Now, I am certainly not very handy when it comes to building things with wood, but I actually managed this. In all honesty, I cheated a bit. I started with an old child's headboard I found at a garage sale for $4. The rest of it I hobbled out of scraps of wood my husband had lying about. I basically made a frame grow out of the headboard with 2 X 2's (remember it's just what I had on hand) and then covered it with plywood or shelving scraps. I stuck it all together with screws, some intended for wood, some not. It's not perfect, but cute enough that my girls and I are happy with it.
The knobs are old wooden toy wheels, and the faucet and handles are from their block box. (Which all hail from the thrift store, too.) The little shelf also comes from the block box. The sink is an old metal wash tub, also from a garage sale. For the star-shaped burners, I held a piece of card board up to the star in the headboard and traced the shape to make a stencil. Finally, the curtain gives it that cozy, homey feel, and helps hide the chaos found in so many well-used kitchens. (You may not be able to see that the fabric has teeny mice and yellow cheese wedges all over it, which I found on sale at the lovely Piece by Piece.) And so that's how I managed to give my kidos (and me!) a real wooden play kitchen, even when I just could not afford one at the store or online.
P.S. I also got a little help sawing and sanding from my girls. Not much, but enough for them to say they helped. ;)
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