Make Your Own: Cardboard Pretend Play Kitchen with Fortytworoads
December 14, 2009 by Natalie · 2 Comments
Tis the time of year for cardboard to be mounting up like there’s no tomorrow and if you fancy putting it to good use and crafting what will no doubt be a well used piece with your own bare hands, you should check out Fortytworoads on Etsy where they sell the plans and a guide for making your own pretend play kitchen from recycled cardboard. In fact, if you’ve been contemplating buying a kitchen but your budget doesn’t quite stretch to the cool ones you’d really like or you haven’t even seen the one you’d like, this could be your answer as if you can rustle up the cardboard, along with a few wire coat hangers and other bits and bobs, you could easily bash this out before Christmas…if you have the time. Amazingly, it doesn’t even require glue, nails, or screws.
Colour fiend that I am, I would have to jazz it up with some wallpaper or paint. The wonderful thing is that aside from having strong eco credentials, it’s something that you can either make yourself or engage your little one in the creative process. If you’re worried about the strength of your cardboard, the instructions also explain how to piece pieces together to make thicker board, The plans are sent to you in a PDF and they’re $12 each.
They do look fantastic. I had seen them earlier in the year but decided it still didn’t solve the ‘not-having-enough-space’ issue. I’m going to make this roll-up one instead – http://balancingeverything.com/2008/11/28/roll-up-kitchen-playmat-tutorial/
Oh what a great idea! I must have a go at making one – should be fairly simple to rustle up on a machine and will have to give this a post mention as well – thanks for sharing. I agree, it can be tricky on the space front, especially when you have dad bleating in the background about toys being everywhere