I need to say thank you to a lovely reader Liz, who emailed me to tell me about an architectural salvage place near us that might be able to give away some gnarly 2x4 for the kids to hammer at. This also resulted in a couple of nice sized sections on either side of the screen that could hold supplies. I have seen a couple of lightboxes come up on Craigslist, the last one was even free, but it was too big for us to transport, and so I decided to use this crate base to make our own, but make it so that it could be stored away, and used both inside and outside, whilst still being able to be used with the Lego when we wanted.Īll I needed to do was a bit of measuring, then jigsaw out a nice big hole from the base, cut some plexiglass to size, and then screw in a couple of lengths of 2x4 to hold the plexiglass down. We used to use a blanket, but this is much better. It contains all the teensy bits of Lego and stops them spreading all over the livingroom.
It's been in use in our livingroom for a while as a Lego construction center. He was going to ditch the crate, so we nabbed it (thanks Rich!). One of our friends had a painting restored, and it came in a nice sturdy wooden crate. This is another thing that I've wanted to sort out for the kids for a while, but it wasn't until recently that the right container came our way.
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