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| Lego organization; Gallon and Half-Gallon containers, 4-wide, 4-deep |
I have scoured the Internet for an elegant solution to LEGO set storage and have finally come up with what has become my favorite organizational system in my home. My husband and I both love LEGO and grew up with them being among our favorite toys. I come from a background of having one large bin of LEGOs while he, on the other hand, had cared for his as sets and some sat put together for over a decade without any thoughts of rebuilding.
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| Before sorting and separating |
If the LEGO movie has taught us anything it would be how sad it is as a kid to have a LEGO set that you can’t tear apart and master build. However, since we had so many almost complete multigenerational themes, I also wanted to keep those grouped together. So first we had to painstakingly reassemble all the sets that we wanted to preserve. This took us many nights and many days and it was actually in this process that I really saw my then two year olds ability with LEGO start to flourish.
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| We assembled all of each theme, such as Ice Planet 2002, shown here |
Once we had a good understanding of what sets we wanted to keep together, I found some half-gallon and gallon clear plastic jars on Amazon and went to work again - first photographing the sets we had chosen to group together, labeling the jars with the photo of the included sets along with their LEGO numbers, and then placing them all neatly in a cabinet. I only wish that the jars that I had chosen also had a two gallon option but in those cases I just ended up labeling the jars as 1/2 and 2/2, and that has worked for us without issue.
My now three year old son will put away any LEGO grouping before choosing which bin he wants to build from next, keeping LEGOs grouped together incase we do want to build from the instructions. This has also allowed us to create our own sets as we start building GBC modules. Most of the LEGO instructions we just have digital copies of, or look up instructions for on the Internet, which further minimizes the clutter. This is my pride and joy of organization because of my families, and my love for this toy, as well as how far we’ve come from box after box of jumbled up dusty old LEGOs to where we are today.
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| Some of my son's "master builds" |
This process for us took an insane amount of time but I included my son in helping find and reassemble this sets as well as sometimes making our own. In retrospect, the time I put into this was what taught my son so many of the engineering principles that he continues to build upon today. He has surpassed my wildest expectations of LEGO building and is passionate about other creator toys that he has the opportunity to interact with as well.
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