Toys - making accessories

Rustic fence

Toys are expensive. As much as we'd all love to buy our kids full sets of things sometimes it's just out of the question. Here are a couple of things we've made to accessorise our little man's toys. Small fences to go with his farm and scenic boards to put his toy animals/cars/trains etc on.

Sanding down the sticks

Glue gunning the lolly sticks on

The fences and gates are very simple. While out enjoying a walk we gathered some sticks. We sawed the sticks to similar lengths and sanded them down (our guy loved having a go at sanding)! Then we glued lolly sticks onto the sanded sticks to make the panels, then the fences are ready (sometimes a lolly stick needs to be glued to the bottom of the fence to stabilise it). 

The scenic boards are made using a piece of cardboard and some material. I used felt for the farm animals board accommodating a muddy area for the pig to roll in! We have used plenty of TNT which is really cheap and works very well for these boards. Sometimes we just lay some material over the coffee table and play there which is a quick way to create scenes and can be changed to suit the game.