If you have vacuumed up Lego, found it down the side of your sofa or just trodden on it and gone ‘Owwww’, you will appreciate the need for Lego storage containers.

With potentially thousands of itty, bitty bricks flying around your house, you need somewhere they can call home. Ideally it will keep them contained whilst being easily portable and will look neat in your kids room.

The good news is that there are a multitude of ideas out there for where you can store your Lego. Most are not Lego branded so do not have ridiculously high ‘branded’ prices. The bad news is that which one will work best for you can be tricky to fathom.

You need to think about how much Lego you have, whether you have random pieces or sets, how much you can spend and where you have room to store them. Then you need to think about whether you want to organize them by color, type, set or not at all.

So before you even think about which storage solution is right for you, stop and analyse your collection.

Some of the most popular storage ideas are plastic boxes, drawers and combined play and storage mats.

If you opt for plastic boxes, either buy one shallow one or various smaller ones. It is tricky for kids to wade through and see all the pieces they want to in a large box. Smaller ones allow you to easily separate out various aspects of your collection – colors, minifigs, special pieces etc.

Drawers are a great way to make the best use of vertical space in your kids room. They are also mostly on wheels so easily moveable. Drawers are especially useful for you to keep instruction booklets and sets separate from random piles of pieces.

For younger kids the playmat/storage bags are ideal. They do not allow you to separate Legos but they do make clear up easy – you just pull on the drawstring and the Legos are safely stored.

There are in fact 26 Ideas For Lego Storage Containers – click the link to learn about them all from Get Set Organize.

Kids are born with a certain disposition. No matter what you teach them, they end up finding their own way. You see it very early when your toddler decides what kinds of toys he likes best. Boys seem to be into either cars or balls, but generally will play with both. Girls don’t seem to have a simple “either / or” scenario, but they tend to like stuffed animals or dolls. With Christmas right around the corner, it’s time to figure out what your toddler is going to want most. Chances are that their attention span will be short-lived no matter what you get them, but hopefully your diligent search will land a gift that they tote around for the next year or more.

The best Christmas gifts this year for toddler boys include a few classics as well as a few new items. Here’s my list for toddler boys who are especially fascinated by the ball:

1. Playskool Explore and Grow Busy Ball Popper – A fan blows five colorful balls out of tube while music plays. Toddlers quickly pick up how to play with this toy (press the mushroom!) and love it. His first word will be, “Ball!”
2. Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks – Oversized shapes are easily matched up with the corresponding holes. One sign of development is a child’s ability to match. Toddlers develop patience and persistence as they experiment with the blocks.
3. Early Years Busy Ball Drop – Again with the balls. I know. But toddlers will play this alone. The ball goes in the top, goes around , and around, then hits the bottom. It is repetitive and easy for them to understand. A great toy for a toddler.
4. Baby Einstein bendy Ball – Kick it, squash it, bend it, whatever. The texture is fun to touch, it’s easy to pick up, and virtually unbreakable so they can use it until they are well into the terrible twos!
5. Basketball Hoop – There are a lot of great brands that sell these and this is another toy that your toddler will play on his own for more than five minutes.

One quick tip. A lot of these toys can be found at second hand stores for a great price, making it easier to get all five instead of one or two. Have a great time shopping for your little one and remember that they mostly just want to play with you so get toddler toys that you can both live with!

Kids find many things we take for granted as fascinating. They watch garbage trucks come to the house and pickup the garbage and then making a loud noise crushing it while moving down the road. This is an amazing scene for the kids and they remember it vividly in their minds. So it is a very good choice to give toy garbage trucks to kids because they will enjoy playing with something they see everyday. If you would like to buy a garbage truck for a kid, then there are some good models you will like to check out.

Bruder Toys, a renown toy manufacturer has some good classical garbage truck models for sale. Their toy trucks for kids are made to scale and appear realistic and have most of the functions of the real trucks. In case of their garbage toy models they come with dump beds in the back which can lifted and dump stuff in the back and in some of their models you can even compress the garbage dumped at the back of the truck by pressing a knob.

Tonka is another famous brand for toys. They manufacture toy trucks including several models of recycling trucks for children of all ages. You find garbage trucks from them in the Chuck and Friend series for very small kids and bigger models for older children. Tonka also has motorized toy trucks that are big and can dump garbage at the touch of a button.

Then you got a very famous toy garbage truck named Stinky the garbage truck. It’s a toy garbage truck which transforms into a talking and singing robot at the touch of a button. Children of all ages have been captivated by Stinky and the funny jokes and tunes it plays since it came to the market. So above you saw a range of garbage trucks in the market today. I hope this helps you to select the best gift.