Just saw this group appear!! I have 4 young kids and my house is pretty small, and I need some help!
- Should I keep the original boxes, at the moment I do but they are just empty and taking up space
- I am trying to keep all the instructions in a folder… But
- either the sets (mostly either Harry potter (so expensive) or Lego friends (very cute) stay built or my youngest destroys them…
But then they all end up in the “Lego box” which is one of them yellow Lego container boxes with the 8 studs.
It feels very much like it’s kinda, make the thing on the box once, maybe play with it a bit, then it breaks and the parts arent looked at again.
I guess what I’m asking is with limited space, what’s the best way to make the Lego I already have, more accessible to the kids so I can take out the big floor plate and “just build” (cause buying new sets all the time is getting too expensive)
Thanks!!!
Boxes are only useful after many years if you intend to sell complete sets. If you have kids playing with the sets, chances are the boxes won’t be very useful even if you intended to sell the lego in future. I’d throw 'em out.
Once a set begins to break down (either gets played with and breaks, or kid loses interest, or uses part of the set to build something else), I’d break down the rest of the set completely and add the parts to a pile for them to play with.
As for sorting… if all your lego fits into one of those containers, then maybe you don’t actually need to sort. Let chaos reign! Give your kids some direction - “can you build a house/spaceship/crocodile/alien?” and let them hunt for parts. Kids are usually more creative and build with what they have, so part discovery isn’t a bad thing.
If you really want to sort and make it more organised, with the numbre of parts you have, I’d just sort by size (small/medium/big pieces). digging through a big pile of unsorted lego for that small 1x2 plate is probably the most annoying thing for a kid.
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