By: Emma Caitlyn
NURSERY DESIGN TAKES THE PRIZE
Picture: RICHARD WALKER
Camira student Isabella with her prize-winning Lego Friends plant nursery design.
ISABELLA has been blitzing Lego competitions since she was just 4 years old, but she says her latest win is her best design.
The grade three Camira student was last week named runner-up in the national Lego Friends designer competition for her plant nursery construction.
“I had been encouraging my mother to buy me some plants, so I decided I wanted to build a mixture between a greenhouse and nursery,” Isabella said of her inspiration.
Luckily, her Lego-land fared better than some of the real flowers she planted in a wheelbarrow at home.
By expertly constructing a hinged roof on the greenhouse, Isabella was able to create a shop corner and rows of Lego flowers inside. Outside, birds are in wheelbarrows and barrels full of carrots.
With “only a tiny bit of help” from Lego-loving dad Carlo, who owns Bricks4Kidz Centre in Springfield, Isabella knocked the entire thing together two days before entries closed.
And while she was stoked to come second, the eight-year-old said the circus design she was dreaming up would be next year’s sure winner.