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Re: Sorting your child's bricks
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lugnet.storage
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Tue, 6 May 2003 00:02:27 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Dan Hennings writes:
> I have a friend who is interested in sorting her son's collection. The boy is
> six and probably has about two thousand bricks. I know there are many threads
> discussing storage methods, but most of these are regarding an AFOL's
> perspective. Is
> sorting something that should be encouraged for children? What are your
> experiences? The mother is currently not an AFOL. Thank you.
My childhood collection reached just over 3,600 pieces, and for the last
couple of years before my dark age, I kept them more or less sorted by
colour. But I was fairly obsessive (when I say over 3,600 pieces, I mean 3,633).
What I would suggest for sorting for children, particularly one as young as
six, is to sort out the parts into three catagories - really big parts
(baseplates, boathulls maybe BURPS and big canopies), really small parts
(minifig accessories, 1x1 plates in their various incarnations), and all the
rest.
I think sorting into those three groups will make searching through the 'all
the rest' much easier. A two thousand piece collection will fit in a blue
tub, but the presence of baseplates makes search through such a tub
difficult, and the little pieces will be in the bottom (if not lodged inside
bricks).
Of course, sorting nicely by colour, type and size would make life a lot
quieter for the parent(s)!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| "Richie Dulin" <rdulin@REMOVEmla.com.au> wrote in message news:HEFus3.p75@lugnet.com... (...) boy is (...) threads (...) 3,633). (...) as (...) the (...) 'all (...) inside (...) I'll second this. This is how my 3 and 5 year olds end up sorting their (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| I have a friend who is interested in sorting her son's collection. The boy is six and probably has about two thousand bricks. I know there are many threads discussing storage methods, but most of these are regarding an AFOL's perspective. Is sorting (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.storage)
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