My nearly-2 year old daughter loves to garden -- both digging in real dirt and pretending to garden inside. I wanted to make her a playscape where she could imagine herself a gardener.
I built this on an old cookie sheet, painted white. The ground is two layers of felt, sewn and cut so that the "pumpkin seeds" can be slid in between the layers and "planted".
There are three flowers with magnets at the bottom of the stems, three pieces of fence, two wooden mice with felt ears, and a "hollow log" (a wooden pencil holder with the bottom cut off, stained). There's a watering can with ribbon run through the holes. The finishing touch is a little fairy I got from a seller on Etsy.
Everything (except the fairy) holds on pretty strongly (you can turn it upside down CAREFULLY without losing anything), but it's easy enough to move them around.
I'm tucking this away for her birthday in a few weeks, hope the reaction is good!
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I built this on an old cookie sheet, painted white. The ground is two layers of felt, sewn and cut so that the "pumpkin seeds" can be slid in between the layers and "planted".
There are three flowers with magnets at the bottom of the stems, three pieces of fence, two wooden mice with felt ears, and a "hollow log" (a wooden pencil holder with the bottom cut off, stained). There's a watering can with ribbon run through the holes. The finishing touch is a little fairy I got from a seller on Etsy.
Everything (except the fairy) holds on pretty strongly (you can turn it upside down CAREFULLY without losing anything), but it's easy enough to move them around.
I'm tucking this away for her birthday in a few weeks, hope the reaction is good!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0yVkn99UQ-...0/IMG_0145.JPG
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0yVkn99UQ-.../s400/IMG_0147
Beautiful.
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