Do you sort Lego by colour?

[BabyInTheJungle]

Sorry for the boring question

Months ago we decided to sort DS's Lego to make it easier to play with. I read online that although sorting by colour looks good, the 'proper' way to sort is by brick type as you will need a particular type of brick and once you identify the type you can find the colour you need more readily.

Literally HOURS AND HOURS of sorting later and we are nowhere near done, sorting by brick type is incredibly slow and boring as hell.

I'm just wondering if others have sorted by colour and if it made it easier to play with?

If your lego is for adult use, crack on. If your lego is for the use of children sorting lego is for the insane.

Children are children. Lego is lego. Lego + Children = Mess that takes over your house.

It does not equal order and control. I swear there is lego in every room in this house and i will be finding bits 5 years after DS eventually leaves home.

This is the natural order of things that can't be interfered with.

We currently sort by colour but also have certain bits in a special piece sorting box and have a box of flat pieces, and a box of wheels.
Sorting by colour never worked for DS1 who always built by instructions but works really well for DS2 who is really visual and builds fantastical creations from his imagination.

My dd and myself sorted ds Lego into colour and type. It took us all day but we both like sorting jobs. Ds went to play with it the next day and tipped it all together. He said he preferred it that way. Maybe we should have asked him first.

He’s 5, he will have a limited concentration span for Lego, sorted or not sorted. Just let him play creatively. My DC had more patience with Lego from around 7.

@Thiswayorthatway

He’s 5, he will have a limited concentration span for Lego, sorted or not sorted. Just let him play creatively. My DC had more patience with Lego from around 7.

My then 5 year old had a huge attention span for building Lego sets but no patience for finding pieces, which was exactly why we started sorting.

Sorting takes out all the fun!

Also he's 5 so leaving him to sort it himself will get precisely nowhere!

I had all of ours sorted by shape as I thought it would be easier to find pieces, but the DC were too young to sort it by shape. It was much easier for me to say "all the yellow bits in this box" and they had no excuse not to do the majority of tidying. They're older now so I rally should try to switch the system back!

People sort their Lego?

Glorious jumble here.

People have time or inclination to sort Lego?