Our story
It started in the LEGO aisle at Target.
What started as one family’s Christmas lesson has grown into a movement of kindness, creativity and hope, one brick, one child, one community at a time.
2012
Giving means giving something you love.
Ben Glenn, known to a lot of people as the Chalkguy, took his daughters Christmas shopping and told them this trip wasn’t about getting toys for themselves. It was about giving to someone else. But once they hit the toy aisle, they wanted everything.
So he let each of them pick out a LEGO set they really wanted, then told them they were going to wrap them and give them away. It wasn’t easy. There were tears. But eventually something clicked.
The drive served 2 children in 2012 and 10 in 2013.
Since then, through churches, schools, families and friends, the Chalkguy Christmas LEGO Drive has recorded 7,292 children served across its annual drives from 2012 through 2025. This adds annual service counts, not unique children; a child may be counted in more than one year. Recipients have included children reached through hospitals, schools and community charities.
Year by year
Children served, year by year.
Every Christmas since 2012
The Chalkguy Christmas LEGO Drive
Every Christmas, the drive puts new LEGO sets in the hands of kids in the hospital. Host one at your school, church or office.
Only the best will do!
Watch
The Give Your Bricks story
Join in
Three ways to help.
Host a service event
Bring a hands-on LEGO project to your team, church or school. We bring the bricks and run the whole thing. Your group builds sets for kids.
Donate your LEGO
New sets or a bin of used bricks. Drop off in Carmel, schedule a pickup around Indy, or ship from anywhere.
Give money
Every gift buys brand-new sets for kids in the hospital. Give by card, Venmo, PayPal or check.