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Originally Posted by dubc80
How do you guys and your young kids handle playing with normal Lego?
Ive got 3 kids, the older ones are turning 5 and 3 this year.
1) The Lego will inevitably break as the kids fight over it.
2) The Lego will inevitably break as the kid plays with it normally.
3) The Lego pieces will inevitably get lost in the house resulting in the Lego not being able to be made anymore (unless we substitute pieces).
And because of 1, 2, and 3 above, my kids are constantly asking me or my wife to re-build it as they cant do it themselves. I like Lego, but it gets annoying.
We actually just get them to free play now instead of building the actual item. Seems to be the key at this age. But they like playing with the complete helicopter, or monster truck or whatever it is way more than being creative at this point.
We've gotten a bunch of sets over the last little while, and Ive hidden them un-opened for now as there's basically a temporary Lego ban on unveiling new sets at my house right now. lol.
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I think it depends on your kids quite a bit. We have a 3 year old and a 5 year old. The 5 year old is pretty good at building sets by himself (he can do anything where the age range includes 8 years old). He also mostly likes to display them, although he plays with some of the vehicle ones. He gets super mad if his brother takes his sets crashes them though.
Our three year old is much interested in 'playing' with the lego sets, and inevitably breaks them. We bought some of the "junior" vehicle sets for him (helicopter, police truck). Two big reasons are his attention span is long enough to actually build them, and when I'm putting it back together for the 5th time that afternoon it isn't very complicated so doesn't take very long. When he broke his brothers big Ninjago dragon it took me a full hour to put it back together - which was necessary to prevent fight to the death.
TLDR Our older son has all of his sets nicely displayed and keeps them together. Our younger son has a giant drawer of pieces that he puts back together however he wants making new vehicles every time. They both seem happy with that, so keeping their stuff separate has been the key for us.