Time: About 20 minutes with an adult; ages 5–12, with permission to stop at one small result.
Child’s build goal: A small home for an imaginary creature, with a doorway, a roof and one feature your child chose; finish with a two-question tour .
Inspired by Hugo’s doghouse; the doorway and roof are this challenge’s design choices, not automatic completion rules.
Before you start
Bring paper and a pencil, open Blocks together in Free Build, and check the menu and saving instructions in Notes for parents below.
1. Choose a tiny resident · 4 minutes
Parent, read aloud: “Let’s invent a little creature and draw the doorway it would need.”
Child: On paper, invent a round moon creature or a long-eared cloud creature. Draw its house with a doorway and roof; leave out real names and real homes. Choose just one shape to start.
In your hands: A tiny sketch with one doorway and a roof.
2. Build a place to come home to · 11 minutes
Parent, read aloud: “You choose the walls and roof, and I’ll help you keep a doorway for our creature.”
Child: In Free Build, use the on-screen controls to place a small floor, walls and roof, leaving a doorway. Look from two sides together. Add one detail you chose: a pretend step, a colored roof patch or a moon-shaped sign. Save a first version and find it in My Builds; Magic is not needed today.
In your hands: A little house with one deliberate detail; a checked saved version if saving worked.
3. Give a short tour · 5 minutes
Parent, read aloud: “Show me one choice you made, then tell me why you chose it.”
Child: Use the two questions below for a quick tour. Save the final version and find it in My Builds. If saving failed, keep the canvas open and follow the fallback below.
In your hands: One design explanation, even if the build is still unfinished.
Tell me about it: two questions
- Which part helps your imaginary creature get inside, and why did you choose it?
- What did you change from your first sketch, and what would you try next time?
A small finish is enough
If the plan grows too big, build just a doorway or a tower top; no block count, stars or perfect result is required. Magic is optional; build by hand or sketch if unavailable. If My Builds is full, use My Builds → Export to keep an existing build on this device, then free a slot. Export build appears only after a save failure; keep that canvas open and export it. If local saving or export still fails, sketch the idea on paper; do not upload work or send it to the website for checking.
Notes for parents
Menu route: Free Build → "← Menu" → Magic Build; skip it if this week does not need it. To save, open the 📁 My Builds panel, select "Save this build", and check that your build appears there; select "Load save" on an older build to return to it.
Bring a computer or tablet that runs Blocks, paper and a pencil, with an adult alongside. This challenge asks for no registration, no work uploads and no child's email. Open Blocks for free building; this is your family's design goal, not today's mission or a mission-star requirement. If Blocks will not open, sketch on paper and build another day.
Magic is optional: an adult enters fictional objects only, never names, addresses, schools or other personal details. The exact text goes to SiliconFlow without names being removed. A new Magic generation replaces the canvas rather than joining an older build: save and check a version first, experiment separately, then reload your older build and borrow a detail by hand. Only “Let AI finish” adds to the current build. If Magic is unavailable, build by hand or sketch; a successful generation is not required.