Who is the LearnToLearn Core Set aimed at?

It is part of LEGO® Education's range for schools and learning groups, built for guided, repeatable building tasks with simple basic shapes rather than a home-play age range.

Does the set include any minifigures?

No. The set is made entirely of standard bricks in orange, yellow, blue and green, with no minifigures or theme-specific pieces.

How many pieces and shapes does the set contain?

It includes 2,018 pieces in total, drawn from just 51 different shapes, a deliberately narrow selection chosen for easy recognition and sorting.

Educational and Dacta

LearnToLearn Core set

The LearnToLearn Core Set 45120 belongs to LEGO® Education's Dacta range, a line built for classrooms rather than home shelves. With 2,018 pieces drawn from only 51 distinct shapes, it is designed for repeated, guided building tasks rather than a single showpiece model. There are no minifigures – the brick itself is the whole point.

Set number: 45120
Year: 2014
Pieces: 2,018
Minifigures: 0
Theme: Educational and Dacta
Different parts: 51

What can I build with it?

View the official building instructions at LEGO® ↗

Parts list 51

As BrickLink list (XML)

Import on BrickLink: Wanted → Upload, upload the file (or paste its content), pick a Wanted List and add the parts.

Description

Made for the classroom, not the toy aisle

LEGO® Education Dacta sets such as this Core Set are aimed at schools and learning groups rather than home builders chasing one finished model. Instead of following a printed instruction booklet, the set is meant for open, teacher-led building: an educator sets a task, and pupils solve it using the same limited set of basic shapes. That structure trains listening, following spoken instructions and working confidently within a small, well-sorted pool of parts, an approach used across many brick-based teaching programmes.

2,018 pieces built from only 51 shapes

The unusual figure here is the ratio of total pieces to unique shapes: 2,018 elements come from just 51 different parts, far fewer than most sets of similar size. That concentration is deliberate. Fewer shapes mean pupils recognise pieces faster and groups can share the same handful of bricks without hunting through a mixed pile. The four main colours, orange, yellow, blue and green, add a further layer of quick visual sorting, useful when several children are building from the same tub at once.

No minifigures, just the brick itself

There are no minifigures and no theme-specific pieces in this set; everything is built from standard bricks in four core colours. That keeps it flexible for almost any classroom exercise, from simple towers and walls to open-ended tasks set by a teacher, and leaves room to invent new challenges as skills develop. It also suits daily school use in practical terms: the parts are sturdy, easy to wipe clean and stand up to being built and taken apart repeatedly across several classes.

Checking the parts and colours on this page

Anyone topping up a classroom set, replacing a lost piece, or simply wanting to know exactly what is inside can use the full parts list on this page for the LearnToLearn Core Set 45120. It lists each of the 51 shapes individually with quantity and colour, making it straightforward to check stock or condition for a set that is likely to stay in daily rotation for years.

FAQ

Who is the LearnToLearn Core Set aimed at?: It is part of LEGO® Education's range for schools and learning groups, built for guided, repeatable building tasks with simple basic shapes rather than a home-play age range.
Does the set include any minifigures?: No. The set is made entirely of standard bricks in orange, yellow, blue and green, with no minifigures or theme-specific pieces.
How many pieces and shapes does the set contain?: It includes 2,018 pieces in total, drawn from just 51 different shapes, a deliberately narrow selection chosen for easy recognition and sorting.