Play Kitchen

We decided that we wanted to give the kids a play kitchen this year for Christmas, but that a new one was slightly out of our budget.  After looking at all the fun ideas on Pinterest we decided we would just make one! And we love a good project around here.

Before! 

We found this entertainment center at a garage sale for $15.

After!

We spent a total of $20 on this, doesn't get much better than that!

We had so much fun making this..

First, we sanded it down a bit, then primed it!

We painted all the pieces the colors that we wanted.  We picked Red since we had an abundance of it left over from painting another room in our house.  We used grey for the appliance to look like stainless steel appliances.

We used an extra cabinet door handle for the "oven door handle" For the oven and burner knobs we used some of our old cabinet door knobs.

 Inside the oven.. The oven rack is just a cookie cooling rack!

 The front of the kitchen.

For the kitchen sink, we used a cake pan from the dollar store.  For the faucet and the handles we used old PVC pipe.  We then spray painted them silver. We paid 75 cents for the faucet.  

To insert the kitchen sink we just cut a small hole in the entertainment center and then glued it to the sides so that it would stay put.

For the burners we used old outlet covers and painted them black(these were 25 cents at the Reuse It Center).

We made the kids aprons so they have some to wear when they are playing!

  Side with the oven mitts...

We are super excited to give this to the kiddos this Christmas.  Since they are both so helpful in the kitchen and love everything about cooking.  I'm so excited to see them open this at Christmas time!