LEGO Organization & Storage
How many different ways are there to organize & store LEGOS? Answer: INFINITY!
My goal was to make a system that is functional and super easy for a 6 year old to maintain.
Dive in for some organizing LEGO inspo that can easily be scaled up with a bigger LEGO collection.
The table is a Pottery Barn kids table. My husband made a LEGO table topper that sits on top of the table for LEGO playtime, but it can easily be lifted off and removed.
I started by sorting the LEGOS into like piles, and using these clear, rectangular boxes from mDesign. They have an attached, hinged lid.
When sorting keep the piles in monochromatic colors to keep the number of boxes to a minimum.
I placed each color in its own clear box.
I like to keep the themed LEGO kits together.
The bigger kits wouldn’t fit in one box, so I broke them up (keeping the boxes stacked together), and made labels for each box that corresponds with the number on the lego bag in the kit.
These are just clear, printable labels that can easily be removed once the kit is completed.
Next, I organized all the instruction books that come with the different LEGO kits.
I used a 3 ring binder and plastic sheet protector pages to hold the books.
I made a simple title page for the front insert of the binder, and slipped it on top.
This makes the binder easily identifiable with no searching for all the instruction books.
Click the button below if you would like to download and print this insert that I made for our binder.
Next, I stuck a sheet of card stock into each plastic sheet protector to keep the pages looking nice and clean with no visual clutter showing from the back pages.
I only put the book(s) from a singe LEGO kit in each sheet protector.
This makes it very easy to flip through the binder and find the instruction books for each LEGO kit.
There is really no need to label since each book has the kit name as its title.
(The exception to this rule would be if you have tons of instruction books you want to keep. In this case, it might be a good idea to make page tabs with the kit name, so you’re not flipping through a huge binder looking for a single book. HOWEVER, I don’t advise keeping books if you’re pretty certain you’re never going to use them again. It can just add up to more unnecessary paper clutter in your home, and most instruction books can be found online if you ever need them again.)
ALL DONE!!!!
The last step is to put everything away!
I stacked all the generic, color grouped LEGOS on the bottom shelf, the LEGO kits (except Minecraft) and instruction book binder are on the top shelf.
Minecraft had to go on the bottom right because it had so many boxes and needed more space.
