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The History of Lego

3rd Grade: Jonathan Simon & Steven Ma


9/21/2015
Spicewood Elementary
Ms. Lora Vechan
Introduction
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The Early Years…

It all started with a carpenter in Denmark named Ole Kirk


Kristiansen. Times were hard, Ole didn’t have much
money and he had to dismiss his last worker. Ole knew
this couldn’t get worse, but it did get worse. Sadly, he
lost his wife.
Putting His Idea Into Action

Ole was a special person and with his four sons he had
an idea. He was going to make wooden toys. His idea
made his children very happy. One of Ole’s sons,
Godfred, started to help his dad after school.
Making Money

The wooden factory was making a profit. Ole


also rehired his former worker. Things got
better. Someone was about to change his life.
A wholesaler came to the little workshop and
wanted to buy all the toys to put into stores
for christmas. Ole, Godfred and his worker had
a lot of work to do.
Losing Money

Ole lost something valuable right before Christmas. The


wholesaler wrote a letter to Ole telling him that he was
bankrupt and he couldn’t buy the toys he ordered.
A New Idea
• What the company needed was a
name. Ole wanted to convey the name
to “leg godt” which means “play well"
in Danish. He played with the words
and created Lego. He didn’t know that
lego in latin means “I put together”.
• Ole went to a trip to Copenhagen to
check out the machines they just
made. He saw this amazing plastic
molding machine and he couldn’t wait
to tell Godfred that he found the
biggest and most expensive machine
of all! Guess what? He bought it!
Lego bricks were born
Godfred was uncomfortable
spending the money on a
molding machine but he
understood that this one
machine took lego to a whole
new level. When the
company was first using the
machine, they made plastic
teddy bears but they thought
something was wrong. So he
rebuilt the molding machine
and made the wonderful
plastic bricks we have today!
Interesting Facts

• Lego DUPLO bricks are 8 times


bigger than normal Lego bricks
even though they connect
together.
• Almost every single person at
least owns 86 Lego bricks.
• Every single Lego brick Lego
sold in 2012 could stretch
around the world more than 18
times.
More Interesting Facts

• If you stack 40 billion legos it


could reach the moon!
• You can make 915,103,765
combinations with only six eight
stud bricks!
• Also, two eight stud bricks can
make 24 combinations. Three
eight stud bricks can make
1,060 combinations.
Q&A
Credits – Thank you!
• Writer-Jonathan Simon
• Co-Writer-Steven Ma
• Tickets-Jonathan Simon
• Presenter-Jonathan Simon
• Designer-Steven Ma
• Artist-Steven Ma
• Support- Ms. Vechan and
Jonathan’s mom

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