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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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!
Awesome Tanna, thanks! Your last link on having that many Legos made me laugh, now that’s a lot of Lego!
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
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!
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 ! :)
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.
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.
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
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
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.