To ask how often you vacuum your DC's room? Lego.

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If your DC constantly play with Lego or Sylvanian Families or anything else with self-multiplying tiny pieces. How often do you vacuum in their room? And how do you get them to keep it reasonably tidy?

I hate that rattling sound of a tiny piece of lego being sucked to a dusty grave. Literally, money down the drain.

Give them a warning of half and hour, if there are still pieces of plastic on the floor just vaccum it all up.

Every 2 weeks my cleaner hoovers their rooms. Anything on the floor gets hoofed into toy boxes before she comes.

Ds is fortunate to have a playroom so we have a few tables - lego, arts and crafts and sylvanian. It has wooden floors so just as much a bother to clean. everything played on the tables really helps.
If he wants to work on the floor then I have those drawstring bag things. so when its cleanup time just pull the drawstring.

KC225 you do realise you can rescue it from the vacuum cleaner?

My husband sweeps everything up with a dustpan. Now I know why the Playmobil box is full of crisps, dog hair, yoghurt lids and BP receipts.

You need stuffels. I'll find a link in a mo. Gorgeous round play mat with a drawstring, you just pull the strong and all the Lego is bundled up and I hang it on the back of their doors. We have 2 for Lego and one for Sylvanians. I'm tempted to get a mini one for the magformers too. They're made from sailcloth or something in England!

www.stuffel.co.uk/

DS has the Lego train track almost permanently on his floor. A table or bag wouldn't work 😭

Use the hose attachment. Put a sock over the end and secure with an elastic band. No lego goes up the vacuum.

All floor Lego gets swept up and put in a sorting box. I keep a dustpan and brush in the box for this purpose.
Then hoover the room.
I have this for hoovering the boxes of Lego.

I’ve found it really helps to keep a routine up with Lego where each week it gets tidied up. Special pieces and builds can be kept, but he has to look over them and put any he’s finished with in the sorting box that eventually gets sorted back into categories.

if the track is on the floor all the time but not being played with all the time then it’s probably taking play space from other toys/other builds. And it gets stagnant. If you take it up then he has the option to put the track together differently.

I sweep my carpet first with a soft brush. Save as many Lego's and miniature tea cups as I can.

DS room gets hoovered twice a week (once by cleaner. once by me).... his playroom on the other hand.... Probably before Christmas

DD is now 16 but if it was on the floor during daily hoovering (hard floors) then I just shoved it to the side.
More Playmobil than Lego tbf but apart from a few limbs and flowers don't think we lost much.

If I added up the minutes I have spent picking up the same Playmobil bat, which is the size of a stud earring, I reckon I could have probably completed an online degree. This is the daily sacrifice of raising little humans.