You can also use chalk to write “Lemonade” and prices on the chalkboard painted sign. Step 5: Decorate stand using printables from The Perfect Card. Place a lemonade stand printable inside and attach to the front of the stand using 3m outdoor tape. Step 4: Spray paint a 8 1/2 x 11 inch frame green. Paint the remaining stand using white exterior paint. You could also spray paint this board before attaching it to the lemonade stand posts. Step 3: Use painters tape and trash bags to cover around the 27 x 9 inch top board and spray paint with chalkboard paint. Nail the 27 x 9 inch board in front of the 48 inch long boards as shown in the photo. Step 2: Nail the 48 inch boards to the sides of the crate as shown in the photo. Step 1: Nail the 2 crates together, placing the 4 16.5 inch support boards inside the crafts in the 4 front corners. Lemonade Stand Printables (mine are from The Perfect Card) I know he’d love making a little change for his piggy bank! Oh and I highly recommend looking up “The Duck Song” on You Tube while creating this stand, you and your kiddos will get a good laugh!Ģ Unfinished Wood Crates (12.5 x 18 x 9 3/8 inches)Ģ 48 inch Long Boards (1 1/2 x 3/4 inches thick)Ĥ 16.4 inch Support Boards (1 1/2 x 3/4 inches thick) Once it cools down a bit here in 110 degree Arizona, I think we’ll sell lemonade during our community yard sales. This is apparently a fancy lemonade stand, way out of my price range. He takes my order, tells me it’ll be 20 bucks and asks me “cash or credit”. The crates were just the right size for him (he’s even on the tall side) and he has been having a blast using this stand for pretend play. For my summer project, I worked with my dad on building a DIY crate lemonade stand for my almost 3 year old. The camp counselors will take turns featuring a kid-friendly craft or activity each week on our own blogs and you can link up your own summer projects here (you might even be featured by Disney/Babble). The inspiration for this project came about because she wanted this Melissa and Doug Grocery Cart for her birthday (which was a couple of months before Christmas).I’m excited to be a virtual summer camp counselor, along with 7 other creative bloggers (Melissa from Mama Miss, Jenae from I Can Teach My Child, Lauren from Tutus & Tea Parties, Jodi from Meaningful Mama, Asia from Fun at Home with Kids, Megan from Coffee Cups and Crayons , Mari from Inspired by Familia), for Disney/Babble this year. I can’t tell you how many times I have eaten a wooden pizza washed down with a pretend gallon of milk. It was a hit! It continues to get a lot of use and the kids (even the big kids) enjoy playing with it. The paint was literally drying under the Christmas tree haha!īut all is good that ends well. The first night it was assembled and the second night (Christmas Eve) it was painted.
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We didn’t know how to keep it under wraps so it was literally thrown together in two nights. In true…DIYer fashion…this was a terribly last minute project. I added the iron-on words and recycle sign with some iron on material…or you could stencil it on. I made this with some felt and have plans to share with you the pattern here in an upcoming post. 'The idea of lemonade stands is not just to create a cute thing in the neighborhood, but it’s a way kids can go out and learn (and earn) things for. Of course we had to have a fun little kids sized grocery bag. Magazines best lemonade stand in America contest, Brodsky has seen everything from lemonade stands on wheels to stands that can make upwards of 300 in just one afternoon. The sign was made with some vinyl I cut on my cutting machine. You get to set up shop outside, make (and drink) loads of lemonade, and yell (with permission) to every. We simply attached the sign with some eyehooks. Lets be honest, its pretty darn hard to top the excitement of your first lemonade stand. We built a top section of the stand so that we could hang a “GROCERY” sign from the top…which is one of my favorite parts. We didn’t want to have to find the right size of basket AFTER it was built. We had the baskets beforehand and used them to determine how wide and deep to build the grocery stand. We have three flat shelves (including the top shelf) and then we tilted the 2nd shelf so that it was at an angle for the baskets. Instead of closing off the sides of the grocery stand, we left them open so that the design and expense was very minimal. We started out by building a basic shelf design. Still waiting on my camera that is going to be replacing the one that just broke. Once again…please excuse the bad cell phone pictures. I can’t believe I haven’t shared this with you yet (over a year ago), but nevertheless, here it is. So, Santa thought it would be a great idea to make a DIY Grocery Stand. With 4 older siblings, we just didn’t need ! We already had a bunch of “groceries” that the kids were playing with in their playroom, but didn’t have a fun way to store or display it. Last year (2012)for Christmas, Santa brought our youngest her very own Grocery Stand.
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