Lego

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DS7 has a mountain of Lego.
Recently if he gets a new set he builds it and plays with it (small world play). He’s into the Harry Potter and Star Wars sets start the moment.
He has loads of Lego city sets that have been broken into bits and jumbled. Our aim is to gradually rebuild these but it’s much harder with such a lot of bits to look through! We have achieved one set today.
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How do you store Lego?

When my son was around 7 I sorted his Lego into a tower of plastic drawers on wheels - colours, wheels, windows etc. Minifigures into smaller stackable boxes. Took two weekends but well worth it.The instruction booklets went into a plastic file box.

He’s 12 now and the drawers and boxes got wheeled out again recently from the garage/ loft to rebuild his Star Wars sets and create new models.

All in 1 big box. Instructions are in plastic wallets in a ring binder.

DS displays some of his sets wherever he can (we currently have the Hogwarts Great Hall, a dragon and something he invented, on the dining table

Other than that, if he wants them sorted some how, he can sort them.

DS has a Lego swoop mat, it's all jumbled up in there, instructions in a big plastic wallet. Most things are broken up, but a few vehicles are still in one piece

I tried dividing it all up and it was lovelyvgor about a month, month and a half, then jumbled again. He's quite happy with his it's stored and it's not my you, so it's all swooped up during the day and hung on a hook.

Tbh there's also Playmobil bits, kinder egg tat, random minifigures etc all bundled up in there, too.

DS finds it a bit overwhelming to search for the right piecemi the whole box so we split it down a bit.
All the castle themed sets in one box, the minecraft's ones in another box. When he was younger we did have the sets in ziplock bags within those boxes, but he's happy to have them mixed now, althoug figures are still in a lunch box in the bigger box.

Now hes moving to technic we have so e really useful boxes. The 9ltr ones have a tray that fits in the top to sort out the tiny bits. Not sets sorted out yet though as we inherited it as a big box.

We have a large box with compartments, so pieces are sorted by colour and some by function/type- wheels, connectors, covers, round pieces, windows, figures and accessories, etc. This makes looking for pieces much easier. The instruction booklets are stored separately and some built sets are kept to play with.

Our are all jumbled. My daughter likes to build the set (Harry Potter mainly) then play with it for ages, then it gets broken up and thrown in the big box of pieces. She keeps the figures seperate as she is into stop frame animation so uses the figures for that.

My son loves the 3 in 1 sets. The first model gets built and then the instruction books and remaining pieces for the next models go intona ziplock bag. He has a box full of the ziplocks and can easily find the right one for a rebuild.