How To Organize Legos By Type

In the first of a series of features, the brothers brick will show you how our contributors organise their. You are right about akro mills , they fit perfectly for legos.

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Until now, lukes lego pieces have been stored in an overflowing container.

How to organize legos by type. Using this system to sort lego you would separate your lego pieces by both type and color. A boy, age seven, and a girl, age four. We used a very large beach towel and dumped out about half of his legos, sorted, and then did it again once those were organized.

I had each set in a ziplock bag, usually a gallon bag or two gallon bag, and kept the instructions in the bag as well. A good place to start would be to separate bricks, plates, and other lego parts into three different containers. Sort lego by color & type:

My son would take apart old creations and make new things. Those 22 bricks that you separated by color in the color method, and had all together in the type method, will now be separated by both type and color. Then later you decide you want to make something youve never made before.

Simply add in some of the drawer dividers, and you've got a place for every last brick. If you are holed up at home, you may finally want to sort your huge pile of random lego. We would place all of the legos on a sheet then wed scoop up the sheet and put it all in the bin for easy clean up.

Inside of the large boxes there could be any degree of samller organizers. I find it helpful to sort the pieces according to sequence, ie i have 6 akromills boxes one box are just for 12 and its variety, 12 w/ 1 hole, next 12 w/ 2 holes, 12 with studs, clips, cross hole etc. Use a blanket or towel to hold lego pieces while you explore each type so you can easily return them to their specific bin or drawer.

I personally was tired of helping my kids find one microscopic piece in a sea of thousands, so i decided to take action and sort by piece. The first would be to sort the pieces by color. As i mentioned, we tried so many methods and ways to organize lego (on amazon or walmart) sets.

The variety of lego kits, themes and pieces can seem daunting, and many people ask me how should they organize their legos. Intro to organizing, sorting, & storing lego bricks. If you have an extremely particular builder who creates often and would work well with a very detailed system this system might work very well for them.

1) organize & store by set. There are a number ways to do this. Using a graphic design program (picmonkey, illustrator, canva, etc), create labels that include the lego kit name and number, as well as the picture (if desired).

Simply segregate each piece and place them into a container for that specific color. While i love the creativity that comes with lego, i hate finding small pieces everywhere. We just found things that work for us and our kids.

Lego storage for small collections. First you need to dump out the legos. You can start out by dumping all of them at once, or by dumping out a certain amount at a time, sorting and then dumping out more.

To organize the legos in these containers, you will first need to sort it out first. I hope these strategies and ideas have inspired you to come up with your own functional lego storage method. Use google to find and save images of your lego kits.

When we first brought legos into the house, i was determined that i was going to keep them organized by set. The second option would be to sort the legos by set. We have a few different ways we organize lego bricks in the steininger household.

The answer is, it depends. the answer is, it depends. children are all different, and it is important to set up a system that your child (or children) will use. It did not work for us to store their lego by sets. Print the labels onto cardstock or photo paper and trim down with scissors or a.

Next you'll need some storage containers. Well wrap up with some additional tips and tricks from experienced lego builders. This week i tackled lukes lego collection and gave him a color coded lego organization system that he loves!

The next time wed just pull the the sheet with the legos out of the bin and set the sheet on the floor again with the legos. Then i would keep them in the fabric bins in our ikea kallax unit. In the process, we did find a few things that didnt work for us, but they may work for your kids.

I have done a lot of reaserch about the best way to organize lego bricks (stop laughing at me). In my house, january is the month to get clean and get organized!

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