Lego MEN! My son is getting quite the collection of Lego men. Keeping up with them all can be a challenge at times. I have found them scattered all over the house. I found a couple of good ideas on Pintrest on displaying and storing the men so they wouldn't get lost. While visiting my parents and sister recently I had the opportunity to go to a Lego store. While there I was telling one of the guys that work there about some of the ideas I found online on displaying and storing the Lego men. He gave me a suggestion witch I ended up going with. The display consists of 1 large grey board ($14) and 96 clear
1x2 "brick" and the board is optional (the boarder is made up of white
"radiator grille" 1x2 pieces with red
1x1 "flat tile" in each corner) . I bought the "brick" pieces off the "pick a brick" wall. They have 2 size cups you can buy and fill cup with the different bricks off the wall (the small one was more than big enough to hold what we needed for the board plus extras and it was $7). If you really wanted you could super glue the pieces onto the board but I didn't. I was going to wait and see how he did with them just pressed into place first that way he can rearrange them as he wanted or need because of the man’s height. Now securing it to the wall is a trial thing at the moment. I used painters tape rolled up on the back to hang it and we have had no problem with it staying up so far.
Lego INSTRUCTION BOOKS! Ok now this one I did get off of Pintrest. I found a binder that wasn't being used and extra clear page protectors. The instructions that were just one page I put in the page protectors open and I was able to fit 2 in a protector. The small instruction books I just slid in to a page protector and grouped them according to theme (Cars, City, Nijago, Etc.). I gave the big instruction books their own page protector each. Now all the instructions are kept together and are not getting messed up.

Lego ORGANIZATION! I had some extra embroidery thread boxes I wasn't using and I gave them to Hanna to help organize some of her small Legos. Hanna likes to constantly build new things with her Legos. The boxes helped keep the little Legos organized (flowers, food, and the other misc. little Legos). Now she can see all little Legos easier and can find what she is looking for easier.

