For the kids’ 2nd birthday I decided to make them a play kitchen. It all started when I saw a cool one online that someone had made based on an Ikea nightstand. At first I had planned to just do the same, but since we have no Ikea here, we had to start from scratch instead (actually Ikea would have happily sent me one of their $20 nightstands, if I had happily paid them $40 in shipping).

The kids and I worked on “the project” together for about three weeks before it reached a stage near enough to completion that they started to realize what it might be. At that point I put it away and added the last few touches over a couple of evenings. It was great fun, we made trips to the hardware store together, measured, drilled, and assembled together. I did however take sole responsibility for all cutting operations and they took sole responsibility for the even distribution of screws throughout the house.

It’s all done now and awaiting their birthday.

“working” on the project (side note: this is the face Nyah makes when you ask her to smile)

Getting ready to spread these around the house

Child labour

“These people are making me build my own birthday gift”

Voila!