Organizing Legos

This week we (read I) spent two days sorting and organizing legos. I only did a basic sort because - let's face it - the kids are going to mix them all back together tomorrow.

However, I'm hoping to take them to the Lego store this weekend so I wanted to have a good understanding of which items we had plenty of and where there were gaps in our collection. It was good to see because I would have guessed wrong in a few areas! I decided to sort our legos by basic size and function. Since my kids aren't going to be designing fabulouse 'scapes (yet) where the block colors are relevant, I decided to sort them according to basic sizes while they are learning to build. I'm sure the sort method will change eventually but this is where we are today.

First, I pulled out all the big one-of-a-kind type bricks that obviously came in a kit when owned by the previous owners. All those (and some smaller ones that I didn't realize I should sort out) went into this big ottoman that we use as a seat around our big red table. We have three of these and previously all the legos were in the three ottoman storage units. I found them at Kohl's during the back to school season and they were being marketed to kids going to live in a dorm. Whatever! I knew they'd be perfect for our little room!


I found these little trays earlier this week in the dollar spot at Target. Although I likely wouldn't feed my kids anything off them, I knew they'd be great for holding bits during craft time. Turns out, they also make great devices to sort legos! Four drawers of my 9 drawer Sterilite tower have legos stored in them like this - temporarily until I find permanent storage bins for little bits.

Then the bottom four drawers hold basic lego sizes. Bottom one is plates, next is long and lean (all the legos that are only one across), next drawer is wheels and the top drawer of the four is all your basic block sizes.

Next I have to show you Ashlee's latest creation. Here is the front.

Here is the back. I thought it looked pretty awesome.

Then there is Case. I spotted one creation the other day and thought it looked awfully cool. It looked to me like he'd created himself a hamburger. So I mentioned to him that I thought that was mighty cool. He replied, "Yeah, it's the Krusty Krab burger!" Then I walked in to the room today to see the burger in this little vignette. Love that!