On this article, I am going to take a look at 5 methods that may show you how to to type your LEGO assortment. This can be a job many Dad and mom ponder at one time or one other, I do know I’ve as my Son’s (and mine!) LEGO assortment has grown over time.
1. Jumbled up in a single field.
That is the best way many peoples LEGO collections begin off and once you solely have a couple of units or a small quantity of bricks it really works nice. Your kids will get pleasure from this feature the most effective as you’ll be able to simply get one field out and each and all their fine details might be there. It is also simple to tidy up after enjoying as you’ll be able to simply bung all of it within the one field.
As your assortment grows although you could discover that this fashion of storing can get a tad irritating, significantly when searching for particular smaller items. When all you LEGO is in a single field it takes time to seek out every bit and it additionally makes a proper racket swilling all these LEGO items across the field!
2. In A LEGO Lay-n-Go Playmat.
I stumbled upon these glorious play-mats a couple of weeks in the past and though they’re an identical manner of storage to utilizing one huge field, they’ve one frankly sensible characteristic. Your entire LEGO is saved in an enormous spherical playmat that has cords sewn in throughout the sides which implies you’ll be able to immediately tidy up after a tough days constructing by simply holding on to the string and lifting, bish bash boosh, how simple is that!
The Lay-nGo Playmat is obtainable on-line or when you’ve got a artful streak I am positive you could possibly knock one thing related up your self.
3. Kind the bricks by color into separate containers.
That is the system we tried for some time and when our Son was youthful it labored nice for him and us, however we did although discover a flaw on this manner of sorting your LEGO. Sorting by color seems to be sensible particularly if like us you additionally get colored attracts to match, it actually is straightforward for little individuals to assist to maintain their very own LEGO sorted and so they really discover serving to to tidy up enjoyable.
Now the however, personally I discovered that when looking for that lacking bit, both for a selected model or simply one thing you had in thoughts, it may be exceedingly exhausting to seek out particular components in a single colored draw. Like I used to should pour all of the bits out and spend ages and ages searching for the best components, it actually was starting to do my head in. So when you could assist your kids to construct particular fashions this methodology in follow is kind of exhausting work as I discovered that discovering a bit by color reasonably than by form is kind of exhausting.
4. Use a LEGO Sorter.
One other funky invention I discovered just lately is the LEGO sorting field. It is primarily a stack of 4 tray packing containers which have totally different measurement holes within the backside of every tray. The thought is you’re taking handfuls of LEGO and bung them within the prime of the stack of packing containers after which shake the packing containers and all of the small items fall to the underside, medium keep within the center and huge keep within the prime.
A genius invention and even when your LEGO assortment has grown too huge to suit inside this sorting field, you’ll be able to nonetheless use it to assist type your LEGO Secret Agenct Society.
5. Kind by brick kind.
Sorting by particular LEGO brick is the place most LEGO collectors find yourself. Whenever you assortment get to a sure measurement it will get more durable and more durable to seek out bits, which is simply irritating for you and your kids. So the final word solution to type your assortment of LEGO is to type every kind of brick into its personal field. Now you’ll be able to like us have a couple of related bricks in collectively, we solely had six packing containers, so we labored out a manner that labored for us. We simply sorted the bits like this.
a. Bricks 4’s & 6
b. Boards
c. Roof Bits
d. Sticks
e. Something that is a 1 or 2
f. A random, bites and bobs draw.
g. All of the Minifigures and accessories. (my Son’s favorite draw!)
This appears to work for us in the intervening time with the quantity of LEGO now we have. When you have hundreds and a great deal of packing containers, like one (or two) of these instrument sorting trays you’ve got within the storage with screws in, the bigger variations are nice for LEGO. Then you’ll be able to go all out and kind all the way down to absolutely the particular person half. You see pics of individuals on the web with enormous collections and that is how they type their LEGO assortment.
I hope these strategies are helpful for you, nonetheless you determine to type your assortment one issues for positive your kids will show you how to to un-sort it!