Hire someone to sort legos?
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Anonymous
DP Do you have teenagers? I can't imagine any teenager being interested in this job..so tedious and for what? How long will Larlo keep his legos in the right bin? I would let it go or let the kid figure it out. |
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Hi, OP! My son is a few years older than yours, LOVES his LEGOS, received a lot of used sets as gifts when he was about 6, both jumbled and sorted, and here is what I would suggest:
Get a really big, really wide, low plastic bin, like an under-the bed storage bin so that it is easier to find pieces without having to dig down a lot. Provide a few shallow cardboard boxes or small cookie trays for sorting and organizing. Ignore. Your son WILL figure out how to make whatever he wants to make over the next couple of years, and this is a wonderful chance to leave him in charge of how to get there. There is no point in sorting by shape, size, or color. He will probably love it if you sit with him and start out on some of the sets together, or invent some of your own, but I would generally write it off as a lost and futile cause and just consider those LEGOS a great resource. Use the money you would have used for hiring someone to buy him a few complete and separate sets so that he can work through the building process. The sets provide inspiration and construction clues, but he’ll eventually invent his own sets, which is really the best part of LEGOs. |
Anonymous
IT IS! I am a super Type A person with ahm house full of Lego. DH says he can always tell when I’ve been near the legos... he finds these piles sorted by type and color... I am not sure I realize I am doing it tbh... |
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My 6 yo is lego-obsessed and is into putting together his own creations as well as more advanced sets. I'm in the midst our own lego organizing project and here's what I've done:
- decided to sort by type vs color - found printable labels on pinterest and labeled drawers on a couple of those rubbermaid plastic drawer units - covered the top of our old, unused train table with lego base units (looks kind of like this http://www.gracegigglesandnaptime.com/make-lego-table/) - repurposed a plastic expandable file for instruction booklets - dumped all pieces to be organized in a basket that goes under the table Now it's my son's job to spend a little time each day sorting the pieces in the basket into the drawers. He likes doing this (but not as much as building), and it was only a couple hours upfront work for me. He's already using the sorted pieces to make new creations, and putting unused pieces back in the basket to be sorted again. I got a ton of ideas from pinterest. Next I plan to take an old ikea leaning bookshelf and put base plates on the shelves so he can have a rotating display in his room. |
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This device sorts Legos by size and can help you get started:
https://www.amazon.com/d/Toy-Building-Sets/LEGO-KP001-Lego-Sort-Store/B005L0MKS4 Also, if you have a lot of Legos, you can get pretty much any set of instructions on line for free by searching the Lego site. You need to know the set number. |
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The most sorting you might want to do is by color.
Keep any sets that have been together in a display area or if your kid wants to take apart, put the pieces in ziploc bags with the instructions. For the rest - I read an question to an organizer on legos. They said if you want your kids to be able to clean up their own legos - you need to keep the sorting / putting away simple. I do big bins. |
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I’m with those who say this sounds fun. Give me a set of instructions and a huge bin of legos and it would be a blast searching for the pieces and trying to recreate the set. But I also think your son will be capable of doing this on his own, if not now thenin a few years.
My girls are 4 and 6 and have quite a few of the LEGO friends sets. They get combined and then rebuilt from a common bin all of the time. |
Anonymous
Yes. Do it in sessions, though. I recently was in a similar predicament and I ended up with tendonitis in my thumb from prying pieces apart. I used shoe boxes, tupperware and large bowls to keep the different shapes separated. I love to sort and the task was rewarding. |
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DO NOT SORT BY COLOR! It's an easier way to sort but most kids build by size and function, and when you have bins filled with the same color pieces it makes them harder to find. Better to leave them unsorted.
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| Can you get a high school kid to do this over a few weekends? |
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I'm really surprised no one has discussed this -
OP this is an opportunity for YOUR child to problem solve, develop grit, and overcome adversity. Is this how you deal with every challenge he faces? Hire someone to take care of it? |
Anonymous
the child is probably too young to sort it all out but he is too young to build the sets as well. several people pointed this out. |
Anonymous
| I can't believe you would seriously want to hire somebody to sort Legos. Have your child do it. They are his Legos. It will teach him how to organize them if he so chooses. As long as he cleans them off the floor, why does it matter? They won't stay organized, btw. |
Anonymous
A 6 year old? Really? |