Legos Legos EVERYWHERE!!!!

[lukenick1]

What creative ways do you store your kids Legos?? We have ours just thrown in a big rubbermaid container. They are very un-organized and there are too many! Yikes!!!! My kids love to play with them all the time but they leave them all over my house and its driving me crazy! Its the worst when I step on them....ugh!

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

We have the big Rubbermaid bin as well. At one time, we had these nice shelves for all the put-together Star Wars Lego vehicles he had. But now, most are destoryed, and in the bin.

I've tried in the past sorting them, but they end up mixed up. I think a bin is as organized as you can be with Legos.

 

[RadioNate]

more than one rubbermaid bin is our method. I also bought a cheap IKEA coffee table that is the "lego table." They all have to stay on there or in the bin. I toss strays. We have thousands of Legos and I hate them! DH, who loved Legos as a kid, keeps getting DS more.

 

[Sparx]

dbf is a very avid lego collector. he has probably over a million pieces. when we moved, he took all of his apart and ziplocked the individual sets together, and put them in a rubbermaid bin. he also has one of those big plastic sets of tiny drawers for model building or something like that? and he keeps tiny rare pieces in there, color coded. he also has a rubbermaid bin of mismatched pieces.

 

[Tikitoi]

I sold ours on craigslist!

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

more than one rubbermaid bin is our method. I also bought a cheap IKEA coffee table that is the "lego table." They all have to stay on there or in the bin. I toss strays. We have thousands of Legos and I hate them! DH, who loved Legos as a kid, keeps getting DS more.

I thought I was the only Lego hater! DH and my ILs are the ones who keep buying them for DS. And the strays at our house tend to find their way to the trash if DS doesn't put them up.

 

[3boymthr]

Several bins is about as creative as I get. We have one of those shelving units with the tilted bins. Actually we sort of sort the bins - by Legos and Bionicles . For a while we were sorting by Legos, Bionicles, Knex and Megablox but I got rid of anything that wasn't lego because, because, well, just because.

Completed ones stay on their bureaus until they fall apart.

Really, I don't think there IS a creative way to store them. Everyone I know stores them in a bin. Maybe sorting into different bins by color? Or size? Or brick vs wheel? Nah, not going to happen.

 

[lukenick1]

As much as I hate them...i have to admit they are very therapeutic for the kids. Beats them watching tv all day. My kids gets very creative with them but they end up leaving their creations on my kitchen table!!!!! UGH! If i dare take them off they fall apart and I have a HUGE meltdown to deal with. Legos and I have a love/hate relationship

 

[diznygirl]

I have tons of these:

They are stackable, and the drawers come out of them. They are big enough for big sets, or several little sets. The several little sets we can ziploc. We keep all the directions in the drawers as well.

And they are stacked in a closet out of sight!

 

[lukenick1]

Ahhh your right.....there is no way to be creative. The kids will just mess them up anyway...silly topic. Sorry

 

[pixiewings71]

DBF's parents have his old Lego's from when he was a kid, they have them out for the Grandkids now but the Grandkids aren't around much (they in PA, we live in CA) so they keep them stored in a big yellow round tub that has a lid, DBF's Mom has a piece of blue fabric that the legos go on, then they just pick up the whole "blanket", legos and all and put it in the tub for storage. Makes it really easy to put them away and take them out to play with them.

 

[Liberty Belle]

We have tons of Legos. In our family room we have a shelving unit on the wall. DS(6) keeps most of his toys here (and in a couple other storage units down there) and there's a big clear rubbermaid tub with his loose Legos in it. He puts his finished pieces (which never last too long) on the shelves above the tub. I now Lego makes storage units of some sort, but I don't know what they're like.

 

[JVL1018]

My son has 6 Lego bins. He always has pieces leftout on the floor of his room, and that grows and grows until I tell him that he HAS to put them away because he can't possibly be playing with them all every day, and he cleans up (leaving all minifigures out along with some sets and a random assortment of pieces) and then not so slowly but surely his floor becomes covered by them once again and the cycle continues.

Some of his stuff is together, the police and fire stations, one of his houses and one of his Star Wars ships, those all stay out and are lined up along one wall when his room is clean- the rest are destroyed and put in various bins.

Every so often we have to sort through the thousands of pieces because he decides he wants to build a specific set and that can take hours, no exxageration.
I am trying to get him to put whichever set he breaks into a big ziploc and then throw that bag into the bin. He tries. I have some bags that are all of one color, but I would have to dedicate a large portion of time if I wanted to do that for al of them, A project for another time..

I hate them all over his room, but I love that they allow him to be so creative, so I keep buying them..

 

[3boymthr]

Well... DH has come up with a creative solution for the clean up anyway.

He's going to get the kids their very own shop vac. JUST FOR LEGOS

 

[golfgal]

We have a small room in our basement that is just for legos

 

[SCHBR'smom]

DH once built a shelving unit to hold shoebox size rubbermaids that he sorted all the legos into based upon different sizes, shapes, etc. Yep, the kids mixed them all up. Then they were combined into a rubbermaid. Pain in the behind to find what you were looking for. They are now stored in DS's room in an IKEA pax system with 4 pull out plastic drawers. They are sorted, but not as anally sorted as the first time. Easier to find things, but not too hard to put up. The finished "creations" can be kept on DS's desk. Strays still pop up all over the house. Saw one in the suburban this afternoon.

 

[ChrizJen]

DBF's parents have his old Lego's from when he was a kid, they have them out for the Grandkids now but the Grandkids aren't around much (they in PA, we live in CA) so they keep them stored in a big yellow round tub that has a lid, DBF's Mom has a piece of blue fabric that the legos go on, then they just pick up the whole "blanket", legos and all and put it in the tub for storage. Makes it really easy to put them away and take them out to play with them.

That's actually a great idea! It's like a "mat" for playing with the Legos, and if you can teach them to keep the Legos on the mat only, then cleanup is a breeze! I might have to give this a try!