My five year old has recently become interested in Lego. He now has about eight of the Lego sets. When he got them I put each set in it's own zip-lock bag to keep them organized. It didn't take long before all the pieces got dumped into a plastic bin and mixed up. When he needs a specific piece, he ends up dumping the bin out on the floor so he can look through the pieces. I am always finding tiny pieces on the floor or pulling them out of his sister's mouth. Has anyone found a good way to keep the hundreds of little Lego pieces organized and in one place?
Like a couple of others said, use a sheet or big cloth to put under the legos it makes clean up super easy. Both my sons and their dad liked playing with them. My oldest played with them as recently as last year - right before he left to go into the Air Force. We have lots of them and have had them for many years.
We have a heavy duty table cloth that we use. The older kids can only play lego's on this table cloth. This way if they dump the entire bucket out I can just pick up the table cloth while they direct the end of the table cloth and pour them all back into the bucket. This method literally takes like 10 sec for clean-up and I'm not stepping on the pieces in the middle of the night.
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Let me know if you do!
We TRY keeping them sorted into plastic bins by sizes, makes it easier to find specific things
We do a similar thing to Tedsmommy. Just use an old sheet and our son would dump them on that. We had two massive tubs of Legos by the time our son was done with it all. Never did find a better way to organize them but using fabric on the floor when dumping them sure helps with clean-up.
i was in toysrus for something with in the last year and stopped in my tracks when i saw they had a plastic... hmm totally can't think of how to decribe this. the plastic drawers that are part of one unit stacked up. real great description sorry. and the top had a lego base that you could build on. and bright primary lego colors on the drawers. Walmart sells regular drawer unit like that tha i'm hoping ot pick up soon, the top drawer was only maybe three inches high so you could put one or two sets in there like the lego cars, and the the bottom ones were much bigger and could hold all the extras to root through. I'll let you know when we get it if it actually works.
one and first rule we have is no legos in the living room. in his bedroom only. he is now 9 so we don't need that rule as much. buy one big bin and let him dump them in. trying to sort them will work for a short time but not when you have lots of sets. also now that my son is older he doesn't like to take apart his legos so now we have shelves of legos instead of bins!!!
At first we tried to keep the individual sets in their own box. That didn't last long because he played with them in different rooms and then started combining sets. Then a family donated A LOT of Legos to us but they were not organized by theme. So now we have multiple plastic shoeboxes to store the Legos in. Each box has a single color in it. These boxes are kept in my son's room. He's almost 7. They are stacked against the wall. When he is ready to build, he simply removes the lids and sits by the boxes. When he is done, the lids go back on and the boxes are stacked. All building projects occur in his room, away from his sister and out of my way. He can bring a finished project downstairs to play with or display if he wants. This system has worked really well for us. Also, we have an accordian folder to hold all of the instruction booklets.
Did you realize you asked a question that has plagued most moms?? Also, there is a French FaceBook page about stepping on the Legos. Ouch!
We had that problem for a very short time when K got interested in Barbie and J was still under 3. I have a long background in childcare so I know how important it is to keep choke hazards out of little ones reach. We made a rule that her Barbie's were in her room only.
Seeing a child choke on something like the tiny pieces of Lego is not going to be fun so tell him in his room only.
i bought two of these for storing legos. only one is currently in use. i just bought two due to shipping charges. it is called box for blox and it sorts by size. i think it works great.
The short answer is no. But, if you are worried about your daughter choking, I would put them all in a bag and bring them out for him to play on a table or some other area where you can help him clean up and control the spread of the pieces.
My 8yr old has legos galore!! We ended up just buying a rubbermaid bin and storing them all in there. We make him keep them in his room, since we also have a little one crawling around. That seemed to be the most effective way for us...Not to mention, very inexpensive!
