Animals & Nature

Ducks, cats, fish, trees, flowers, small gardens and whole landscapes: this category collects every model that shows something alive. The duck with 32 bricks is the best-known example on lay-a-brick and a good place to start; the tree and the sunflower come next. Every model includes its building instructions.

Animals and plants made of square bricks work when you reduce the shape to a few features: beak, eyes, tail. Slopes round off wings, backs and chests, round bricks become trunks and stems, round plates become flowers and eyes. Two shades of green make a treetop look leafy rather than like a block. The article on building ideas with fewer than 50 bricks belongs here too, since many models in this category fit within that limit. Rebuilt one of them? Mark it as Built it.