Friday, January 20, 2012

Homemade Lego Table

We had so much fun making this Lego Table for my 4-year old and she plays with it EVERY day :-)
First, I found an old round coffee table at a garage sale for $10.  It was seriously ugly but it was low to the ground (pre-schooler height) and had drawers....yay for lego storage!

We primed the entire table then painted it black, sounds simple but it did take a while.  Then we took off the old ugly hardware and replaced it with plain drawer pulls that I painted black and then painted cute little designs on.
Then we adhered 7 lego mats....2 blue ones for water, 4 green ones and one more green one cut in half to make it lay out evenly on the table.  In between the mats, we wanted to make roads so the little Lego vehicles and Matchbox cars could drive around.  We were going to paint them but thought it might be difficult to get everything exact so we ended up using pieces of white and yellow electrical tape to make the roads.

It turned out great and she really does love it!  It is so fun to see how imaginative she gets with building the legos and then making up stories of what is happening on each of the mats.  Fun :-)

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