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Felt Fairy House Tutorial

What do you have when you combine a homemade toy and use repurposed, recycled items to create it? You have this charming felt fairy house which was put together using an old felted sweater and a lot ...

Zadie's Play Kitchen

We have another fabulous DIY play kitchen to share with you today. This one belongs to Zadie (remember her terrific room?) and rings up at under $70! Beth and her husband hit Ikea's "as is" sectio...

Lilliput Play Homes

We considered the entire garage our own playhouse growing up, but if buying or building a dedicated playhouse for your kids in on your list for the spring you'll certainly find plenty of inspiration...

Holiday Decorating Idea On the Cheap
Paper Crafts by Macula

And by cheap, we mean free. We've been careful not to accumulate too many holiday decorations since we have neither an attic or basement to stow them in the other 11 months of the year, but that do...

DragonDee's Modern Miniatures

No, you're not visiting Apartment Therapy -- you are looking at a meticulously made modern miniature created by DragonDee. How fantastic are these? We wish we were this handy. ...

Moustachio Madness!

Moustache's are HUGE right now. Everywhere you turn there's a stick, hat, glove, sock or whatever with a mustache on it. Believe you me, we're loving it and these new mustaches are great additions...

Kid Friendly Plush Microbes

It's flu season and we're all trying hard to keep our hands washed and our mouths covered, so the plush nature of these scientific "toys" seems like quite the contrast. It's not often you get to sa...

Toy Designer: Ben Blanc

We're always really excited about new and innovative toy designs.. I mean, who isn't? Especially when they're made out of recycled materials - that usually helps us justify buying yet another toy!...

Juice Box Boats

A picnic, playdate or party at our house usually results in several empty juice boxes. We've already showed you a great way to reuse your glass baby food jars. How about scheduling your own regatta ...

Felt Play House

Seeing this really brought back childhood memories. (Ms. McCarthy - are you out there?) Have you ever played with a felt board?...

Built-in Indoor Playhouse

Having space indoors for a playhouse is rare luxury. But some creative thinking made this beautiful indoor playhouse possible. Look closely - the playhouse is built-in....

Doctor's Kit

We never had one of our own, but many of our friends owned doctor's kits. All of us fought over the stethoscope and the syringe! Not only is it fun, a set of pretend medical accoutrement can help pr...

Good Idea: Felt Cut-Apart Food

The set of cut apart food we received as a Christmas gift is still a favorite in the house. It's made of wood and comes with a its own wooden knife. But after a few chops, our knife-wielding toddler...

Modern Toy: Baggu Penguin

The makers of the recycled, reusable grocery bags have taken their craft one step further. They're now introducing the Baggu Penguin; a soft, cuddly, 100% organic cotton new best friend for your ch...

Look! An Official IKEA Play Kitchen

To all you play kitchen lovers out there - we've seen lots of fabulous DIYs from our readers, many of which use IKEA parts and components. Well, a friend just alerted us to the fact that IKEA has its...

Animated T-Rex

The fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex, sometimes referred to as "Dinosaur Rex," is a favorite in our house. So we're always on the look out for a T-Rex inspired toy, t-shirt, artwork, book, etc. This animate...

Alexander Girard House Industries

click thumbnails for larger picsOn the list of great design featured in Dwell's June issue was the Alexander Girard memory game (shown above). Poking around the House Industries' website, the selecti...

En Gry & Sif

click thumbnails for larger pics It's fair to say that we are completely enamored with this Danish company. Not only are all of their designs just lovely, (think handmade, soft felted wool objects)...

Walking Elephant by Plan Toys

A rocking horse (or rabbit, or moose) is a great toy, worth the space it occupies, for young ones to get a sense of movement and balance. There certainly are some great ones to choose from but this W...

Cardboard Rocking Horse

The cardboard-as-furniture and playhouse trend seems to be enduring, and for good reason. It's recyclable (and often recycled), lightweight, inexpensive, durable and can be flatpacked for easy storag...

Gabby's Pink Play Kitchen

Hungry for pie? So are we after catching a glimpse of the hot cherry (rhubarb? strawberry?) pie Gabby is baking up in the play kitchen her parents made for her. ...

Burley d'lite Bike Trailer

The warming trend has us daydreaming about vacations, picnics and outdoor activities. To get into the mood, we splurged on a Burley d'lite bike trailer. After talking it over with friends, we decide...

Play Kitchen with Brick Backsplash

Little girls want to be just like their moms, so this mom used her own kitchen as the model for this play kitchen. ...

Julia's Play Kitchen

We're still drooling over the incredible creativity of our readers when it comes to play kitchens. So many of you have hacked different furniture pieces, toys and household items to put together a fu...

Little Playhouse I

We received an email from Waibun introducing us to his cardboard playhouse. He told us: I designed it for my son out of some cardboard boxes from the gifts we got from his baby shower/christmas/birth...

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