The girls asked to bring lego away, I said no and we've been in the van due to bad weather, glad we bought a 12v tv and we have lots of craft but I may just make a tub to bring away
Has anyone seen the tubs where the use an old wipes case with the small board cut & glued in the top?
Thinking a plastic container with one glued on the lid would work better as you could take the lid off!
there are fb pages that make soft lego pockets - they put a base plate in it, and a zippered pocket for lego.
I would probably just grab a container and a base plate and not worry about them being stuck on anything. perhaps grab a 5L or 7L snap lock container like we use, and get a base plate to fit in there (the 16*16 base plates should fit in a 2L or 3L container if you want to go smaller). the 7L tub easily fits the 1600 piece set that you can get in kmart.
did you say your SIL or someone was getting the pink and blue tubs for christmas? if they're the same ones i'm thinking of, they have a spot in the top for the small base plate, and might be suitable for you to take with. another option is a beginner set that is available with cars and stuff to build (we got it in big w) that has a base plate on top of it as the lid. it fits easily in the smaller container (i think we have it in a 3L). Check out set 10657. from memory it was about $18 (but i don't know for sure!)
BG - The beginners set with the base plate lid is one we got DS - $19 at Myer, but with their deal we got it much cheaper. Ours has a crane in it. Perfect size to take away ZF.
Yup that's the one! It's compact. Easy to cart around. If probably out some generic Lego in as well. Especially for two kids. I could see them fighting over the limited pieces pretty quickly. If I had two kids to take away if likely but two of those sets so there are two base plates. Then chuck in some generic stuff as well. But I'm notorious for having too much "just in case" and planning on an assumption that kids will always want what the other kid has - too many years with mum doing fdc for me to get myself out of that thought process. Lol.
Doesn't help that my 11yo nephew started having a tanty the other day cos his sister and dd used "his pieces". So I like to plan to avoid that crap! Imau have told him to pull his head out of his bum, get over it and play properly with the girls or I was ringing his grandfather to take him home on the taxi - at his expense (he always brags about how much more money he has in his money box than his sisters - so I figured I'd hit him where it hurt lol). There was well over a thousand Lego pieces in the table. No reason whatsoever for them to be scrapping over pieces!
We had to attend a funeral today and DS was on his absolute best behaviour (his sister not so much :/). As a reward we gave him a lego city mini set. The fire motorbike. He was thrilled.
Funny. I couldn't remember which fb page has the Lego wallets when I was typing this yesterday. This morning it shows up in my news feed. Patricia Jane on fb.
We had a Lego meltdown yesterday. Asked dd to clean up the mess on the floor. If she didn't I would start pulling her Lego apart. She refused to clean up so I started cleaning up the Lego table. O. M. G! It was bad. Apparently her creations need to stay set up forever...
A tub is a great idea for the van ZF! Might have to organise me one of those too.
I actually don't have much success with tables (but my kids are happy to pull their creations apart over and over). Holly is a climber and lego is slippery and ouchy when you climb on it. When I was a kid mum used to spread out a doona cover and all lego had to stay on there. When we were finished she'd just scoop it all up and pour it back into it's crate. It works here too. Even the baby goes around and scoots the bits back on that have come off lol.
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