by Bob.Fornal
It’s a sickness I tell ya! While I was doing a little research for organizing Lego’s I got this crazy urge to go buy a bunch of them just so I can organize them all. Don’t worry I refrained.
Right now we have a rather small collection of Lego’s that were Hubby’s when he was a little guy. Then we topped those off with some my son received for his last birthday.
In anticipation of a growth of Lego’s in the coming years I gathered up a few ideas I really liked….
Meredith and Laura use bins that slide under the bed. A great idea and super easy clean up for those larger collections.
Josie took matters into her own hands and hacked an Ikea table. I like the fact that it gives the kids a specific place to play and provides lighting too!
Another Ikea inspired idea… Robinella uses the Trofast drawers to organize Lego’s with a table underneath. I like how the storage unit also serves as a shelf for completed projects.
Jess’ husband built this really cool table to store all of their kid’s Legos. It has 6 drawers on each side of the table. (Laura gave Jess the storage star for this idea.)
Oooooh, how pretty! Now being the organizing geek that I am, I would love to sort them all by color, and type, and size, and well you get the point. Not very practical for the little kids but storing Lego’s in compartmentalized boxes would be good for the pro’s.
Since I have this dream of doing a construction/tool type theme for my son’s room I would love to use this storage bin wall organizer to hold all of his Lego’s. Of course it would look nice if the Lego’s were all color coded too but that may be setting the bar a little high. :) Regardless I love the look.
For more Lego organizing ideas for the young and older check out:
Jeri’s post – 16 Lego Storage Options
Wiki How’s – Sort and Store Lego Toys
Evil Mad Scientist – How to Organize your Lego Bricks for efficient building
And if your kids have this many Lego’s we need to have a talk. :)
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Wish I had a husband to build me that awesome table!
If you are really itching to organize tons of legos and you find yourself in southeast texas…boy would I let you scratch that itch!! My 9 year old son, a LEGO obsesser has tons and tons and tons of them. One rainy Spring Saturday, I told him it was time to get them organized (by color). I told him I’d help him go through the giant bin, explained that it’d give him an opportunity to get reunited with ones he’d forgotten about…so after 9 hours (with only breaking to eat lunch) of sitting in the middle of his floor, watching an iCarly marathon and breaking bricks apart until my fingers were swolen and numb, we found th bottom of the giant plastic bin. This was in April…here we are 4 months later and although there are several bins of color coded LEGOS still in place, the bin is full again (he’s had a birthday since then and loaded back up). I took such pride in the ones that were organized and we had an ‘in progress’ bin for the ones that were being contstructed but bedtime came around. I want to give up on this LEGO organizing battle, but I’m not sure I’m ready to forfeit just yet, He is not a fan of the words ‘let’s get organized!’ but I get so stressed out about these little boogers! I can’t walk anywhere near his room without collecting at least one tiny little lego on my foot…that’ll make you mad! Each time I think he has them all picked up, I wake him up for school and find them stuck to him. I find them in the lint trap in the dryer, I find them in my room (still a mystery) and under the couch cushions. The women who say they married a LEGO nerd makes me lose hope that there is any end to this obsession in sight! YIKES! So, when are you coming over to scratch that itch? lol
sure, its great for bricks… any ideas for Technic or system sets like bionicle, hero factory and stuff like that?
i do the same sort of organizing. so like organize them by black bricks,grey bricks, technic bricks, clear bricks, yellow bricks, white bricks,red bricks, dark red bricks, dark blue bricks, blue bricks, light blue bricks,dark grey bricks, tan bricks, pink bricks, dark brown bricks, brown bricks, minifigure bricks, etc. i like the way you have the cups in the table because doesnt add hight and keeps it efficient. I also like the way you use the towers with the drawers. it is very important to have a lot of space for this awsome toy. try looking for ideas on youtube too!
