You know how little girls always dream of having one of those life size play houses? The ones made of plastic by Step Two or ?ELC costing up to a thousand Ringgit or more, depending?
Like this one? This one costs about 3k. Yup. And I’d get it if I could afford it and had the space but…..
First of all, I told T1 she was never going to own one of them because quite frankly, we don’t have the space for it. She’d accepted it and never asked although every time we passed one or if she’d played in one at a friend’s place, I could see how much joy she got out of it and how she wished she had her own too. *sigh, life is so hard, I kept teasing her*
Then I had an idea to upsell an idea I had to sort of make shift a ‘house’ per se that was self made and even more special than one of those commercially purchased houses and surprised her one day by moving some furniture around that stored her toys and voila, this is what we came up with. We huddled some furniture together to form a rectangle and got a huge piece of fabric from Ikea to make a roof that hung down partly as the entrance door.
We even put a fan in it so they wouldn’t overheat. Hah!
T1 loved it. And I think she loved it even more than the one above. It became her own house that Mommy and Daddy built with love. She spends a good hour or two in it every day now. Doing her own thing. God knows what she does in there but she loves being in her own ‘house’. It’s her own private space. She has her own bedroom but not even that brought such appeal.
Here, her sister, T2 instructs her to help her with a toy.
She’s not doing it right! So her babys ister squeals…..
Only to realise Mommy is watching so behave!
There you go. Our RM30 play house. It even has windows! And their own customised painted walls! A work in progress…..
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so..the mother is the main contractor! not bad… can do a house with just RM30.. hey, i remember last time when i was “small,” i also used to play “house” with my neighbours… now wondering why so fun leh…but i guess we really enjoyed then!! lol….
Eh. This is a good idea…not so “chor theng” like those huge plssticky ones!
I don’t know if Ikea still sell those foldable tents (in the children’s section).. that could be T2’s “house”, so each child has her own space! 😀 by the way, T2 is growing prettier! 🙂
being creative saves a lot of $$ and we have to be very very very creative !
WONDERFUL!!!!!