Stuff I Did: Building a Play Kitchen Stove

I owed my boy a toy kitchen. I'm talking over a year now. My wife claimed he loved playing with toy kitchens. Just like she claimed he would LOVE a toy stroller. I'd be the first to admit that I really didn't want to get my kid that stroller. My wife thought I was being a Neanderthal about it. I told her it was like seeing him wearing a USC jersey....I know it doesn't mean he's going to go to USC, but for some reason the sight of it would make me feel woozy. She said meh and bought him the stroller right away. He played with it a bit then said meh. Then I said meh to any future bright ideas she had about the toys he'd love. Including the kitchen.

Well a few years too late I finally decided to get around to that kitchen stove that I had promised to build. Oh yeah, so the original plan was to buy a toy stove...but for some reason I just didn't want a giant plastic stove/kitchen. I was thinking it would be cool to have like a little Viking/Wolf stove. Must be the undeniable and incredible value of marketing in our society.

So I drew up some plans. Bought some plywood. And poof...Dadmagik.



For any Dads (or Moms) out there that like making stuff and don't already use pocket hole jigs, all I have to say is....Duuuuuuuuude(ette).



So it turns out the scale of the oven ended up a tad bigger than I thought.



I used cabinet hinges to allow the zero-clearance stovetop to open up for storage.



And they're off!



Enjoy kids...sorry it took me so long to get around to building it. Heck I waited so long to build this for my son that he now has a sister he's forced to share it with.

It also makes an awesome toybox.

Let me know if anyone wants to build their own stove. If enough people are interested I'll try and post detailed plans in a future post.