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Lego & Duplo Pregnancy & Baby Announcement Idea

Keith Nallawalla by Keith Nallawalla
15/Jul/2020
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Duplo Lego baby announcement photo idea

We recently announced that we are having a baby in January 2020. We are very excited! We have been dying to tell everyone our exciting news but wanted to keep it pretty quiet until we hit the 12-week mark and had the 12-week scan to ensure everything is going well.

Luckily for us, it’s all gone smoothly so far.

I wasn’t sure how I was going to announce this, but I have been hoarding Duplo for the past few months, including buying a little pizza shop set that came with a bearded man with a hairstyle similar to how I used to do it. This was so our kid will have a Duplo figure of me, their dad! I was planning on keeping this figure sealed until they were older, but oh well we eventually decided to use it for this Facebook pregnancy announcement.Duplo Pizza Stand Beard Man Pug Dog Set 10927

A few months ago I also tried making my own Duplo house interior but I couldn’t do what I wanted as I didn’t have enough yellow Duplo bricks. The best way I found to get more of these was to get a bundle off eBay. To my displeasure, the best bundle I could buy had 50% blue pieces as well, which I was not very interested in. This later worked out well when I realised I had enough blue to make a backdrop of the sky.

I think this all worked out really well that both of these colours came into good use when building this exterior.

I had previously bought a little Lego set at the supermarket to make an orange Lego cat as we have an orange cat called Ronald Fleaseley. I also made a representation of our white and orange kitten Ed.

Whilst I do own two lego babies, both are blue but one has a decal on the chest that is more distinctly boyish, so I didn’t use that in the picture as we don’t know the gender yet. To try and make the blue of the baby stand out less I put the baby in the pram. I do hope it’s a boy though!

If I could do this over, I’d have tried a bit harder to make the second Lego cat look better, I would have moved the door up a level as you can’t see the bottom of it anyway. I would have also re-arranged the clouds a little better.

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Lego & Duplo Baby Announcement Tips

Lego Duplo House behind the scenes

If you are planning to have a baby. Start hunting down a baby Lego or Duplo minifig as soon + representations of yourselves as fast as possible. We just used a random brown-haired figure for my partner here, if we had actually planned for this to be the announcement we might have found a newer style Duplo woman to match me. Also, try and make representations of your pets!

Try and make a background. As you can see in the picture above, I built it into the back wall of the house so I’d use less blue bricks. I think this really helps add some depth or realism to the picture, rather than just using a white wall or something else as the background. I also used some non-blue pieces behind the ultrasound photo as I ran out of the dark blue ones.

Also try and work some props into it, like how I’ve included the bin. I also put some furniture inside in case you could see in the windows. I think Ryan “The Brickman” McNaught from Channel 9’s Lego Masters would like those touches.

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Keith Nallawalla

Keith Nallawalla

Just a guy with a nice home. Keith is lives in Melbourne, Australia and works at the digital marketing agency WebOracle. Keith has been working in digital marketing since 2009 and has two kids and two cats and has a fondness for 80s and 90s pop culture and junk food.

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