Lego Table

I think Legos might be one of the greatest inventions of all time.  They inspire such creativity.  Recently I got on the lego website and found that you can get a free monthly magazine.  I haven't gotten it yet to know if it is just advertising or something better, but I am hoping it will inspire more creativity from my kids.  


A few months ago I made my son a lego table.  I wanted to share how I did it with you all because it has been a really nice addition to our play items.  



This lego table was really quiet simple.  Believe me, if I can do it you can!  The hardest step was finding a table to make the table from.  I looked at craigslist for months.  Luckily I am a frequent shopper to a goodwill store and one day when I went there I found the perfect thing.  I snatched it up for $5 and was ready to go.

Lego table before: The top slides open to to revel a drawer underneath

Lego Table After

I went to town organizing it, but the organization has long been tossed out and now all the legos are just tossed into the drawer.

Materials:

Gorilla Glue

Target vanity totes as well as some tackle boxes  (for separating legos by color and making them organized) -- if you have an older child that loves to keep his legos a certain way these are nice.  If your kids don't care I wouldn't bother.

flat large 10 x 10 lego plates.  I got four and cut the fourth one into thirds because my table is longer than wide.  You can get these at Toys R Us or ebay or amazon.  I got them when Toys R Us had a lego sale of buy one get one half off.

Method:

If you need to cut any of your lego plates.  I first figured out how to split my plate evenly and then marked where to cut with masking tape. 

use an exacto knife and cut along the taped edge as straight as possible

I couldn't cut straight through so I had to bend the plate until it broke along my edge

I sanded all the edges to make them that much more straight

Then I glued the boards onto my surface.  With gorilla glue you need to be careful not to get too close to the edge because as it dries it expands.  I had mine expand up through the pieces.  It still works, but it doesn't look as nice.  You also have to be sure to match your pieces by putting legos together along the edges otherwise you won't have a perfect match.

legos holding the plates together so they are correct while the glue dries.

takes about two hours to dry, but you are supposed to clamp the projects together.  I just put big old heavy textbooks on top of the surface.

Organized and perfect lego table, it was nice to have them organized for me but my kids didn't care about this and we have long ago abandoned such organization methods!

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