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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

I also have a Lego obsessed kid and I would tell other people to skip the baseplates. It’s not necessary.
It’s nice to have a little lip to the table and shelves so small pieces don’t go flying, but my son doesn’t snap his creations down to the base plates - at all. We have them, but he is not interested and feels it restricts his play. It looks nice on Pinterest but so don’t think it’s very useful other than making you look like a crafty mom who has Pinterest. [/quote]

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