collection of Lego.

Abbie, 44, was excited when she was asked to write the book by publisher DK. She said: ‘I hadn’t played with Lego for quite a few years, I had some upstairs and I bought a basic creative kit.

‘I racked my brain about what would be a fun thing to think about.’

She invited friends over to try out some of the mindful Lego building activities from the book and was surprised that everyone got stuck in with few prompts.

This keen response was also seen at the launch event held by Pigeon Books.

‘I think there’s an inner child that Lego brings out very easily,’ said Abbie.

‘The launch event was really nice, I wondered “will a bunch of adults want to play with Lego?”

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