A while back I posted a picture on Facebook of the beginning of my Lego organization. Little did I know, this would be the beginning of a major undertaking. It started by sorting the Legos by color and separating them into their own plastic storage bins. This took several hours. I thought that the kids would just love sorting the Legos, but the tired of it quickly and the project was left up to me. I finished sorting and Andrew said, "Oh mom! I just love the way that you have organized my Legos. They are so beautiful!" And thus, my hard work paid off! But of course, more was to be done!
This is the Mini-Figure box. Andrew loves having all of the people pieces together and builds some awesome creations. He will literally spend hours creating the perfect Lego person for whatever he is playing. I love this about him! Each little person has a story and he will tell you all about him. We don't leave the house without at least one Lego guy!
I am really shocked by how well organized Andrew has kept these Legos. Don't get me wrong, there are many, many, many days that I have to sort them myself and clean up the mess....but, it's kind of relaxing for someone like me!
The next project was the instruction manuals. Andrew likes to get new Lego sets, build them, and then take them apart. So, all of the pieces are all mixed up into the color sorted boxes. And the manuals have their own box, but they get torn up pretty easily and in order for Andrew to find the one he wants they get thrown around everywhere. His room will look like a Lego instruction manual explosion. I explored many ideas for organizing these on Pinterest and found this. You take the manuals, remove the staples from the middle and place the individual pages into page protectors and put them into a binder. That sounds easy enough! I started with 75 page protectors, but quickly realized that I would need many more. I think that I ended up with at least 300 pages filling up 3 binders. There is still room to spare in the binders, but I have a feeling that before long we will have a Lego manual library!
I eventually want to categorize the manuals by theme- Lego City, Lego Batman, Ninja Turtles, Super Hero, etc. But, that's another project for another day!
I found these covers for the binders on Pinterest. I thought they were super-cute!
The Lego manuals are up on the top shelf of Andrew's closet, only to be taken out by me! I spent so much time on these and I can just see someone tearing these apart, but I know he will appreciate them when he's older!
And here is the final, organized product! I'll leave out the part where the shelf fell off the wall (twice) and so we had to move it to the floor, but that's alright, he has easy access to it now! I feel so much better having these things contained. I'm not going to lie, they don't look like this but maybe once a week, because he plays with them all the time! But, moving them to the playroom has definitely stopped the accidental stepping on the Legos in the middle of the night because they are all over the house problem!
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