D.I.Y. Kids Cardboard Kitchen

What do you do when you have a lot of cardboard? Build a kitchen of course! We had great fun this week working on this project and the kids have been playing with it loads. They even set up a restaurant.

It was actually really easy to make too. This was my tool kit:

• Large cardboard box (I used the box from our new TV)
• Protective packaging from inside TV box.
• Stapler
• Wide tape
• A craft knife
• A cardboard tube from kitchen paper

To start with I made a few cuts and folded the cardboard to give the shape of the sideboard.

Then I added a few more details like a sink and cupboards.

Next a window.

We now had the main form of the kitchen and started adding a few extra details including a pair of curtains made from the protective wrapping that was in the box.

A small saucepan and a few plastic cups, plates, forks and a pair of old oven gloves and it was really starting to come together.

We then made a table cloth and apron (from the packaging- there was a fair bit in the box). We also drew up a menu so we could play restaurant (Daddy works in a restaurant and so the boys were excited about being just like him).

We've since added some empty food boxes and plastic bottles which are being stored in the cupboards.

The whole thing only took about an hour to make.

The boys have been having loads of fun playing pretend. It's actually pretty solid and looks like it'll withstand a fair bit of battering before it needs to be thrown away. Now we just need to decide whether to paint it or not ;)