Where is YOUR Lego? Completely out of control taking over your entire house or neatly stored and organized in your kids room?
Perhaps a better question would be, where haven’t you FOUND Lego? Under foot, in the vacuum cleaner, down the side of the couch, in the washing machine, in the car, in your purse, in your shoes, even in the oven?
As such, Lego storage containers and ideas are on my mind. Having spent days trawling the internet for what other people do I give you below my findings.
If your collection is out of control, your Lego pieces are seemingly multiplying on their own, you have a Lego fan whose collection needs to be kept safe from a younger child or you just have a Lego storage dilemma, check out the ideas below and take back control. I hope they help! Please also add your own ideas in the comments below.
Which solution will work best for you will depend on:
1 Large Plastic Storage Boxes
Our main random brick collection is housed in a large plastic storage box. But this is less than ideal for us.
One problem is that it is quite heavy to carry up and down the stairs as my son likes to build in the family room. Another is that it is hard to find anything in it without tipping it all out. And lastly, with the more recent additions to our collection of ‘sets’ rather than random blocks, we need some way to keep them separate.
However, for some, large boxes will be fine. Some Lego collections even come in plastic bins so you may not find the need to move them at all.
2 Small Plastic Storage Boxes
Smaller boxes avoid most of the problems of bigger ones as they are more portable and have less contents to wade through.
Plastic shoe boxes are ideal for housing your collection once it is sorted, by color or collection for example. Have one box for Star Wars, one for Toy Story etc etc.
Small boxes can be picked up cheaply at your local dollar store and are easy to stack under tables, on shelves or in closets.
As such, Lego storage containers and ideas are on my mind. Having spent days trawling the internet for what other people do I give you below my findings.
If your collection is out of control, your Lego pieces are seemingly multiplying on their own, you have a Lego fan whose collection needs to be kept safe from a younger child or you just have a Lego storage dilemma, check out the ideas below and take back control. I hope they help! Please also add your own ideas in the comments below.
Which solution will work best for you will depend on:
- how many pieces you have,
- what type they are (sets or random blocks),
- what space you have,
- what budget you have,
- how portable the collection needs to be and
- how your kids like to play.
1 Large Plastic Storage Boxes
Our main random brick collection is housed in a large plastic storage box. But this is less than ideal for us.
One problem is that it is quite heavy to carry up and down the stairs as my son likes to build in the family room. Another is that it is hard to find anything in it without tipping it all out. And lastly, with the more recent additions to our collection of ‘sets’ rather than random blocks, we need some way to keep them separate.
However, for some, large boxes will be fine. Some Lego collections even come in plastic bins so you may not find the need to move them at all.
2 Small Plastic Storage Boxes
Smaller boxes avoid most of the problems of bigger ones as they are more portable and have less contents to wade through.
Plastic shoe boxes are ideal for housing your collection once it is sorted, by color or collection for example. Have one box for Star Wars, one for Toy Story etc etc.
Small boxes can be picked up cheaply at your local dollar store and are easy to stack under tables, on shelves or in closets.