how to make a children's table
Children's tables and chairs have many benefits and are a great addition to a child's room. Every child loves his own furniture that suits him, where he can do what he loves and which he can call his own. , making a children's table with your own hands is easier than making an adult table - it is small in size and assembly is usually simple. On the other hand making tables and chairs for children is a big responsibility. We often forget how unpredictable children can be, and they certainly won't sit quietly and obediently at the table. Therefore, children's tables and chairs for children are not just furniture, but a risk zone. The 15 examples of children's tables and chairs presented in this article were made by hand, taking into account all the features of children's furniture. If you're ready to start your project, this information will be helpful.
What materials can it be made from?
Depending on the purpose of the children's product, it can be made from:
- Natural solid wood.
- Plywood.
- Chipboard or MDF boards.
Also, foam rubber sheets, dermantin, oilcloth or thick fabric can be used as additional materials. High chairs for feeding babies are especially often covered with such fabric or oilcloth fabrics.
Sometimes children's furniture is covered with additional materials.
Naturally, it is better to create children's furniture from more expensive materials, the quality of which is higher. This is definitely a tree, and a hard one at that. But softer types of wood, such as pine, for example, are also suitable for a high chair and table for a child.
It is best to make children's furniture from natural wood.
But various other types of materials can be used along with them. Although, in this regard, there is an important recommendation - to take only those that can be checked for quality from the manufacturer itself. Only these have a standard certificate indicating that the materials do not emit toxic substances. Otherwise, during operation, toxic elements will constantly be released into the room, which will negatively affect the baby’s health.
Care should be taken to ensure that other materials do not release toxic substances.
Always remember that the cheaper the material, the higher the chances that it is of poor quality.
What is the desk for at home?
The main characteristic of a school desk is that the tabletop is tilted, adapting to the characteristics of the student’s body, which is individual, helping him to develop correctly without health problems in the future, such as, for example, stoop or scoliosis.
The tabletop is mounted on frames at an angle of up to 20°.
Ordinary tables do not have such functionality, so the child is most often in an uncomfortable position, which leads to deterioration of health - disruption of posture and the functioning of internal organs.
A school desk should be ergonomic.
A desk equipped with an additional storage system will also allow you to store educational supplies, freeing you from the need to purchase separate shelves or cabinets.
Desk refers to furniture used as functional orthopedic student furniture.
If the children's room is small and difficulties arise when arranging furniture, a transforming desk, the position of which can be adjusted, or a folding model will suit you.
Drawings and diagrams of a high chair with a table
Before you start making furniture products yourself, you need to prepare a detailed drawing, which should include all dimensions. A short diagram will not work in this case - only experienced carpenters can make a wooden chair and table using it.
For everyone else, before making a children's table and table with your own hands, you must either select detailed drawings or complete them yourself, taking into account the anthropometric data of the dimensions of the child's body, taking into account age.
Advantages
In addition to the desire to make furniture on your own, you need to have a special tool and some skills.
If you have everything, then you can start making a table for a schoolchild. The advantages of making furniture items yourself include:
- saving money;
- the ability to make furniture of any design, size and shape;
- independent selection of consumables.
What size should it be?
It is important to remember that a children's furniture set must meet the following conditions:
- Be completely safe - therefore, you need to attach the elements securely, avoid sharp corners and rough surfaces.
- The child should be able to sit comfortably at the table and table. It is important to consider that changing body size will require changing the design after a certain period of time.
Children's furniture should be comfortable and safe.
In this connection, an essential subtlety in making the right homemade furniture is maintaining certain dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the child’s body at a certain age.
So, you should listen to the following instructions:
- For a child whose height has reached 1 m, the height of the chair should be 26 cm, and the height of the table top should be 46 cm. As a rule, these parameters are suitable for a child aged 3 to 5 years.
- The second height group, when height ranges from 115 to 130 cm, the height of the seat of a chair or stool should be 40 cm, and the height of the table 52 cm.
- If we talk about a high chair, then in this case the height will depend on the surface to which it will be installed.
Most often, this parameter has a value in the range from 350 mm to 527 mm. Everything will depend on the design option. At the same time, a perfect modern high chair should not only have the correct overall dimensions, but also be completely safe. Among its elements there should be a folding small table; it is quite problematic to do without it when feeding. Therefore, it is worth thinking about it immediately.
It is important to understand from the presented dimensions that you will have to remake children's furniture every 2 years. This is due to the rapid growth of the child.
The only way to avoid this is to make transformable furniture, which will adapt to the growing size of the child over a longer period of time.
Transformable furniture can be changed to suit the parameters of a growing child.
Tools
- Screwdriver. Power tool for tightening screws. Mobile due to the absence of a wire and powerful enough to make holes of small diameter. Screwdriver
- Self-tapping screws 3.5 x 19 mm. Necessary for connecting desk parts together. Unlike furniture nails, they do not allow connections to become loose. Wood screw
- Putty knife. A tool for evenly distributing paint over a surface.
