Arthur Grant, Co-Founder of Muddy Smiles, examines how those loveable LEGOs we played with as kids helped inspire our love for cars. Grant, a self-described tech-geek and father of three, launched Muddy Smiles with his wife, Natalie, to help parents take part in the simple joys of childhood with their family.   

If you’re a gearhead who takes pride in detailing, modding, and upgrading their ride, chances are good that your interest developed early. So many of us found our love for cars in childhood while playing with our favorite toys, piecing together LEGOs to create racers, and modifying sets for speed and aesthetics.

Making the journey from LEGO blocks to engine blocks is fairly common, in part because construction play during childhood encourages the development of skills that later transition well to hands-on hobbies and jobs. The skills boost kids reap from playing with LEGOs and other blocks are also great for their academic and social lives, so there’s plenty of good reasons to keep the tradition alive for your own kids – you’ll probably find yourself sitting down to help and having just as much fun as you did back then.
National LEGO Day

Wednesday, January 28th, marks National LEGO Day, the 62nd anniversary of the patent for LEGO blocks being filed by creator Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son Godtfred. In the decades since their inception, the colorful plastic blocks have become a near-ubiquitous part of childhood, ev...