#DIY #Rural #Homemade #Playground #Kids #Kitchenette #MUDKITCHEN
I made a video last season (Season 7), detailing how I made a mud kitchen for the WHRL Milbridge Commons Health and Wellness Park for the kiddos. Back then, I called it a “Kiddy Playground Kitchenette” and here is the link to that video if you are interested: https://youtu.be/F-BqvBUSTZc
I volunteered to build this pair mud kitchens for Women for Healthy Rural Living (WHRL) and here is the link: https://whrl.org
These mud kitchens were made from white cedar decking material purchased from Lowes. There are many similar variations of these mud kitchens available online. In fact, the inspiration for this one came from several pictures that were printed and handed to me with the instructions: “We’d like something like this!” The mud kitchen I came up with is 4’ wide, 2’ deep, and 2’ high at the countertop. The back board at the rear is approximately 42” high and will feature several stainless-steel hooks from which pots, pans, and utensils may be hung. The wood knobs turn, and the wooden “burners” are stationary as they would be if they were real. Assembly was performed with 2” exterior deck screws. The plugs that fill in the screw holes and trimmed flush were made with a couple of 3/8” dowels cut down into plugs with my bandsaw. The plugs were glued into place with Titebond III waterproof wood glue.
I made a pair of these as a volunteer for “Women for Healthy Rural Living” (WHRL), a local non-profit organization. They will both be up for grabs during the annual “Milbridge Days” celebration (last Saturday in July) as part of the WHRL fund raiser. One of the mud kitchens will be in the silent auction (which shall also be online – check the www.WHRL.org website for more details), and the other mud kitchen will be part of a raffle (one dollar per ticket).
If you would like to have a drawing of this mud kitchen so you can build one yourself, I would be happy to email you a copy in pdf format in exchange for a donation of $5.00(US) or more through PayPal and the PayPal donation link is on my web site: https://www.downeastthunder.com/ The drawing shows three dimensions for the basic mud kitchen structure with basic dimensions and a materials list. Your donations help to keep these projects going which benefit WHRL programs and fund raising efforts.
Here’s the video:
