Lego Trays

Just in time for Spring Break, I made more storage for the boys’ Legos. I made a train/Lego table years ago as a Christmas present to the boys.

The table is currently downstairs in our living room. We have the Lego side on the underside, and Mr. Pfitzer currently uses the table for his trains.

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The older boys have transitioned to true Lego’s, but I’ve had to put limitations on when and where they play with their Lego’s due to their baby brother always wanting to be in their business. I’m pretty confident that Mr. Pfitzer is past the stage of putting the Lego’s in his mouth, but once I say that, I know he’ll go and do something crazy to make me regret saying it. Right now, the concern is him taking everything apart and losing the pieces.

I’m a little OCD in storing the boy’s Lego sets in containers. I have a separate container that has the extra pieces and instructions from the sets.

I was storing the Lego sets in my closet on a high shelf and the boys would have to get me or Mr. JCrew to reach them and they could only play when Mr. Pfitzer was napping. I saw how much they enjoyed playing Legos and was sad at the same time that they didn’t have the freedom to just play.

I wanted to change that, so I came up with making some storage for under their bed. Then they could just shut the bedroom door and play anytime. They no longer needed me to get them down for them. 

With carpet in the bedrooms, I created a “Tray” they could use to put the Legos on as they build and play. Much better than carpet. I intended to put Lego backplates on them, but then changed my mind.

Another tray I made has wheels and is where their containers are stored with their sets.

The last tray has wheels, but higher sides than the others. This is for all the loose Legos that do not belong to a set.

I bought loose Lego’s at a consignment sale long ago and had them hidden until they were old enough. Then I forgot about them! When I built the tray, I built one for each kid, so I had to go to another consignment sale to get more Legos!! They now have a ton! (2 trays worth)

It came at perfect timing, because I built these the weekend before our Spring Break, so for the entire week, they were quietly playing upstairs with Lego’s and baby brother was not bothering them!

The boys started using the trays as I was building them.

Mr. Pfitzer had to know what these new things were, so he investigated.

Now that we are in summer break, these Legos are getting a lot of play time.

Play Kitchen

Our play kitchen got a small makeover.

It's nothing fancy, but it got some structure to it. We bought this play kitchen when Mr. Brigglesworth was just born. The boys have had so much fun playing in it.

Before, its setup was nothing special, but I thought if I added some organization to it, the boys would play a little better with it. We had one bucket that housed everything. The aprons were in there and the boys were digging to find those aprons. So, I bought those 3M Command hooks and hung the aprons on the wall next to the play kitchen.

The table and chairs use to be on another wall, but I moved those over to the play kitchen so it could be an in-house diner.

I was thinking of finding a cute picture to hang above the table and chairs. I searched around at Hobby Lobby and found quite a few. I landed on the perfect one!

The buckets next to the play kitchen now separate the play food from the utensils and cookware. The boys like organization as much as I do, so the buckets have stayed organized and don't mix.

Mister Pfitzer is obsessed with the play phone and carries it around everywhere. He can now say, "phone."

One day my kiddos will outgrow this kitchen, but right now it is a favorite that I'm hanging on to.