LEGO organization

Sometime after Grady turned 4yrs old we took home a set of LEGOs from my parents house that was my siblings and mine when we were little.  It was a great starting point but we really needed more pieces and parts.  Grady asked Santa to bring him "little" LEGOs for Christmas this year.  Then both the Grandparents got him sets and he also got a couple small creator sets (which I really like b/c you can make 3 different things with 1 set).  Once we got all the pieces together we quickly realized we needed to organized them.

I started to look up ways to organize LEGOs online.  Some people sort them by color, which looks nice  but does not really help find a 2x2 piece or a long flat piece.  We decided we need to sort my types of pieces.  Grady and Keith started to sort the pieces into containers we had.  Once we had idea of the size containers we would need I made a couple trips to Wal-mart to get these containers and then found the really small ones at Hobby Lobby today.

This is what happens when you have two HIGHLY organized parents one who is an engineer and one who is a little bit OCD.   Grady had a lot of fun sorting with us... I think he is a little OCD also and two years in a Montessori classroom helps.

We still store a couple big & flat pieces at the bottom of the basket.  I also got Grady a binder and sheet protectors to store the instructions and idea booklets that come with the LEGOs.

We used to have all the LEGOs in one of these baskets but now they are all organized in two basket.  It is now much easier to build something and just takes a couple seconds more to sort when taking apart a creation.

All cleaned up and hidden away :)