5 a day

To go with the kitchen, little bear needed some play food. I googled 'crochet play food' or something similar and found this directory. All of the these are from patterns on this website.

There's an apple, orange, banana, strawberry, pear, leek, potato, carrot, mushroom, egg, bacon and slice of bread.

I have a rather extensive yarn stash so these were all made with scraps. I also have stuffing in the cupboard as I used to make amigurumis and have been knitting some animals. This means that all this food was FREEEEE!

Play Kitchen Project

Today, little bear and I went to a play centre so Daddy could clean the house (double winning in my book!) They have play kitchens with food, pots and pans. Bear had a great time opening and closing the doors, putting things in and taking them out, bringing things to me in the process. I've been thinking for a while about making him a kitchen from a tv cabinet or similar. Kinda like this


From http://www.hillebrandphotographyblog.com
/2013/04/selahs-play-kitchen/

I've spent the last hour or so trawling ebay, gumtree and local Facebook selling groups to find the most appropriate piece of furniture with little success. I will keep looking and hopefully something will come up.

I have primer and white gloss in the shed but might get some tester pots to paint it. I'll need to get a silver bowl for the sink and I saw somewhere to use a 'J' decoupage letter upside down as the taps. I might get some cork coasters/ mats for the hobs, painted black.

I've also just been searching felt and crochet food to make sure Bear's kitchen is fully stocked. I have measuring cups that might work as pans, depending on the scale.

I'm getting really excited about this, even though it might not end up being very frugal!