We love Legos in our house. When I say love, I mean we are obsessed with them and they are all over our house. My husband loved Legos as a kid and every birthday and Christmas he would get Lego sets, he has quite the collection. Since his Legos are precious to him, and he only lets my daughter play with them when she is around, we have slowly been collecting new sets for her. She has Star Wars sets, Lego Friends Sets, regular ole’ Legos and Disney Princess sets. It is the thing I love most about Legos, she can be or build anything she wants to be.
Lego Head Storage Container
Our Lego obsession means we have Legos coming out of our ears. I needed a way to store them. If you remember this quite Harry Potter craft awhile back, it gave me the idea for this craft. I always have these large laundry detergent containers left after a few months of laundry. Why not upcycle them into Lego heads for the Lego crazies in my life?
You will need:
- a large container of some sort (cheese balls, laundry detergent)
- yellow spray paint (buy the kind made for plastic)
- black vinyl
Clean out and remove the labels from the containers. Spray paint the containers yellow, because plastic can be tricky to spray paint, I often let the containers dry overnight between coats, giving each container 2-3 coats. Make sure you spray paint the lid too.
After the container is dry, trace the Lego Face in your Design program, or print it out and trace it onto the back of vinyl and cut it out. It is a simple design, so it will be really easy to trace and cut out even if you don’t have a cutter.
Weed out the excess vinyl. For this project, since the transfer tape can pull up the spray paint and because it is such a simple design, I apply the pieces on at a time to the Lego container, but if transfer tape is easier, go for it!
Store your Legos inside! I love having a cute Lego themed place to keep our Legos. Now if it only met I never had to step on another Lego I would be a happy mom. 😉
How do you store your Legos?
DIY Lego Head Storage Container
Upcycle a laundry container into a cute Lego Head to store all of the loose Legos, and hopefully keep them off the floor!
Materials
- a large container of some sort cheese balls, laundry detergent
- yellow spray paint buy the kind made for plastic
- black vinyl
Instructions
- Clean out and remove the labels from the containers. Spray paint the containers yellow, because plastic can be tricky to spray paint, I often let the containers dry overnight between coats, giving each container 2-3 coats. Make sure you spray paint the lid too.
- After the container is dry, trace the Lego Face in your Design program, or print it out and trace it onto the back of vinyl and cut it out. It is a simple design, so it will be really easy to trace and cut out even if you don’t have a cutter.
- Weed out the excess vinyl. For this project, since the transfer tape can pull up the spray paint and because it is such a simple design, I apply the pieces on at a time to the Lego container, but if transfer tape is easier, go for it!
- Store your Legos inside! I love having a cute Lego themed place to keep our Legos.
Fun idea. We just keep ours in a big tub 🙂
I am in love with this idea! My kids were just complaining about needing more storage space for their Legos.
These came out so cute! Great upcycle 🙂
Oh my gosh you had me at Lego!! What a great idea and so easy!! Totally trying this once I'm finished with this container of ALL packets – which at the rate my family goes through clothes, should be relatively soon..
Oh those Legos hurt when you step on them! Ues, I've stepped on more then a few in my day. What a great idea to keep them all in one place-or hopefully all in one place.
That is such a great idea! I have a couple of those detergent pack containers I could do this with.
Michelle F.
These are so cute!!! Wish I knew about this tutorial back when The Lego Movie came out!
These are very cute! I need to try it, so I can organize my son's legos!
We are big Lego fans here also. Every parent knows you need a way to keep those little pieces off the floor & out of the bottom of your feet. These are adorable DIY containers.
I never would have thought to do that, but it's so smart. Now I'm brainstorming!! Thanks!
You are so creative I love the lego containers they are so cool!
This is so cute and clever. I have never used a circuit cutter. Looks like you can make some pretty cool stuff with it!
These are so cool! I love a good Lego storage idea. Might try this for the master rebuild of all the sets that got demolished lately.
These are great!!! I know my son would love them.
I LOVE these – I try to make LEGO friendly things out of every single item in our house too – this is great!
These are so great! What a clever idea!
These are so cute and so simple! I'm going to have to remember them for the future! I love how creative you are. 🙂
This idea makes me want to go and find the biggest square containers I can find for this LEGO head storage project! Those dinky little milk containers would barely be able to contain a portion of a person's LEGO collection!