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[quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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