In our small garden

An Ongoing Tale of Two Kitchens – WIP Wednesday

I am definitely sold on WIP Wednesday. Check out our kitchen coming together! As I mentioned last week, I am making a play kitchen out of cardboard using this brilliant pattern from forty-two roads. It turned out that that I did have enough cardboard in the storage closet, mostly because I lucked out and had two big double-layered boxes. I was a little hesitant to start cutting out the pieces with a preschooler hovering, but I’m glad I did. He was so careful and listened so well, fascinated by what I was doing. He helped measure and mark and is so excited about this project. Still to do: cut the assembly slots into the kitchen parts, get a handle and some wire (and figure out how to cut said wire), cover with contact paper, and sew the curtain. I ordered some bright yellow (why not?) contact paper from Amazon and am trying to decide on the curtain fabric. Maybe this one?

The other kitchen of this winding tale is a mud kitchen, which we didn’t do this week. I cleared out a spot for it, where we used to store the recycle bins. By angling the grill a bit and moving around the bins, I made a little  play space. Not the most glamorous, between the air conditioner and the recycling, but Ash loves it. We didn’t start the mud kitchen, though, because I didn’t find the materials I was hoping for lurking in the depths of the storage closet. In the meantime, we tried the water pouring wall from the summer fun list…which was a big flop, and not just because the materials I gathered didn’t work that well. Ash was completely uninterested in it: as soon as he saw the bucket I’d filled with water, he ran to get his matchbox cars and happily dumped the water over them and that was that.

Which proves my theory that a bucket of water is the best thing ever. I’ve been known to put one on a towel in the middle of the kitchen in the dead of winter.

And so the tale of two kitchens continues.