Little Coloured Bricks

“If I fall along the way, pick me up and dust me off”, that’s what Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20 crooned in the song Bent.

Albeit this can be a very emotional song, this very part of the song may also apply to your Lego blocks. It’s all a matter of interpretation as with any poem or a poem’s line for that matter.

Whether you clean your Lego on a regular basis with water or just dust them off, it is always important that you do the cleaning in a systematic way lest you want to lose a few Lego elements here and there.

Cleaning your Lego elements in a basin is a good idea and if you are cleaning small Lego parts, it would be best to get a strainer to make sure that nothing gets lost –you wouldn’t want to be in the Lego catalog for spare parts again would you? Taking a look at the spare parts catalog at the Lego website is fun though but regardless of how fun it is to buy spare parts from Lego, it is still a good thing for you to make sure that you do not accidentally throw away or flush down most of your Lego elements specifically the very small ones.

Clean Lego parts with water and water alone. Do not add any chemicals or cleaning agents unless you want them to smell like that lemon squeeze dishwashing liquid that your mom uses. Make sure that you dry them off. Drying them off with a clean cloth is advisable but you should leave them out to dry for a bit just to be sure that there are no water residue. Once they are totally dry, you may use them again or put them back together.

Happy Lego cleaning everyone!