Lego!

londonsurrey

mrcow wrote: »

My son has well over £2k worth of Lego

I wonder if burglars steal Lego. Does anyone have any stats on this?

mrcow

londonsurrey wrote: »

I wonder if burglars steal Lego. Does anyone have any stats on this?

They'd be welcome to it if they tidied it up! They'd have to assemble it all for it to be worth anything though.

building_with_lego

londonsurrey wrote: »

I wonder if burglars steal Lego. Does anyone have any stats on this?

Wouldn't it be a bit noisy in the swag bag :huh:

pogofish

I think I was that kid who loved Lego!

I am also old enough to have had a proper tea chest to keep all my Lego in. I went way beyond the specific designs and started building my own stuff - in fact, one of my mother's proudest souvenirs of my childhood is a press pic of the time I built a great-big Lego structure.

Get your kid something they can rummage and create from, let the only "sorting" be their imagination!

bylromarha

Find this thread really interesting.

DS has been into lego since 4, he's now 7.

All the sets have been dumped into a large underbed storage box when he's done with them as, to quote OH, "that's what you do with Lego, the fun is in making things from imagination" He rarely makes big models from the huge box of lego - in fact thinking about it, all he ever does with it is play with the minifigures, making Darth Lightyear.

Easter holidays, my 7 year old gets the lego box out as he wants to remake his sith infiltrator and he looks very depressed. I ask why and he moans he has to wade through all the pieces to find the one he's looking for. Turns out, he always wanted them to be kept in sets and it was Daddy who told him it was better all in together and dumped them into the box!!!!

So we remade 2 sets together over the holidays (lots of Mummy INSISTING Daddy looked for the little bits for hours as he was the one who caused the problem) and when they get packed away, the sets are going into large ziplock bags to be placed inside the large underbed storage box.

DS was delighted at that thought! No more hunting for bits! Quite a few sets to make back up though in order to get them all bagged up.

somethingsgottogive

My husbands parents cut a huge sheet into a circle and turned it into a draw string bag that would open up completely flat, so after he and his brother finished playing on the 'play mat' they could just pick the whole thing up and tie it back into a bag Works BRILLIANTLY and we use it for our girls' mass of lego now

kitschkitty

Already been mentioned by a couple of people but play mats that convert to bags are great, especially as they can be hung up if you don't have much floor space to give over to storage.

ELC with roads

another ELC with roads

round type easy to DIY in the fabric of your choice and you can make it with a channel rather than holes for the cord if you prefer, you can even sew in pockets, handles, or add road map designs or anything you like - wipe clean, washable, whatever fits your needs.

mrcow

bylromarha wrote: »

DS was delighted at that thought! No more hunting for bits!

That's why ours are colour coded. It's fine dumping it all together, until you want to find specific bit, especially if you have a lot of it. I swear my son know every type of brick he's got and which set it comes from. It ruins his game if he can't find what he's looking for.

clairehi

Sorting by colour is the only way to go if you have a serious amount of lego. we just have too many different sets and types of lego to have a box for each.

The DSs and I embarked on this when I was 8 months pg with DD. took ages but very satisfying. we have 3 big boxes of white, black and grey, plus 8 small boxes of colours. all instruction books kept separately.

we also gave all the "mega bloks" fake lego to the CS as it is not as good as the real thing, the pieces just dont fit together as well...

hardpressed

londonsurrey wrote: »

But are your feet pleased? They'd make a fortune if they could sell a vaccine against the pain of stepping barefoot on a lego block.

Kneeling on a piece is even worse!