DS5 got given some lovely Lego sets for his birthday. Today we started putting together a Campervan, it took about an hour but it was fun and he was very good at it, even his little brother 3 wasn't too unhelpful. I'd explained they needed to be careful with it whilst playing with it, but naturally within 10 mins pieces started falling off and I was getting requests to fix it. Only it's quite tricky to fix without dismantling the whole thing and starting over, especially given by this point pieces are behind sofa cushions, stuffed in the back of a lorry by DS3 etc.
I tried for a while but in the end I gave up as we are going on holiday tomorrow and I should really be washing, packing etc not playing with Lego! I put it back in the box, DS5 was a bit upset and I feel bad that after all that effort there's nothing to show for it.
But it's annoying, are we meant to try and keep all the sets together? If so, how are people doing that? Or do we just put all the tiny pieces from a multitude of sets in a massive box, make it a free for all and never build them again?
Are they supposed to just be kept as display pieces once built? My kids arent particularly rough in their play and were mainly just driving it around, putting the figures in and out, so seems wierd if you're just meant to stick it on a shelf out of reach.
Do I need to buy a box, a shelf, loads of little storage bags?!
How are we doing this? Appreciate I may be overthinking.