LEGO Organization Everyone will Love
Like many five year old's, my son is a LEGO fanatic and we have TONS of it. For a super organized, type-A person such as myself I've had to get a little creative in order to keep it all neat and organized while at the same time, making it easy for him to play with, clean up *insert wishful thinking here* and find what he is looking for.After taking a look at all the LEGO we have, I decided that I needed to organize it into three distinct groups: Large pieces (brinks, blocks etc.), figures, accessories and other small pieces and finally instructions manuals.I purchased this 10 drawer rolling cart from Michael's. Each colour got it's own drawer (black got two since we have so much of it!). I didn't bother with labels but there are a lot of ready-made ones on Pinterest. I've saved a few of my favourites to our Pinterest board but there are lots of other examples you can find.
I also purchased this plastic case that is separated into several compartments of various sizes. This is perfect for all the figures, wheels, hats, hair etc. It was a pretty big job to sort all the pieces but these are the things that get lost easily at the bottom of boxes or drawers so I wanted to make it easy for C to find what he wants when he's building one of his creations.
My final stop was Staples to get a large three-ring binder and these awesome velcro pocket dividers. They were a little more expensive than the standard plastic binder sleeves but they have a secure closure so the manuals won't fall out. The binder is gong to get opened and closed and moved around a lot and I didn't want to have the manuals constantly falling out.
So there you have it! Three great solutions to get all that LEGO organized and off of the floors and tables. Total cost for everything was under $100 and the largest investment was our time. We did this over a few weekends. The sorting by colour is an easy job that the kids can help with. The effort was worth it if only to avoid stepping on LEGO pieces less often!