Mud Kitchen
Woodwork
Easy Peasy Sand & Water Table (aka Mud Kitchen)
Our toy-tester....
...approves.
A lot of chit chat in the blogging community about Mud Kitchens.Some brilliant bloggers out there with fabulously simple idea's and gorgeous results! Dirt never looked so appealing!
We have been to IKEA to buy their Rast Bedside Table, approximately three times now for our indoor play kitchen, fruit stand and book nook. This time we tested the Shanghai Flea Market; an old furniture market on the Pudong side of the river. We found some amazing goodies; an old Gong, Chinese drums, carved Buddha statues and the perfect wooden bench for an outdoor mud kitchen. We only went home (this time!) with the bench (around $25) and a miniature stool for O.
There is a fix-it market down the alley from our home. It is an outdoor jumble of stalls that fix fans, washing machines and other electronics. They also sell kitchen supplies for pennies. We picked up two, shallow cooking pans at 5rmb each (less than $1).
Dabby cut out pan-sized spaces in either end of the bench and we sunk in the 'sinks'.
A 25kg bag of sand at the local construction store was also under a dollar.
We added some old kitchen tools; tin bowl, wooden rolling pin and some tupperware containers.
Total cost of Mud Kitchen
$27
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Check out these outdoor adult (I mean) kiddie kitchens for more ideas & kitchen tool additions. Inspiring!