Every Christmas since 2011

The Chalkguy Christmas LEGO Drive

What started with Ben Glenn, the Chalkguy, and his daughters giving away two LEGO sets has become a Christmas tradition. Families, schools, churches and businesses collect LEGO every year so kids spending the holidays in the hospital get something new to build.

Only the best will do!

Drive by drive

Every Christmas, hundreds of kids.

Here’s how many kids got a new LEGO set from the drive each Christmas.

5,530 kids reached from 2018 to 2025
  1. 2018

    984

    kids

  2. 2019

    1,006

    kids

  3. 2020

    500

    kids

  4. 2021

    678

    kids

  5. 2022

    514

    kids

  6. 2023

    502

    kids

  7. 2024

    482

    kids

  8. 2025

    864

    kids

More than 5,500 kids since the first drive in 2011.

Host your own drive

Run a drive at your school, church or office.

Anyone can host. It’s a simple way to get your group giving together this Christmas.

1. Sign up

Tell us who you are and where you’ll collect. We’ll send you a donation box sign and the details.

Sign up to host

2. Collect LEGO

Set out a box at your school, church, office or neighborhood and invite people to give new sets and used LEGO.

3. Bring it to us

Drop it off at Mercy Road Church in Carmel, or ship it if you’re out of town. We deliver the sets to kids in the hospital.

Drop-off and shipping details

What to collect

New, unopened LEGO sets go straight to kids in the hospital. Used LEGO is welcome too: we sort and rebuild it for the ReBuild Shop, and every sale buys more new sets. LEGO brand only, please.

From past drives

Wrapped, tagged and delivered.

Drop-off day at Mercy Road Church, 2025.
Santa at the 2025 drop-off.
Bags of LEGO and a busy Santa, 2025.
Wrapped and ready in 2025.
Young volunteers in Santa hats, ready to help.
Kids helping unload in the snow.
The 2021 drive crew with a truck full of LEGO.
Bags of LEGO from a drive group in 2016.
Wrapped, tagged and ready to go.
Santa, ready to deliver in 2016.
Santa stopped by the 2021 drive.
Sets stacked high before delivery.
The LEGO drive crew. Santa showed up too.
Unloading donations at drop-off.
One more set for the pile.
Delivery day in 2017.
Santa helps load the truck.
Delivering LEGO for kids at Riley Children’s Hospital.
A team drop-off in 2017.
Drive-through drop-off in 2020.
Santa and Mrs. Claus joined the crew in 2021.
Kids meeting Santa at the drive.

Businesses can sponsor the drive

Past sponsors include Avis, FOX59, Costco, Meijer, Bricks & Bricks, Pattern and Brickworld. Want your company involved this Christmas? Get in touch.

This Christmas

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