I’m thinking of rigging a screen to fit on the end of my vacuum hose so I can suck up legos that have fallen under desks, behind doors and other hard to reach places. I have five kids who like to make pod racers and fly them and crash all over the house. Legos in every room. My favorite thing to do is to tease my 7-year-old by holding the entire vacuum over the bin of Legos and laughing an evil villian laugh!
saw an awesome Idea. “panty hose” over the vacume hose as a screen. Haven’t tried it yet, let me know if you try it.
Having been collecting for almost ten years I have somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 pieces and I recently realised that I needed to sort them. Being limited on funds I found that egg cartons are great for the smaller pieces and then sorting them out by color.
i liked the ikea table the most but couldn’t find an ikea table to do it to
MY 11 year old girl built a hotel out of lego that comes up to her waist with all of her legos.
We had to get our 7 year old’s Legos (a maniac for sure) out of reach of our 2 year old, researched for hours, really liked the Ikea table thing, but came up with a great option. We went to Lowes and got a 2′ x 6′ shelf piece, sanded and poly’d it and used big shelf brackets to mount it to the playroom wall at bar height. Added a 1′ depth shelf above it for finished creations not wanted to take apart yet… the Legos are organized in plastic shoe boxes by collection, i.e. Toy Story, Miners, etc. under the shelf stacked two high for a total of 8. Also included on the table are a couple of fishing organizers for those really small needed pieces and a gerbil house. Two barstools later he and a friend can spend hours there! Of course, the boxes travel to the living room, but clean up is easier because only parts of the collection are traveling :) Hope this helps!
I purchased plastic boxes for my son’s Lego’s at the Dollar Tree. They are small plastic boxes with hinged lids that come together on top. These have worked really well for him.
While we are still in the process of creating the perfect for us lego storage I have found the the lego bins (the ones that some of the basic kits come in) will hold tons more legos then are actually shipped in them so for now the younger of my boys is using his Lego bin to store “his” Legos in… That “his”/ “mine” thing will wear off and we will combine them
This is a cute invention that I found to help with organizing legos as well. Would be too expensive for the lego collectors, but great for the ones with just one or two kids that have just a small collection! Would make clean up time fun!
http://www.box4blox.com/LegoStorage.html
This would also work for Thomas the train, train sets. When my kids had that I bought a table with 4 bins underneith just so I would not step on them.
I married a LEGO nerd and between LEGO and books, that was over half of our moving truck! We looked for a house with some off-site LEGO play area, so I don’t have to see them all the time. We lucked out and got a detached garage that is too awkward to park in. We use rows and rows of shelving with a variety of containers. Pieces are sorted by type and color.
Legos – Toy Pick Up Tip – If they prefer dumping the Legos out to either play on the floor or in an effort to search for a specific piece, I recommend putting a blanket or sheet out on the floor. It makes clean up so fast and easy! Just pick up the four corners of the blanket and dump the Legos back into the container.
The blanket idea is great, unfortunately I don’t think my kids would ever give me enough time to actually get a blanket down first ! :)
OH MY GOODNESS! I can’t beleive the lady with the lego room! I have 4 boyz and TONS of legos – but I’ve never seen anything like that. THanks for these great ideas!
Enjoyed this! We will have to amend the under-the-bed storage now that John is crawling around and putting everything in his mouth.
We saw those blue bins at the Inventor’s Workbench exhibit at the Chattanooga children’s museum. I liked it so much I posted about it, but have yet to make one myself:
http://www.likemerchantships.org/2007/03/ultimate-inventors-workbench.html
Awesome Tanna, thanks! Your last link on having that many Legos made me laugh, now that’s a lot of Lego!
For the serious lego builder (PG 13 probably) check out this amazing way to store lego bricks.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/efficientlego
When I saw this I thought I should marry him. But alas I am already married to a lego messy.
I already have that link up there towards the end. ;) That is pretty much my husband’s thought process on organizing legos. I love that man!
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