Please accept my apology if this was your idea. I saw this tip somewhere in the last week or two and can't, for the life of me, remember where I saw it. I can't even remember whether I saw it on the internet or in a book or newspaper.
The tip is this. Pour all your Lego blocks out on an old bed sheet. Tell your children that they can spread the Lego out, but it must stay on the sheet. When it comes time to clean up you wrap the Lego in the sheet and tip it back into its storage container. This idea would work for any kind of toy with many small parts.
I wish I had thought of this years ago. At very least it would have saved my bare feet from painful midnight contact with stray bricks.
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When I was young my Mum made a round fabric thingy that spread out flat and had a cord all the way round, so you could shove all the Lego back onto the fabric and pull it up just like *that*.
I suspect many a mother has used this technique for taming Lego. Miss Mischief's teacher's family just built a whole room for theirs. Most people can't afford or justify the expense....but then most people don't have the largest Lego collection known to mankind!
Hi Tracy,
I like your Mum's idea. She sounds like a very clever lady.
LOL having a whole room for Lego!!!
Kate
Haha! This is what we do from the beginning on. And you know why? Because I learned that about thirty years ago from my parents... ;o)
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