Paint spatula - Short pile roller. Allows you to quickly and evenly paint vertical and horizontal surfaces. Short nap roller
- 600 grit sandpaper. Used for final sanding of parts.
Sandpaper - Masking tape. Limits the area of the part to be painted, preventing paint from getting onto other elements. Masking tape
- Jigsaw. Tool for cutting parts from wooden panels. Allows you to adjust the cutting direction as you work. Electric jigsaw
Choice of color and decor
An important factor is the selection of the right design and color scheme. Here, first of all, pay attention to:
- Gender of the child – for a girl, light shades of warm colors are suitable. A selection of pastel colors will help determine the final result.
- For boys, you should prefer cool shades or warm colors of greenery.
As for the design itself, the choice of ideas here is small. Most often they choose from two types:
- Classic design - it is often a wooden product constructed from individual beams and slats that have linear shapes or carved elements.
- Modern types of products - in this case, a stool, table or chair should have a unique appearance that will be more unusual. True, to make it you will most likely have to resort to more complex templates.
To choose the right model, it is worth considering a selection of children's products.
Stage 5: Bench
Turn the table upside down. To attach the bench support it will be convenient to use scraps of boards, as can be seen in the photo. We fasten 4 screws to each of the legs, I recommend distributing the screws as shown in the photo.
Table manufacturing process
In order not to make a mistake when making a table, you should follow a certain plan:
- First, a review of existing structures is carried out. This is done with one main goal - to choose the most suitable product in terms of shape and functionality.
- Then, in accordance with the available dimensions and drawings, purchase the necessary materials.
- Prepare the necessary tools - a saw, a hammer, a plane, self-tapping screws, screws, angles for fastening perpendicular elements, as well as a number of measuring tools.
- Then make blanks in accordance with the existing dimensions of the drawing.
- Process them, first with a plane, then sand them so that they become as smooth as possible if the structure is made of solid wooden beams.
- Then fasten the elements together in accordance with the chosen pattern. It should be remembered that fixation must be carried out simultaneously with glue and self-tapping screws to ensure reliable fixation.
Thus, to make a table and a children's high chair with your own hands - drawings, dimensions, diagrams - are indispensable when working. Further, it will only be a matter of quality and thoroughness of development.
conclusions
Making a table will not take much time and effort. Follow the recommendations of specialists, take into account the features of the product. Select the material - it is best to choose wood.
A homemade product will become a source of pride, in no way inferior to a purchased table.
Examples of design of children's tables and chairs
Collapsible
A collapsible easel is created from wood, bolted together with wings so that they can be easily unscrewed and screwed back together when needed.
To make it, a person must take the following steps:
- Prepare a beam 40x20x170 mm, a piano hinge, bolts 6x50 mm, wings - 5 pieces.
- At a distance of 25, 35, 45, 55, 65 cm, make holes on two bars. They will be needed to attach the frame that will hold the canvas and determine its dimensions.
- Make holes on three bars at a distance of 25 cm from the top and attach a 40 cm beam to them. This beam should also be attached to the rear leg with a piano loop. This will make it collapsible in addition to being collapsible.
- The bolts on the rear side are tightened with wings for easy assembly and disassembly.
- The bottom strip is attached to one of the holes made on the bottom of the supports.
- Now the artist can place his canvas on the easel and start creating.
Such an easel can be placed in the far corner of the room and covered with a cloth if there is no need to use it. Or put it on the mezzanine of the closet. Collapsible parts and dimensions allow you to do whatever you want with it.
All of the easels presented above, which you can make yourself using drawings with dimensions, are extremely simple and versatile. By adding certain components to them, you can get an upgraded, portable or stationary easel. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment.
Article design: Natalie Podolskaya
Do-it-yourself baby high chair – which is easier to make or buy?
And now, having sweated and finally made it, let’s ask ourselves a question: is it easier to make a highchair for children with your own hands or buy it? Today, most parents don't bother. And they just go to the store and buy the chair they like. In general, this is justified. Of course, if you buy ready-made material and make the chair yourself, you can save money. Moreover, if you consider that folding wooden chairs from well-known manufacturers today are not cheap. However, an ordinary purchased wooden transformer is comparable in price to a hand-made folding chair. Therefore, if the question is what is easier: to make it yourself or buy it, then the answer is clear - it’s easier to buy it.
It’s another matter if you like to do everything yourself, this question will no longer arise. In addition, if you often make something, then you will probably have a large supply of building materials. Then you won’t have to spend a lot of money, but only clear away years of rubble, which is also not bad.
Ultimately, you yourself will decide what is preferable for you, but I would like to tell beginners: any dad can make a simple folding wooden baby high chair for feeding with his own hands. You don't need to be a professional carpenter to do this.
