I think I'm in love...
It’s clearly no secret that I like to be organized. And lately when I have been in the choo choo room (aka the playroom), I get super annoyed when I look at the lego table (*) and I see piles of legos all mixed up. Like how is that even fun? There is no where to build and how can you even find anything? Who knows. I finally found some bins I liked at Target (I bought 3 sets of 3 and stacked them) and went to work. L was super into helping me sort his legos by colors, which I loved. I mixed the duplos with the regular legos because I even I think that it is too much to sort them both ways! I put the grey in with the black, but other than that every other lego color has it’s own bin (**).
And yeah, I am aware that the second L and his friends get in this room, my organization system will explode all over the room. Who cares? I can go back up there and resort them! It doesn’t take a genius to separate legos. Oddly enough, I find it very relaxing.
Tell me, how do you store your legos or other toys with small pieces? Do you like it? Does it work?
(*) We turned the train table (the table got to be too small – we have a huge set-up on the floor) into a lego table by putting lego boards down in it for building.
(**) In case you ever do this with different sized bins, I should tell you we had the most red, blue and black / grey legos.
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My problem is that my son builds stuff with his Legos and then doesn’t want to take them apart. So I have Lego creations all over the place. I honestly don’t know what to do with all of them! But I should get some bins like this. His Legos are all mixed up. I think it would also be cool to separate the different sizes/types…since he follows directions a lot and it can be really hard to find the right piece.
Ohh that would be a good idea. There are so many different sizes though! I would like to keep sets in labeled plastic bags and the rest in bins like I have. All the sets we have are all mixed up now, but next time they get put together (and then taken apart), they are being stored in bags!
Great idea! When I have these things called colorful t o y s all over my house…I am going to copy this!
Great idea ! My 6 year old Owen is a Lego fan big Lego fan that’s all he ever does I think he go about 12 Legos for Christmas and his birthday ( jan 2)!i love this idea Lego is everywhere Mitch , island his room and downstairs ! It’s crazy thanks for the idea! I’m an organizer and that is great idea ! Allison
This would be a great way to store puzzles too rather than putting them in a toy box and the pieces get lost or mixed in with other puzzles.